Posted on 12/10/2007 1:59:41 AM PST by america4vr
Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."
As a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, Huckabee answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press. Besides a quarantine, Huckabee suggested that Hollywood celebrities fund AIDS research from their own pockets, rather than federal health agencies.
Huckabee said Saturday that his comments came at a time when the public was still learning about HIV and AIDS and promised to do "everything possible to transform the promise of a vaccine and a cure into reality."
In 1992, Huckabee wrote, "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."
"It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."
The AP submitted the questionnaire to both candidates in the 1992 senate race; only Huckabee responded. Incumbent Sen. Dale Bumpers won his fourth term; Huckabee was elected lieutenant governor the next year and became governor in 1996.
When asked about AIDS research in 1992, Huckabee complained that AIDS research received an unfair share of federal dollars when compared to cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
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If you are a doctor or millionaire or maybe and engineer you may or may not be allowed to live and work in the U.S.
BUT if you have aids and come here and say you are persecuted in whatever craphole you came from you are encouraged to stay in the U.S. for the remainder of your life.
Just because you have aids.
GREAT.
Yes, news reporters report this as if it were a bad thing.
I am a nurse, and I left my job because I worked with aids patients. My husband did not want an infected wife. I would prefer a world where aids is not such a risk for everyone.
Paid for with a tax on homosexuals.
This story made me like Huckabee a lot more, at first. Then I saw he’s distancing himself from those positions, which means he’s not brave at all, but a coward, and that in the end made me like him even less than I had before.
I guess this is a little more truth than liberals can handle.
I think that's what Duncan Hunter is counting on.
That is still the only sane approach and might have severely limited the spread of the disease if it had been in practice from the beginning. But, alas! quarantining homosexuals is Unconstitutional.
On what basis do you deem it unconstitutional?
The current ACLU interpretation of the Constitution under which the country seems to be effectively operating. The one that sets homosexuals aside as special persons with special rights, an official Elite, as it were.
I don’t recall hearing any objections to using isolation to control leprosy, either.
Nope. That might fly for, say, 1986, but in 1992 the transmission of AIDS was understood about as well as it is now. I remember we had a presentation at school about it no later than 1990 that was generally accurate. The main difference was probably that we regarded it as lethal within ten years or so, whereas now there are treatments.
Imagine the millions of lives that would have been saved if someone had the balls to quarantine those with AIDS when the virus was first identified. Of course, not having anonymous anal sex with multiple partners would help as well....
First sensible thing I’ve heard about his past positions in some time.
No one can claim they are being isolated based on their sexuality proclivity. it was a matter of a definitive marker in their blood that would have determined whether or not they were to be segregated, if/when it would have come to that.
Homosexuals who didn't prove positive, would NOT have been isolated, I'm very confident to say.
There are other issues to consider, that is, the nature of vaginal sex not to very much prone to
spreading the virus which is primarily infected via blood during when the female isn't menstruating,
as the female anatomy is designed away from any major blood vessels, whereas anal sex is particularly vulnerable to contact with blood as major blood vessels are located in and around the
(hemmorhoidal inflammation/bleeding)would deem such acts highly dangerous.
It might have been known to doctors, but it wasn't widely accepted yet by the public. Here's a quote from Wikipedia, about the retirement of Magic Johnson from the NBA after discovering he was HIV-positive. Note the dates:
"Nonetheless, Johnson was still voted into the 1992 All-Star Game, and the press speculated whether he was going to make a comeback. Moreover, many colleagues were wary: as HIV can be transmitted by blood contamination, they argued that Johnson would be a deadly risk if he suffered a bleeding wound while on court..."
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Isn’t the “blood rule” still in effect for both the NBA and the NCAA?
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