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LITTLE ROCK - Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders says presidential nominee Dr. James Holsinger's views on homosexuality should not matter but how he squares those views with the job of promoting "a sexually healthy nation" should. "It would be very difficult for me to feel that this is the person that we should be confirming in this day and time with all the problems we have, related to sexual health," Elders told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Holsinger, a Kentucky cardiologist nominated to the surgeon general post by President Bush last month, has come under fire from gay rights groups for...