Bush vs. Harper...
It is very interesting to note that George Bush mentioned the significance of the gay community in his remarks on World AIDs Day.
Yet America still sees an estimated 40,000 new infections each year. This is not inevitable—and it's not acceptable. HIV/AIDS remains a special concern in the gay community, which has effectively fought this disease for decades through education and prevention. And the demographics of this disease continue to change. AIDS is increasingly found among women and minorities. Nearly half of the new infections are found in the African-American community.However, Stephen Harper, in his AIDs Day remarks, said nothing about the gay community.
posted by GayandRight @ 10:09 PM
3 Comments:
Thank God he didn't mention the gay community when talking about AIDS. Had he done that, it'd be a good two weeks of Paul Martin tell us about how much Harper hates gays and thinks that all homosexuals are infected. We need as few misteps as possible right now.
Yeah,
I'm not going to criticize Harper for that. He's shown he's not the world's best communicator (and I'm still convinced his communications TEAM is secretly working for the Liberals) so I don't think he could have pulled off a reference to the gay community without causing himself a lot of problems.
Still, interesting to think of Bush as a better speaker than Harper!
:-)
(Just kidding)
I am not going to second-guess Stephen Harper's reason for not mentioning the gay community, although his past statements on gays came very close to being homophobic. I can understand why many right wing gays would be uncomfortable voting Conservative.
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