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Ryan White's Mother Still Trying To Meet With Mike Huckabee
For the second time, Jeanne White-Ginder, represented by the Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Institute, has sent a letter to presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, asking him to meet with White-Ginder, the mother of Ryan White. White, at age 13, was diagnosed with AIDS and expelled from his school twenty-three years ago, and his case came to national attention. He died in 1990 at the age of 18.
White-Ginder, HRC and the AIDS Institute are interested in talking with Huckabee because of comments he made in 1992, when he said that people with AIDS should be isolated, even though it was an established fact that the syndrome could not be spread through casual contact. Just three days ago, the former Arkansas governor said that he stands by his belief that AIDS patients and individuals carrying HIV should be isolated.
The letter states: "We look forward to discussing our experiences and personal insight with you and your campaign. This was not and is not an issue of ‘political correctness,’ as you have stated previously. Rather, this is an issue of valuing science-based evidence over unfounded fear or prejudice."
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Huamn Rights activists are all leftists. You people should stop disturbing the poor mother of that aids victim. If you want to stop aids, stop fooling around with anybody who's not your husband. That's the only solution and start preaching it. Human rights activists usually have low IQs. Do you want me to repeat it? BE MONOGAMOUS.
Posted by: spiderman2 on 12/12/07 at 9:18 PM Respond
Are you really that ignorant? I am a human rights activist but I am not a leftist. I also think I have a higher IQ than you. Also, I am a Catholic but I do not impose my religion on other people. So, please leave your preaching in the church.
Posted by: Reyes on 12/12/07 at 10:21 PM Respond
Tragic that Huckabee actually is even being listened to at all with such ignorant views. You know off camera he would probably take it a step further: people have AIDS because society doesn't isolate 'the gays'. 'They should be taken to an island somewhere to die,' might be his private sentiments. Actually, it's funny that a former preacher who personally owes his votes to his homey, God, should not know how Jesus felt about the abuse of lepers. He's a creep with lots of followers. We'll call them creepers.
Posted by: Paul Miller on 12/13/07 at 3:10 AM Respond
Paul Miller,
Can you feel the love?
Posted by: capt on 12/13/07 at 7:23 AM Respond
"Just three days ago, the former Arkansas governor said that he stands by his belief that AIDS patients and individuals carrying HIV should be isolated."
Uhm, no he didn't say that. Did you even bother to read the story or watch the video?
Posted by: Barry on 12/13/07 at 8:04 AM Respond
spiderman2-- get your facts straight. Ryan White was a 13 year old who contracted HIV through a transfusion of tainted blood. He wasn't "fooling around" with anyone.
Posted by: rowdydog_tx on 12/13/07 at 8:54 AM Respond
Barry, if you want to be a literalist, no, he did not say the same WORDS, but he said the same THING, and tried to cover it up with an acknowledgment (or sorts) that he would say it a bit differently if he had to say it again. Nothing he said on Fox would give anyone any reason whatsoever to think he had changed his mind.
Posted by: Diane on 12/13/07 at 1:09 PM Respond
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