Surgeon General's Warning: Homosexuality is Hazardous to Your Health
That's what the will be the twisted message to Americans from the government's top doc if George W. Bush gets his way and the Senate actually confirms Bush's homo-hating nominee for surgeon general, James W. Holsinger. This guy, an official in the Methodist Church, and his wife founded a church that believes gays can be converted to heterosexuality, and obviously thinks this kind of junk science is medically sound, in addition to being the moral and right thing to do:
Calhoun, a United Methodist pastor, noted that Holsinger and his wife, Barbara, were members of Lexington's First United Methodist Church, which asked them to set out and start a new congregation.
They founded Hope Springs Community Church in a warehouse at 1109 Versailles Road. Calhoun called it a socially diverse congregation with a "very vital recovery ministry." It serves the homeless and those with addictions to drugs, alcohol and sex; and it has a Spanish-language Hispanic congregation with its own pastor.
"It's built around compassion for people who struggle with a lot of issues," he said.
Hope Springs also ministers to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian, Calhoun said.
"We see that as an issue not of orientation but of lifestyle," he said. "We have people who seek to walk out of that lifestyle."
This may be yet another Rove scheme to put the Democratic presidential candidates on the defensive on the issue of homosexuality, and we all know they've not had a good track record. Perhaps he saw blood in the water when Hillary and Obama stayed mum for a while when General Pace called homosexuality "immoral" (and on that basis saw a reason to ban gays from the military):
A date has not been announced for confirmation hearings for Holsinger's appointment. He will go before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. Three Democrats on the committee are presidential candidates: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, a graduate of the University of Louisville law school. The GOP members include Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. Kentucky's senators, Republicans Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning, are not on the committee.
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