Anti-Holsinger Campaign Builds

More information is coming to light about the past of Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger as steam builds in the campaign to oppose his nomination. Kids, Dubya has really out-twatted himself with this homophobic, unscientific, Christer nutjob.

Kentucky.com: “In 1991, Dr. James W. Holsinger — a University of Kentucky professor who is President Bush’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general — wrote a paper arguing that gay sex is biologically unnatural and unhealthy.

Like male and female pipe fittings, certain male and female body parts are designed for each other, Holsinger wrote in a paper prepared for a United Methodist Church committee studying homosexuality. “When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur,” Holsinger wrote in the paper, titled Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality.”

Gabrielle Rotello on Huffington Post: “I guess it’s no big surprise that our lame duck, brain dead president would nominate an outspoken ‘phobe to be the top doctor of a nation where gays and lesbians pay taxes like anybody else. And a nation still in the midst of an AIDS epidemic and a host of other health issues affecting lesbians and gay men.”

Ronald Jackson, deputy director of AIDS Action: “Dr. Holsinger has a track record of anti-gay sentiments. We feel that his views on homosexuality will infuse and guide his policies and direction as surgeon general.”

Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force: “With the nomination of Dr. Holsinger, the Bush administration is once again elevating ideology over public policy and once again throwing red meat to its ravenous anti-gay supporters. Dr. Holsinger’s record shows that his own biases will not allow him to look objectively at scientific information. Consequently, he is not qualified to be Surgeon General and we call upon the Senate to promptly reject his nomination.”

Bible Belt Blogger: Gay sex, he (Holsinger) warned, can lead to “lacerations, perforations and deaths…The anatomic and physiologic facts of alimentation and reproduction simply do not change based on any cultural setting. In fact, the logical complementarity of the human sexes has been so recognized in our culture that it has entered our vocabulary in the form of naming various pipe fittings either the male fitting or the female fitting depending upon which one interlocks within the other. When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur as noted above.”
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