What is wrong with America?

If you’re devout enough to take offense at the act of merely physically handing out a prescription drug you consider disagreeable… well, then maybe you should have used your religious liberty to think through the religious implications of your chosen profession before choosing it.

The government is not forcing anyone to become a pharmacist or health care provider. Thus, requiring that people who choose to enter these publicly important (and historically state-regulated) positions perform their duties on an equally accessible basis does not violate their “religious liberty” in the least.

Typical of the Religious Right to sell their propaganda with a line that sounds worthy of concern, but isn’t actually supported by the facts at hand. (Of COURSE religious liberty is important, like any other liberty – but is it REALLY burdened here?)

>By Jaspal Singh

IPOH, MALAYSIA: HIV carriers must never be allowed to marry, says Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.

Echoing the controversial views of Perak Mufti Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria, Nizar said those who were infected with HIV should instead be quarantined and everything should be done to treat them.

Three years ago, Harussani had caused an uproar when he proposed that HIV/AIDS carriers should be quarantined in an isolated place, such as an island, to ensure that they did not infect others.

“Allowing this (marriage involving HIV carriers) is very unfair.

“Somebody who is very sick like that should not be allowed to get married,” Nizar said after meeting mosque officials at his residence here yesterday.

He said this when asked to comment on the statement by Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) director-general Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz that those who tested positive for HIV would still be allowed to marry.

Last Friday, Wan Mohamad was reported as saying that HIV carriers would receive counselling on the preventive measures that they should take.

Nizar said while it was bad enough to allow an HIV carrier to marry a non-HIV carrier, it was even worse if both partners were HIV carriers.

“If there’s any breeding, sorry for having to use that word, the embryo will also carry the same virus. So, that is even more unfair because you are actually passing that disease on to the child. It is very unjust to the child.”

When a reporter suggested that HIV-infected couples could get married but abstain from sexual intercourse, Nizar retorted: “How is that a marriage then? Obviously they will indulge in sexual intercourse.

“We don’t know what will happen. They are legally married… anything can happen. So if there’s a child, what happens?”

Nizar also disagreed that HIV carriers should be allowed to marry so that they could care for each other emotionally and physically and lead a normal life.

“Once a person is confirmed as an HIV carrier, it is difficult for him or her to lead a normal life.

“But, if the government insists on allowing HIV couples to marry, then a thorough review should be carried out.

“Until and unless that is done, to allow such marriages would be a gross error,” he said, adding that it was pointless to screen couples for HIV infection if those who were infected were allowed to get married.

If there’s any breeding, sorry for having to use that word, the embryo will also carry the same virus. It is very unjust to the child.’

How is that a marriage then? Obviously they will indulge in sexual intercourse. They are legally married… anything can happen.’

Do you realize what this means? Do you really understand how many of us gay people are in health care inside of America? If they don’t want to help us, guess what? By this law: We don’t have to give the “Bushies/ religious hypocrites” their meds, wipe their bottoms, feed them, come to their homes in our ambulances, give them aid, or heart surgery if it offends our belief system. If they want to get the Darwin Award for supporting this Law more power to them.

Let Jesus give them their meds or change their poopy pants. Need air? too bad! After all Jesus said “doctor heal yourself.” So let them heal themselves. I keep hearing they think prayer solves everything. As they say in Missouri: “Show Me.”

Remember it was a gay man (John Watson) that help figured out DNA, and that lead to getting bacteria to make human insulin. Maybe insulin or any type of genetic generated medicine should not be allowed sold to anyone who hates gays. As stupid as it sounds it would solve a lot of problems.

It’s like President Bush trying to get rid of Medicaid or Social Security. The Republicans and the Social Conservatives will come out of the wood work screaming “don’t you dare take our (communistic welfare- that’s what they call it when they don’t like it) endowments out of cold dying hands.” They will say the same thing when this law turns around and bites them.

This regulation could mean that I could be denied getting testosterone supplement because I could get an erection and have “gay sex” which is against their religious beliefs. So my prescription wouldn’t be filled. Now that I am loosing muscle mass due to the low Test.levels, sex has nothing to do with it. PharmD are not MD and do not know the medical consequences of denial of medications. The Hippocratic oath will be ignored in favor of intolerance under the guise of federal regulations. But Mr Bush is acting not as president but as moral arbitrator, i.e. who proceeds at his own discretion, of the country. He has issued just another of divisive regulation,without care for its consequences.

PLEASE complain to your Congressman and 2 US Senators against this horrendous EDICT. Without your input to congress, George Bush stick it to the LGBT community one last time. There is less than 30 day before he is out of control, but overthrowing a regulation in place requires a law and the religious right will do everything against us.

Wake up.

We’re lucky they havn’t started the camps yet.