Comments on: PEPFAR Coordinator: Don’t Link Uganda Funding To Anti-Homosexuality Act

By: sammyseattle

sammyseattle — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:09:32 +0000

Exactly what does Mr. Goosby mean by “the movement of the virus into the general population” ? It is my understanding that unlike in the US, HIV is already a affecting the “general population”.

By: Joehio

Joehio — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:06:21 +0000

The Obama administration IS worse than the Bush administration for LGBTs. I never thought I’d say that, but this is the last straw. I suspect some of these creepy members of “the Family” are actually part of the current administration and Democratic leadership, as we know Stupak and Pitts in fact are. Another thing I never thought I would say: If the “Draft Cheney” people succeed in getting Dick Cheney on the Republican ticket for 2012, I will be voting for Cheney against Obama. Hopefully there will be a primary challenge within the Democratic party, or some credible third party candidates, to give me a more palatable set of options.

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:01:33 +0000

I have two major issues with PEPFAR funding in Uganda.

One centers on whether providing these funds is luring gay people to treatment centers where they could be compromised, arrested and executed for being gay and HIV positive (this assumes passage of the proposed legislation-which isn’t at all certain). The US government cannot under any circumstances justify providing the inducement to lure Ugandans to their death.

The second bigger question has to do with our involvement in Uganda. Sen Inhofe and “The Family” have been directing funds to this country. I worry that these funds have not been directed to organizations doing good work, but instead to organizations aligned with the dictator, Mouseveni, and furthering the interests of The Family over the interests of the United States and the Ugandan people.

I think that the Inspector General’s Office should do a detailed investigation of the funds, the recipients, the programs, the costs, the corruption and the gains that have or have not been realized. I do not want the US Government coffers being used for the personal pet projects of Sen. Inhofe and his Family.

By: Mike Airhart, TWO

Mike Airhart, TWO — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:58:58 +0000

Hillary Clinton is Goosby’s boss. I think the order to defend Uganda’s funding had to come from her office.

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By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:04:59 +0000

I had to read that tortured second paragraph 3 times to make sense of it.

So an administration official is basically saying the only legitimate reason for him to oppose these draconian laws is that they might impede some peoples access to HIV treatment and prevention? Other than that, he, as an Obama administration official and someone with a public health background has no ethical/moral point of view on the criminalization of homosexuality. None. His job is to just distribute condoms and drugs.

I can understand—up to a point— the lack of fortitude on issues like marriage and DADT, but now we can’t can’t even expect a clear denunciation of blatant thuggery and malice?

I’ll be e-mailing my senators and congressman, all democrats, before the weekend is out.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:32:33 +0000

This guy makes not even the vaguest condemnation of Uganda’s being poised to make homosexuality a capital crime.

I am really beginning to wonder if Obama and his people aren’t worse than Bush. As much as a couldn’t stand Bush, I at least got the feeling that he was only engaging in anti-gay politics for political reasons, and even then half-heartedly.

I see Obama engaging in pro-gay rhetoric entirely for political reasons and then giving us the shaft in every way possible, and so unapologetically that I think they do it with glee.