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Under Fire, Conservative Withdraws From AIDS Council (New York Times)

Jerry Thacker, a Christian conservative who has called AIDS the gay plague, withdrew his nomination to the Presidential Advisory Council on H.I.V. and AIDS today ...

Earlier: AIDS Panel Choice Wrote of a 'Gay Plague' (Washington Post & Atrios)

The Bush administration has chosen Jerry Thacker, a Pennsylvania marketing consultant who has characterized AIDS as the "gay plague," to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS.

Next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson is scheduled to swear in several new commission members. They include Thacker, a former Bob Jones University employee, who says he contracted the AIDS virus after his wife was infected through a blood transfusion.

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In his speeches and writings on his Web site and elsewhere, Thacker has described homosexuality as a "deathstyle" rather than a lifestyle and asserted that "Christ can rescue the homosexual."

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posted by Quiddity at 1/24/2003 03:04:00 AM