Bush's Surgeon General nominee wrote paper called "Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality"

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Wed Jun-06-07 05:41 PM
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Bush's Surgeon General nominee wrote paper called "Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality"

Bush's new Surgeon General is a Bible-thumper with a degree in biblical studies and a fascination with gay anal sex...

{Bush Surgeon General nominees} James Holsinger is to medicine what Alberto Gonzales is to Justice...
http://www.blogactive.com/2007/06/wayne-besen-and-truth-wins-out-on-bushs.html

By day Holsinger teaches health sciences at the University of Kentucky where he was chancellor of the Chandler Medical Center. By night, however, the good doctor is a bible-thumping Reverend with a degree in biblical studies from Asbury Theological Seminary and a seeming ~~fascination of~~ antipathy towards homosexuals.

Holsinger founded the Hope Springs Community Church, a "recovery ministry" that caters to alcoholics, drug addicts, sex addicts and those seeking to "walk out of that {homosexual} lifestyle," according to its pastor Rev. David Calhoun. When not busy endorsing ex-gay conversion therapy, Holsinger served on the highest court of the United Methodist Church where he voted to remove a lesbian pastor from her position.

And today, the Human Rights Campaign released a document Holsinger authored in 1991 as a member of the United Methodist Church's Committee to Study Homosexuality. Titled Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality, Holsinger's religious tract-cum-scientific paper is a fascinating window into the perverse imagination of homophobia. In essence, Holsinger argues that male-female "reproductive systems are fully complementary" because "anatomically the vagina is designed to receive the penis." The remainder of his paper is a graphic account of the "delicate" rectum which is "incapable" of "protection" if "objects that are large, sharp, or pointed are inserted" into it. From there Holsinger continues to discuss what he imagines are the pains (and pleasures?) of anal sex, from "fist fornication" and "sphincter injuries" to "lacerations," "perforations" and "deaths seen in connection with anal eroticism."

Sharp objects! Deaths seen in connection with anal eroticism! Gadzooks! Now, I've been around the block one or ten times, and I don't know any gay men who have put scissors up their ass, much less died from it. Of course, the barely mentioned but palpably anxious context in which Holsinger connects "death" with "anal eroticism" is the AIDS epidemic. And it should come as no surprise that his paper was part of a larger, pseudo-medical, moral discourse in which gay men's mode of sex (and by extension gay men) were blamed for AIDS - the death we deserved, the sexual suicide we courted.

The flip side of Dr. Holsinger's lurid speculation is the dangerous presumption that because heterosexual sex is "natural," it is safe -- safe from HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases and the trauma and injury that Holsinger seems so feverishly eager to attribute to gay anal sex. We now know, tragically and beyond any possible doubt, that heterosexual sex is not safe unless one practices it as such. And no amount of wishing and praying by our next Surgeon General on the "complementarity of the human sexes" will make it so.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15

Holsinger needs to read up on his biology:

The FABULOUS kingdom of GAY animals
http://www.salon.com/it/feature/1999/03/cov_15featurea.html
They've been keeping it from us: There are homosexual and bisexual animals, ranging from charismatic megafauna like mountain gorillas to cats, dogs and guinea pigs. There are transgendered animals, transvestite animals (who adopt the behavior of the other gender but don't have sex with their own), and animals who live in bisexual triads and quartets.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=e&q=biological+exuberance&meta=

Another Republican ignoramus -- this one in charge of the health department of the most powerful nation on earth.

I know people with HIV in NYC, in the richest nation on earth, who are ARE STILL DYING BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE FREE HEALTHCARE -- and one of the main reasons is because we have superstitious bigots and shitheads like this one, WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE OR IN GOVERNMENT, running the scientific governmental programs that we pay tax dollars for to help us.

This man is a lunatic and he belongs on the street corner with a handmade sign, not in a Cabinet-level position with responsibility for administering the nation's healthcare. It is an insult to normal Americans that Bush feels the need to placate his christo-fascist base by appointing an unqualified buffoon to be the country's top doctor.