HIV+ Fundamentalist Appointed to PACHA

NAM is taking issue with a Bush appointment to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS. Jerry Thacker is a fundamentalist Christian, which is fine, and HIV+ from a 1986 blood transfusion, also fine. Calling homosexuality a “deathstyle” seems counter-productive, though. So do references to the “Gay Plague.” There were other, more common-sense appointments to the Council, so it’s not the end of the world. But still. It’s hard to interpret it as anything other than a big “fuck you” to AIDS activists. Kinda like appointing David Duke to the Civil Rights Commission, for the sake of “balance.”