yes, it's worse

and i should have known. i WAS going to make a comment on the story i posted yesterday (on mr tobias) how he must be some religious right-wing nut since he was an appointment of king george's (for countries and organizations to receive funding for AIDS issues - can you imagine) BUT i didn't because i knew very little about the man.

of course he IS some sort of religious dipshite (i am NOT making light of religion, i'm making light of people who are idiots ABOUT religion) using their god(s) for their (the man NOT the god) own purposes. makes me sick. oh when i was driving home from work the other day, i had npr on. they had a guest on, someone who had formed a network (like myspace but it wasn't myspace) for people to share info and 'meet' and things of that nature. the host and guest were talking about technology and socialization and civilization. they took a few calls. the third call in was some 'christian' (i use that term loosely. VERY loosely), who claimed the use of the internet was documented in the bible and how, due to our use of the internet we are VERY close to the end of time. the rapture.

SEE THEY'RE EVERYWHERE

Official Caught Using Escort Service Demanded Anti-Prostitution ‘Loyalty Oaths’

Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”
Aid groups bitterly opposed the policy, charging that it “was so broad — and applied even to their private funds — that it would obstruct their outreach to sex workers who are at high risk of transmitting the AIDS virus.” But President Bush wouldn’t budge. He signed a 2003 National Security Presidential Directive saying prostitution “and related activities” were “inherently harmful and dehumanizing.”
Several groups and countries had their funding cut due to the policy. Brazil lost $40 million for “one of its most successful anti-AIDS strategies, persuading sex workers to use condoms or other measures to stop spreading the disease.”.................