Leading in to commercial at 7:10 am on Dec 12, 2007, John Roberts said that Mike Huckabee was willing to meet the mother of Ryan White, the boy "who put a human face on the [AIDS] crisis."
Roberts's characterization of those who died before Ryan White is breathtaking in its callousness. Because most who died before White were gay men, they were not human? Did they deserve what they got?
Ryan White didn't put a "human face" on the crisis; he put a *non-gay* face on the crisis. In the America of that era, that's what was needed to get most people to pay attention to this horrible disease and its victims. Because most with AIDS were gay, Ronald Reagan would not even say the word "AIDS" and he refused to see the AIDS Quilt when it was on the National Mall.
Most of the country has moved on since then. I guess John Roberts has not.
Has CNN? We shall see by how it responds.
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Huckabee has to gang up on the LGBT community to show us what a real man he is. If he has to pick on a group of American citizens why doesn't he pick a group that has the same rights, benefits & protections as he has? www.OUTTAKEonline/blog.html
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