{"id":2340,"date":"2007-06-07T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/06\/07\/our-next-surgeon-general\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T23:29:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T06:29:23","slug":"our-next-surgeon-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/06\/07\/our-next-surgeon-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Our next Surgeon General?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Alan Keyes&#8217;s organization, Renew America, has come out swinging on behalf of George W Bush&#8217;s new nomination for Surgeon General.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.us\/columns\/mbarber\/070607\"><em><font style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\"> By all accounts, Dr. Holsinger is widely respected by his peers in the medical, academic and state government communities. But, nonetheless, Dr. Holsinger has come under tremendous fire from liberal activists for having the courage to address the compelling medical evidence and multiple studies which underscore the reality that homosexuals can escape the homosexual lifestyle and realign themselves to a biologically and spiritually natural heterosexual &#8220;orientation.&#8221; The irrefutable reality that thousands of former homosexuals have chosen to leave the &#8220;gay&#8221; lifestyle they once chose to enter only serves to further bolster \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if not prove entirely \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dr. Holsinger&#8217;s advised medical assessment.<\/font><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;scientific argument&#8221; proferred from Dr. Holsinger reminds me of the old Intelligent Design arguments.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically the reason that homosexuality is an unhealthy act is because penises fit into vaginas oh so perfectly.\u00c2\u00a0 And the body is trained to reject anything else.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/Politics\/Holsinger_on_Homosexuality.pdf\">The structure and function of the male and female human reprodu<\/a>ctive systems are fully complementary.\u00c2\u00a0 Anatomically  the vagina is designed to receive the penis.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is lined with squamous epithelium and is surrounded by a muscular tube intended for penile intromission. The rectum, on the other hand, is lined with a delicate mucosal surface and a single layer of columnar epithelium intenuea primarily ror the reabsorption of water and electrolytes. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The rectum is incapable of mechanical protection against abrasion and severe damage to the colonic mucosa can result if objects that are large, sharp, or pointed are inserted into the rectum (Agnew, 1986). The anus and rectum, unlike the vagina contain no natural lubricating function. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thus insertion of unlubricated objects or inadequate dilation of the anus before insertion of a large object can result in tissue laceration. &#8220;The internal and external anal sphincters are elastic rings of muscle which generally remain tightly constricted except during defecation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which is all why we have AIDS.\u00c2\u00a0 AIDS for gay people, you understand.<\/p>\n<p>Which is standard operating thought for the 1980s, of which 1991 basically was a part of.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=3251663&#038;page=1\">&#8220;That paper was a survey of scientific peer-reviewed studies that he was asked to compile by the United Methodist Church, it&#8217;s not that he <\/a>was saying &#8216;this is what I believe,'&#8221; Babin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a reflection of the available scientific data from the 1980s. It should be noted that in 1991, homosexuals were banned from the military and several years before that, homosexuality and Haitian nationality were considered risk factors for HIV\/AIDS. Over the last 20 years, a clearer understanding of these issues has been achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about medical experts who disputed that Holsinger&#8217;s paper expressed opinions timely in 1991 and pressed to explain what Holsinger&#8217;s views on homosexuality are currently , Babin said, &#8220;we look forward to the confirmation process, where we can share Dr. Holsinger&#8217;s qualifications and views.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rule is that you can be gay in the military, so long as you are closeted.\u00c2\u00a0 Which amounts to the same thing as the pre-&#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask \/ Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; rule.\u00c2\u00a0 1991 therefor equals 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 More or less.\u00c2\u00a0 The entire Democratic slate of presidential candidates raised their hands in opposition to &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask \/ Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;; the entire slate of Republican presidential candidates let the crickets chirp at the question.\u00c2\u00a0 But leave aside that logic for a moment and look at some more of this landmark study:<\/p>\n<p><em>In fact, the logical complementarity of the human sexes has been so recognized in our culture that it has entered our vocabulary in the form of naming various pipe fittings either the male fitting or the female fitting depending upon which one interlocks within the other.\u00c2\u00a0 When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur as noted above. <\/em><br \/>\nForgetting the bigoted nature of this argument, I think more in terms of logical fallacies here.\u00c2\u00a0 This is akin to proving that God exists because we reference God in our everyday language.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, our standard heterosexual relations dictate the majority of our languages.<\/p>\n<p>Pipe fittings?\u00c2\u00a0 Is this more 80s thinking?<br \/>\nWell.\u00c2\u00a0 The Democrats have to decline this nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Bush can turn around and nominate&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joycelyn_Elders\">Jocelyn Elders, perhaps<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean&#8230; if he&#8217;s serious at pursuing his Abstinence\u00c2\u00a0 Only Policies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Alan Keyes&#8217;s organization, Renew America, has come out swinging on behalf of George W Bush&#8217;s new nomination for Surgeon General. By all accounts, Dr. Holsinger is widely respected by his peers in the medical, academic and state government communities. But, nonetheless, Dr. Holsinger has come under tremendous fire from liberal activists for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}