What is it with Republicans and pipes, anyway? If Freud were still around, I bet he'd have something to say about this. Remember when Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, likened the internet to a series of tubes? Now we have Dr. James Holsinger, Bush's nominee for Surgeon General, who has written papers likening sex organs to pipe fittings, concluding that gay sex is biologically unnatural.
Setting aside the amusing notion of Republicans with pipe fixations (and possibly oversimplification issues as well), I find that kind of logic objectionable. One can define "biologically unnatural" however one likes. Dr. Holsinger appears to be the kind of guy who trims his nails, trims his beard, clips his ear-hair, and wears fibers not found in nature wrapped around his person. Oh, and is that artificially-shaped silicone distorting the light that should naturally strike his retinas without distortion? Does anyone close to him have tattoos, piercings, surgury, fillings, artificial heart valves, stents, manufactured vitamin or medicine intake? Is that all biologically natural? Of course not. He's simply anti-gay, and wraps that opinion in medical terms because people don't question doctors.
People choose to do all sorts of things that could be seen as unnatural, and some of those things cause health problems. We need a Surgeon General who will address those issues as problems to be solved, not one who sits in judgment on people's lifestyle choices.
Andy ><> ><>
1 comments:
I have to agree with you here. When are we going to get people in office who care about the important issues. It is no ones business if someone is gay, pagan or democrat. What is important is that we save our planet, deal with domestic violence, and have a place to go in the event that our Earth is no longer a safe place to live or one reason or another.
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