Then there’s Carver County’s house district 47A, where Waconia Mayor Jim Nash is facing off against Norwood Young America businessman Bob Frey, a race in which “sodomy” has become one of the campaign issues.
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[W]hen questioned about his position on social issues, Frey added that it “does certainly need to be addressed for what it is. It’s not about the gay agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It’s more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle.”
Frey then explained his view: “When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That’s why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”
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"If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. "
Oh, for fuck's sake. This is not wrong on some abstract ideological levelit is demonstrably, objectively, factually wrong. It has long been established well beyond a reasonable doubt that AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and is also transmittable via vaginal intercourse.
People who try to run for public office should have their right to do so revoked until they at least put on a pretence of being acquainted with reality as it pertains to what they're saying.
...good luck finding a way to actually effectively implement that in practice, though. I honestly used to think that the collective will of the people in a democracy kept most of this kind of bullshit out of public office (y'know, kind of like that fairy tale of the free market's self-regulating "invisible hand" enforcing a fair distribution of wealth and decent treatment of workersbut I've long had both of those self-delusions shattered).
“When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That’s why the term is AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”
Ugh, I'm not going to even explain how you failed.
When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail.
Can you hear that thunderstorm? It's actually a noise of all the dead biologists spinning in their graves.
So, what about hemophiles that got contaminated through blood transfusions and straight people that got contaminated through good old vanilla sex? And children born seropositive?
So many loopholes in that reasoning, so few working braincells in that politician.
"It's all about the science"
Bullshitbullshitbullshitbullshit"
A agree with Shy. People who demonstrate such a profound, wanton lack of knowledge about or interest in the real world have no business trying to govern it.
And Americans wonder when some Europeans gasp at their public representatives!
America, you deserve better than this kind of idiocy in office. Make sure this crazy-minded fool does not gain office.
I agree, Shy. I think the way to accomplish it is through a constitutional amendment to the 1st Amendment. I would word it something like...
"Any elected official or candidate who cites his/her personal religious beliefs as justification for public policy shall be immediately removed from his/her position and forever barred from holding public office."
More heterosexuals than homosexuals have anal sex, stupid, as there are more heterosexuals. I hear anal is pretty common between straight teenagers in communities that focus on female virginity until marriage...
HIV is a virus that you contract by mixing bodily fluids with someone who's infected with the virus. From that virus, you acquire the immunodeficiency syndrome, silly.
A person this uninformed and deluded about basic medicine ought not to hold any kind of public office, if that is what the "facing off" is about.
...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
King Arthur: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
What kills me most is all the unintended nonsense his little people theory implies.
For example, its obvious he has no clue that millions of sperm, not just one, are present in a single ejaculation. Would that not mean that women are just as susceptible to aids due to the millions of sperm not fertilizing an egg?
How about all those sperm just sitting around waiting in the testes? How are this not causing aids in every single man right now?
Is a vasectomy therefore a nearly foolproof way of prevention aids?
Oh, Bob, you could have read some actual medical reference materials before babbling on about the causes and effects of HIV/AIDS. But, nooooo, you just yammered on from your wishful "thinking" and "Christian world view."
STFU until you know what you're talking about... so, uh, here's to never hearing from you again.
If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail.
BEWARE! The attack of the killer sperm!
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Sticking to Frey's ridiculous theory, what about the 99,9999% of the sperm that doesn't "burn through the egg"? Wouldn't it destroy the woman from within and give her AIDS too?
@ documentingtehcrazy
You would be dead by now? Really?
I hope you're kidding considering that your stomach is full of hydrochloric acid.
I seem to remember a fundie saying something about that and that we would be dead if it was true.
Maybe you were referring to that.
Okay.
ONE MORE TIME.
From what I understand of it (which may be wrong), HIV - human immunodeficiency virus - is, well, a virus. Viri reproduce by hijacking the protein-making machinery of a cell and forcing it to make more viri until the cell bursts from the pressure. HIV targets white blood cells, i.e. the immune system. White blood cells burst - pop, pop, pop - there aren't enough cells available to fight off the infection, HIV infects more white blood cells, and suddenly, bam - there goes your immune system.
Is this clear enough for you?
Oh, yay, a homophobic AIDS conspirator.
If this crackpot's theory is true, how can he answer why all men who receive unprotected anal sex don't develop AIDS? And why don't women who have unprotected anal sex all have AIDS, too? Why do people who never have anal sex, ever, get AIDS? Herp-a-derp-derp???
Of course, some of teh dumbest of teh dumb will still support this creep. Sadly.
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