Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, upset a few people on Monday at the recent AIDS conference in Bangkok. He had the nerve to suggest that abstaining from sex was the best way to prevent AIDS. Who does he think he is? God?
Museveni’s “ABC” program (Abstinence, Being faithful and Condoms) helped lower the rate of infection in Uganda from 30 percent to 6 percent. That’s all well and good, but doesn’t he realize people are free sexual beings who must express themselves? How can they be expected to exercise self-control and abstain until…marriage? The very thought!
The Ugandan leader credited with slashing HIV rates in his country insisted Monday that condoms are not the ultimate solution to fighting the AIDS scourge, saying abstinence and loving relationships in marriage are even more crucial.
President Yoweri Museveni’s comments on the second day of the International AIDS Conference were in line with the position of President Bush but at odds with a majority of researchers and activists involved in fighting the disease….
Uganda has waged one of the world’s most successful battles against the spread of HIV in a rare success story for sub-Saharan Africa.(Source reg. req’d)
While most world leaders snubbed this year’s AIDS conference (They probably got tired of the shakedown), Museveni showed up and told the attendees how his country’s infection rates were lowered, but he was castigated as an “extremist.” Uganda is proof positive that abstinence, in addition to other protections, works. But abstinence is no fun. Delaying gratification is boring. I bet the same goes for those AIDS conferences.
Nobody wants to be told what to do. They want to live as recklessly as they please and pass the consequences on to you. They expect the world (read: United States) to cough up “AIDS prevention” money to clean up their mess.
And call you an extremist for having the indecency to do or say otherwise.
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La Shawn, too bad you never got around to importing the posts from ye olde blog server.
There were some good comments back then
I still have them, Andy. In fact, if I ever find the time, I’ll copy and paste them all over here. I’m too chicken to let somebody mess around with the site configuration to do it.
I take it there isn’t an import routine then? I downloaded Wordpress, but never got around to installing it and dabbling. Sigh, just another thing in my looong list of round-to-its
No import for comments, as far as I know. I can’t believe no one has “invented” a way to import comments. They’d make a lot of money.
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