There has been a lot of AIDS talk over the past few weeks with the conference in Toronto. Unfortunately, since we still live in a mostly homophobic society, and AIDS struck the gay community in its infancy, there is still a stigma attached to this disease. Our wonderful P.M. , Harper, leader of the Reform Party, choose to skip the conference because he can’t handle homosexuality, even though AIDS kills people from all walks of life. He is likely to cut funding to the needle park in Vancouver and AIDS in general, not, in this case, due to any ideological reason beyond his party’s belief that government should only give money to people who already have gobs of it, or rather, tax them less, and to take away money given to people who really need it and not give them any more.
What a nice fellow!
TWF
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