South Carolina wants to attract homosexual tourists so it put out some advertisements.
People are pissed!
A state employee has resigned and officials have disavowed an international advertising campaign that led to calls for an investigation of tourism posters proclaiming “South Carolina is so gay.”
The campaign, which plastered the London subway with posters advertising the charms of South Carolina and five major U.S. cities to gay European tourists, landed with a resounding thud in South Carolina, where the issue of gay rights has long been a political flashpoint.
The advertisements were timed for London’s Gay Pride Week, which ended Saturday. The posters touted the attractions of the state to gay tourists, including its “gay beaches” and its Civil War-era plantations.
Similar ads were posted for Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., none of which reported any negative backlash. But in South Carolina, reaction to the posters — dubbed “the gayest ever mainstream media advertising campaign in London” by Out Now, the Australian advertising firm that designed the promotion — was swift.
After The Palmetto Scoop, a South Carolina political blog, uncovered the promotion last week, Republican state Sen. David Thomas of Greenville protested the campaign and called for an audit of the advertising budget overseen by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
Libby Dole pokes a stick in homosexuals’ eyes. This is great. The homo community has it collective drawers in a knot over Libby Dole’s proposal to name an AIDS relief bill after Jesse Helms:
SA 5074. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 1, line 5, strike “and Henry J. Hyde” and insert “, Henry J. Hyde, and Jesse Helms”.
Why are they pissed?
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as “so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS research bill, saying, “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their “deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 2002 announced that he’d changed his mind about AIDS funding for Africa, but not for American gays, because homosexuality “is the primary cause of the doubling and redoubling of AIDS cases in the United States.”
HEHEHEHE!
This will piss you off.
John “F**king” Kerry and that republican wannabe, Gordon Smith, from the People’s Democratic Republic of Oregon, wants to end a visa ban on people with HIV.
A ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States that has lasted for two decades may come to an end soon through a Senate bill on fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world.
The United States currently is among a dozen countries, including Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Russia, that ban travel and immigration for HIV-positive people.
Even China, said Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, recently changed that policy and decided it was “time to move beyond an antiquated, knee-jerk reaction” to people with HIV.
Kerry and Senator Gordon Smith, Republican of Oregon, are trying to repeal the ban, first implemented in 1987 and confirmed by Congress in 1993. The two have attached their measure to legislation providing $50 billion over the next five years to fight AIDS and other diseases in poor countries that the Senate may pass this week.
“There’s no excuse for a law that stigmatizes a particular disease,” Kerry said Tuesday in a speech to the Center for Strategic & International Studies HIV/AIDS Task Force. Even people with avian flu or the Ebola virus are judged on a better standard than those with HIV when it comes to applying for visas, he said.
Foreign nationals, students and tourists can apply for a difficult-to-obtain special waiver for short-term visits, but an HIV-positive person has little chance of obtaining permanent residency.
So basically, we don’t have enough problems with illegals bringing in TB and other contagious diseases. Now we have to let in the riff-raff from the rest of the world contaminated with HIV in order to drive our health care costs even higher?
Why don’t sumbitches like these two contract a fatal disease and put us out of their misery?
And almost as if they can foresee the approval of this stupidity, the Senate’s voted to triple overseas spending on AIDS!
The Senate voted Wednesday to triple spending for a much-acclaimed program that has treated and protected millions in Africa and elsewhere from the scourges of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The 80-16 vote committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched by the United States.
The legislation would replace and expand the current $15 billion act that President Bush championed in a State of the Union address and Congress passed in 2003. That act expires at the end of September.
FORTY EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS!!!
I am really getting fed up with so much spending on diseases that are 100% preventable.
Hell, I’m just getting fed-up with so much spending on Africa. What is this obsession with saving Africa? Is it some latent manifestation of collective Western guilt over colonialism? No amount of money is going to fix their problems. FFS, if we’re going to throw away American tax-payers’ money, couldn’t we find a better use for it at home?