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| redeye |
A November 30, 2006, article by Los Angeles Times staff writer Seema Mehta is entitled, Evangelical pastor, Obama join forces to battle AIDS." In an unflattering passage on evangelicals, Mehta forwards the claim, "They [evangelical Christians] remain one of the religious groups slowest to respond to the pandemic [AIDS]."
Mehta's claim simply isn't true. What is one way that we know this? Mehta's own newspaper editors directly debunk her on the very same day as her article!
The Times' editorial debunking Mehta is "Christian Conservatives vs. AIDS." Writes the Times,
The focus on AIDS by evangelicals isn't new, but Rev. Rick Warren is taking it to a new level ...
President Bush and his Christian supporters seldom get the credit they deserve for their role in the global fight against AIDS. U.S. spending on the disease overseas has risen more than tenfold under Bush, while Christian groups have given unselfishly to the cause. Churches, in fact, run health clinics in much of rural Africa; without them, stemming AIDS would be all but impossible ...
Same newspaper! Same day! Two different stories! Of course, the Times editorial, not Ms. Mehta, is the one who is correct. For example,World Vision, a Christian organization long allied with evangelicals, has been taking on the fight against AIDS in Africa for years; for decades, they have been a leading group dedicated to the Christian mission of "tackling the causes of poverty and injustice." (See this 2003 article,"National Evangelical Leaders Sound Call to Action in Global AIDS Fight"
(By the way, Mehta becomes the umpteenth journalist to refer to Sen. Obama as a "rising star in the Democratic Party." Ugh. Haven't we heard this enough? ("Rising star" +Obama at Google returns 68,300 results. "Rising star in the Democratic Party" +Obama returns 797 results.))
Quote: "President Bush has confirmed his belief that AIDS can be defeated," Mr. Annan said. "I hope the US Congress will accept the President's challenge and ensure that the needed funding is made available as quickly as possible, in keeping with the urgency of this crisis. And I hope that this example will encourage other governments to follow suit."
Echoing that theme was Stephen Lewis, the Secretary-General Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, who said that Mr. Bush's announcement challenges every other member of the Group of Seven most industrialized nations - the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada - to follow suit before its next summit in June in France. |
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| redeye |
| Funny how Clown Clinton gets all this credit for things like this but in reality it's W who's made sure the US gave more than when Bubbaboy was in. It's also funny that libs don't give away their own money but generally most conservatives do. They favor the welfare state while generally we favor the pull yourself up by your bootstraps state. |
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| Ass Boil |
Funny how the church won't endorse the use of condoms..... Seems that alone proves her point. And that you are a fucking idiot.
 <---redeye |
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| redeye |
What do you think about Bush and his efforts to wipe out AIDS? How do you think he has done with this problem?
Can you give the President of the United States credit for anyhthing you country hating LOON! |
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| Ass Boil |
| It is a failure like everything else he does. |
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| redeye |
Quote: Originally posted by Ass Boil
It is a failure like everything else he does. |
Bush has lead here & your hero Annan even thinks he done well here. Is there more he could do to fight AIDS? |
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