Friday, January 10, 2003

And now, the war on terrorism extends to the war on condoms, and millions of deaths may result around the world because of the Republicans' irresistible impulse to foist their puritanical values upon the rest of us--and the rest of the world, in this case. Some wacky evangelical folks out there are even distributing misinformation that tells you that the AIDS virus measure sonly about a micron in diameter and so easily passes through the (nonexistent) pores of a condom which they say are 10 microns. Of course, if that were true, we'd surely even more AIDS cases on our hands than we do. And we'd have millions of people who have always used protection who'd have AIDS and they'd likely have passed it on to many more people. You do the math. There'd probably be more people with AIDS than without it by now. But people don't take these things to their logical extent.



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