AIDS comments alarm Ryan White's mother

[johnnie]

" DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, that she has asked for a meeting.


"I would be very willing to meet with them," the former Arkansas governor responded Tuesday while campaigning in western Iowa. "I would tell them we've come a long way in research, in treatment."

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[Breeze54]

1. My first thought was about Ryan White, when I heard Huckabee's comment.

I'm glad she's speaking out... again! That poor woman! :grr:

[bunkerbuster1]

2. I remember seeing homophobe parents picketing Ryan's school

I remember one pre-K age child hoisting aloft a sign reading "NO AIDS IN SCHOOL!"

I remember thinking that if there is a Hell, that kid's parents are headed there.

[shain from kane]

3. "...come a long way in research, in treatment." Not quite so far in hatefulness, Huckabee? I'm

thinking that, especially as a pastor, Huckabee still equated AIDS as the gay plague punishment for gay sex in the early 90s, and probably hasn't changed his opinion all that much.