Pence's Incoming Chief of Staff,...Disparaged People Living With AIDS for 'Repugnant' GaySex....

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Pence’s Incoming Chief of Staff, Marc Short, Disparaged People Living With AIDS for ‘Repugnant’ Gay Sex in College Column

Short, who served as Donald Trump’s top congressional aide, expressed regret for words he says are no longer reflective of his worldview.

Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein
02.27.19 4:42 AM ET

Vice President Mike Pence’s incoming chief of staff Marc Short disparaged people living with HIV and AIDS and claimed that the transmission of the disease was largely the result of “repugnant” homosexual intercourse in an early ’90s column for his college newspaper.

Writing in a conservative publication at Washington & Lee University, Short criticized what he called “the propaganda campaign ignited by gay activists and carelessly perpetuated by journalists whose intent is to scare all heterosexuals into believing they are prime targets for contraction of the disease.”


“The campaign's purpose,” Short wrote, “is both to lobby Congress for more federal funding of AIDS research and to destigmatize the perverted lifestyles homosexuals pursue.”

Short even suggested that the gay community was pleased to see NBA Star Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis because the highly publicized case would undercut claims that gay people were particularly vulnerable to the virus or responsible for its transmission.

“No one can doubt… the celebration by AIDS activists of Magic's infection,” Short wrote, as it “shocked the world into believing this nonsense that everyone is prone to infection.”

The column was published in The Spectator, a conservative student newspaper that Short co-founded as an undergraduate in 1989. Short served as an editor for the publication until he graduated in 1992.

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[bullwinkle428]

1. Assholes of a feather.

[SKKY]

2. Honestly, does this really surprise anyone?

I feel like this Gileadean morality is baked in with Pence at this point.

[RKP5637]

4. Pence, is a strange and exceptionally creepy individual! n/t

[RKP5637]

3. The stuff destructive people and countries are made of. Unfit for Chief of Staff! n/t

[redstatebluegirl]

5. They are all less than human.

In 1984 I sat with one of my best friends as he died of AIDS. He was the most caring, loving intelligent person I have ever known. I will never forget all of his friends, there were about 6 of us who took care of him in the end, sitting in his living room crying and carrying out his wishes for his memorial a day after he died. His mother showed up, she had not seen him in 7 years because he was "dirty", to collect his "things". What she intended to collect was the expensive art and furniture in his apartment. We had to call the police because she was only left a dollar in the will. Terry was an attorney, he left his things to be sold and the money given to LGBT charities he had worked with.

This guy is like Terry's mom, a boil on the butt of humanity.