...if he was drinking when he chose Dr. Jim Holsinger. This dude believes that homosexuals can be "cured" so his selection is a real head-scratcher - even for a president who hasn't made a decision that makes sense in, oh, nearly six-and-a-half years. This latest decision though, I find completely offensive. Did VP Dick Cheney, whose lesbian daughter Mary recently made him a grandfather, approve of Holsinger? If so, he is even more vile than I previously thought.
Anyway, ABC News political blogger reports Friday that Sen. Barack Obama is first out the gate in blasting the nominatrion with the following statement: “America’s top doctor should be a doctor for all Americans, and so I have serious reservations about nominating someone who would inject his own anti-gay ideology into critical decisions about the health and well-being of our nation," Obama said this morning. " As with other nominees, I will listen to the testimony of Dr. James Holsinger, but this Administration must know that the United States Surgeon General’s office is no place for bigotry or ideology that would trump sound science and good judgment.”
Holsinger has rightfully come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy. Also, he helped found a congregation that gay rights activists say believes homosexuality is a matter of choice and can be "cured."
Both Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton took some heat from the gay community when neither would state whether they thought homosexulity was "immoral" or not after Gen. Peter Pace said it was. Obama didn't let that to happen again!