February 26, 2009

What Was He Thinking?
More to the point—does he think? Does he have a brain?
Senator Schultheis of the Colorado General Assembly stated publicly that he opposes the AIDS testing of pregnant women. Even having a private thought like this, imnsho, disqualifies him from holding office.

When he received the inevitable and well deserved flak for making such a statement, he defended it. He said that he hoped the child born to a woman with AIDS would contract the disease—thereby causing its mother to feel guilty.
To his mind, the child’s suffering and premature death takes second chair to making a statement about the woman’s “promiscuity”.
Of course, it is not a given that the mother had engaged in promiscuous sexual behavior. Furthermore, if she had, by Schultheis’ lights, acted in such a fashion, that does not mean that any objective observer might agree with his view.
And if she had, even in an objective light, acted irresponsibly? According to Schultheis, we should condemn her child to this deadly disease.

Oh, and by the way—Senator Schultheis is on the Health and Human Services Committee of Colorado. I'm not kidding—I couldn't make this stuff up.

For what it’s worth, I sent an email to Senator Schultheis calling him out as the misogynist and child-hater he is and urging him to step down from office. I think we should stuff his inbox!
In case you’re interested in joining the fray, here is his email address:
senatorschultheis@gmail.com

6 comments:

jmsjoin said...

WTF? The kid deserves it? WTF? It is bad enough saying something so stupid but then being stupid enough to try and defend it. Did I say WTF?

two crows said...

hi Jim--
yep. that's what he did all right.
evil. that's the only word for this man. I'm ashamed to share my planet and species with him.

I'm editing this post to add links to newspaper articles I found on the web today, in case you want to check them out.

jmsjoin said...

I will come by! You should add the links and re-post it as an update so people that follow you will know you have new output!

jmsjoin said...

Health and Human Services Geezuz Krist!

two crows said...

hi, Jim--
how does that following thing work?

I follow a few blogs and I'm never advised when they post stuff. True, I did just sign on -- so maybe it's too soon.

still, how does it work???

jmsjoin said...

If you have the new Blogger when they update it shows when on your blogroll. I have not checked to see if you have it but you must by now.