The Binary Circumstance

Presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee isn’t happy with the Constitution that has made the U.S. one of the greatest countries that has ever existed. He wants to violate the Constitution by making it reflect his own religious view of God.

“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards,” Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Isn’t it just a tad unpatriotic to write violations of the First Amendment into the Constitution?

Meanwhile, there are those Christians who are blaming the spread of MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant “flesh eating” bacteria, on gays.

Epidemic Feared - ‘Gays’ May Spread Deadly Staph Infection to General Population

It’s like the early years of AIDS all over again.

MRSA is the result of attacking bacteria with antibiotics. Through the natural process of evolution and natural selection, the bacteria mutates into new antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. But since Christians for the most part reject evolution, even when evidence for it is happening right in front of their eyes, they blame gays.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are the price we pay for antibiotics which are an exceptionally valuable tool in fighting disease, just as drug-resistant HIV is the price we pay for drug cocktails.

Christians held up AIDS research for years by claiming that it was God’s punishment for homosexuality even though the vast majority of cases have always been in the heterosexual population.

Let me be blunt about this: Millions of people, including millions of children, have died because of the ignorance and anti-science views of Christians in the arena of HIV/AIDS, not to mention other diseases at other times in history. Must we new endure the same nonsense when it comes to MRSA?

How many millions will they kill this time?

What a catastrophe it would be for rational thought and science to have a president who would write such nonsensical premises into our Constitution. It should also be noted that Huckabee is on record and very proud of the fact that the doesn’t believe in evolution.

If you don’t accept evolution, it is impossible to understand diseases and how they impact the human population or how treatments can alter the disease causing pathogens by causing them to mutate and evolve into resistant strains.

For more on MRSA read this article. Pay particular attention to words like “evolve,” “evolved,” and “evolution.”

Hat tip for some of these links.

Finally, the long-awaited cure for heterosexuality may be on the horizon.

Research on fruit flies has uncovered a biochemical “switch” that can expand the sexual orientation of males from exclusively heterosexual to include homosexual conduct and then back again in a very short period of time.

This homosexual behavior could be induced within hours using inducible RNAi, suggesting that genderblind controls nervous system function rather than its development. Consistent with this, and indicating that glial genderblind regulates ambient extracellular glutamate to suppress glutamatergic synapse strength in vivo, homosexual behavior could be turned on and off by altering glutamatergic transmission pharmacologically and/or genetically.

Just imagine a world with no more children that are unwanted accidents and where abortion and birth control are completely unnecessary. The obsessively heterosexual types will have an option that is non-reproductive. When it’s time to start a family and have kids, they can just stop taking their homo pills.

Just imagine a world where gay men and women would be finally set free from militant heterosexuals who suffer the pain of their sexuality by attempting to force it on everyone, clinging to the belief that they “chose” their sexuality to please a God who would hate them or even kill them if they were gay.

Just imagine a world with a lot fewer tastelessly decorated homes.

Just imagine if sexuality finally became a choice in reality, not just in religious fantasy of choice. Would Larry Craig’s foot stop tapping in airport restrooms or would the population of foot tappers grow exponentially?

This is getting so difficult. The Idaho Statesman has published claims by several gay men, including Mike Jones who famously outed Ted Haggard, that they had sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Larry Craig. They have also posted graphic audio files of the interviews.

Larry Craig is a liar and a hypocrite but the gay men seem almost blissfully unaware that they are giving Idaho voters everything they need to discriminate against gay people running for office. I can understand why they’re doing it in Larry Craig’s case because he has been no friend of gays when it comes to casting votes.

But there’s another side to this coin.

I’d like to think that people will appreciate their honesty but my experience tells me that heterosexuals, especially of the religious variety, always in the end condemn the homosexuals. After all, God made them better than everybody else, right?

The question that goes unasked is “would Larry Craig be in office in Idaho if he was openly and proudly gay?” If the answer is no, and I think it is, then you know why he’s in the closet and living a life of shame and self-loathing. That’s probably all that Idaho voters like the voters in many other states as will allow.

I think Ayn Rand once said something to the effect that you have no obligation to tell a thief where the jewels are hidden. Gay men and women have historically hidden in the closet when the culture in which they are living is hostile to them. It is necessary for self-defense against constant attacks and the theft of all happiness and satisfaction in life.

If heterosexuals are going to steal the lives of gay men and women, there is no obligation to empower them or assist them in carrying out their crimes against individuals who choose to live freely in a country where liberty is supposed to be a birthright.

A promising HIV vaccine trial was recently halted when it appeared that those in the vaccinated group were becoming infected with HIV at a higher rate than those receiving the placebo.

The vaccine used a disabled form of a common-cold virus to carry three synthetically produced HIV genes into the body. It was hoped that those genes would spur the body to unleash an HIV-targeted immune response using so-called “killer” T cells.

Neither the cold virus nor the HIV genes could reproduce, so volunteers could not catch a cold or become infected with HIV directly from the vaccine.

Researchers knew in September that men who were receiving the vaccine were catching HIV at a higher rate than the men who received the dummy shots.

In an initial review, they found 24 HIV infections among 741 men who received at least one dose of the vaccine. That compared to 21 HIV cases among 762 men in the placebo group.

A smaller sample, limited to those who had received at least two vaccinations, found 19 infections in the vaccine group and 11 in the placebo group.

That was enough to pull the plug on the trials Sept. 21.

These are puzzling results.

We’ve known for a long time that HIV thrives when the immune system is stimulated. These results raise the question whether immune system stimulation of any kind from things like vaccines, allergies, or diseases make it more likely for individuals to become infected with HIV.

It also raises ethical questions about testing HIV vaccines if in fact it turns out that they could increase the likelihood of becoming infected.