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      <![CDATA[And that's going to be my last comment. I don't mean to be haughty.
        
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      <![CDATA[Obviously they do bother you. What you mean is that you will tolerate their existence.
        
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      <![CDATA[Pete Wilson:  My personal position is that I'll let God deal with homosexuals. They don't bother me at all but I don't think they should be in position to influence or have authority over young people and I don't think government should enact laws to override someone's sense of morality nor enact laws to punish them for their morality and that's why I argue.
        
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      <![CDATA[I didn't really understand that second sentence, Gast, but it appears you have given up the pretense of possible AIDS contagion as an excuse for discrimination against gays, and are now just saying you think gays are immoral. Well, that's your business.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Min &Pete Wilson:  This whole debate is about one group of people trying to force another group of people to accept the first group even though the first group has a lifestyle the second group finds, at the least, immoral. And if you fine people would look back through my comments you would find they are in defense of people being able to maintain their morality without government interference and also to confront those who want to use the bible to bolster their lifestyle.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Does Common Sense Work for You?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If someone's sexuality is a noticeable trait, and if their private behavior is an issue at work, then is that person professional enough to work for me? The answer is no. I need employees that I feel working dealing with, and THAT is the bottom line.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gast--Obviously I can't prove a negative. But Sullivan and Johnson go around in public every day and people do not seem to be afraid to hang around with them, nor have I seen reports that they have transmitted HIV as if it were a cold or the flu.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Emmy Lou]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[It would be irresponsible to simply take your word for it, with half of all men being carriers, and some forms can be passed by simple skin contact! When were you last tested?
        
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      <![CDATA[Yummy Lou, how are you? I do have one health related issue but it's under control and other than that I'm perfect, thank you.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gast, have you been tested for HPV? Because I for one don't want to work next to someone who can give me cancer.
        
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      <![CDATA[Knowing Mr. Woods would frame every question as a "gotta-yea" I'm surprised the<br>
Governor ever agreed to such an interview. Of course, he wants to play nice with<br>
all, but will learn soon enough some interviews would be better skipped!
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Pete Wilson:  You seem to be making a surefire assumption that neither Johnson or Sullivan have accidently infected another person. How could you possibly know this?
        
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      <![CDATA[Gast--Go research how many people have gotten HIV from just hanging around with Magic Johnson, Andrew Sullivan, or any number of other high-profile, publicly active men and women who have the virus, and then come back to me and try to make your Howard Hughes germophobe act seem more reasonable.
        
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      <![CDATA[I should not respond to @AWP in any shape, form or fashion, but telling someone to get his facts straight and then saying "Here in Woodbury, we don't have no gays and we don't have anyone with AIDS!" made me weep with laughter. <br>
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Not at my Cannon County neighbors who have been living with HIV for *decades*, of course.<br>
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Wait, I get it.
        
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      <![CDATA["If we did, we would send them off to East Nashville, aka Nashville's Sodom and Gomorrah, where they could go and live in sin with their own kind!"<br>
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I've always wondered...why didn't Gomorrah have a sexual act named after it, too?
        
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      <![CDATA[@Pete Wilson, KOSH III and AWP:  People, this is what I know from research and observation:  In the 1980s male homosexuals accounted for 85% of HIV cases in America, druggies only 7% although all the tainted blood transfusions were blamed on druggies. In the 1990s homosexual males accounted for approximately 65% of HIV patients.
        
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      <![CDATA["The vast majority of people with AIDS are not gay. The leading mode of transmission is male to female during vaginal intercourse.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hoot, if there weren't federal laws against discrimination against women, blacks, etc., these troglodytes would oppose any attempt to require businesses to not discrminate. In fact, all you have to do is go back and read the history of the Civil Rights acts to see that the troglodytes in fact did just that.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kosh III]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The proper question was not asked either: Mr Governor, why are you placing business profits over civil liberties? <br>
<br>
Of course we know he will only do what his corporate masters order.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gast, you should get your facts correct. The vast majority of people with AIDS are not gay.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Donna Locke]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This has been a pretty good week so far -- Jeff Woods calling out Haslam; Peter Cooper calling out the male country music stars; and a good-looking guy in Lowe's calling out "Okay!" after I turned around and said, "I need you to come out to my house with that." (Chain saw.)
        
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      <![CDATA[Gast--Might there not be some way, if it really is necessary for some particular job, to determine whether someone actually is HIV-positive, rather than use homosexuality as a spectacularly unreliable proxy for disqualification? Also, did you know that some people who aren't homosexuals have AIDS or are HIV-positive?
        
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      <![CDATA["Mike McWherter is a nice man, but was a very poor choice. "<br>
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I couldn't agree more.
        
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      <![CDATA[Since one out of six gay males are HIV positive isn't discrimination against gays something akin to discrimination against Typhoid Mary? And should employers and their insurers be made to take on the medical expenses  generated by HIV positive males.
        
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      <![CDATA[@greenhills:<br>
Only after you "suceed" in learning how to spell. "Secede" is the word you are looking for.<br>
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Sorry, I agree with you, but I couldn't resist.
        
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