The Party of Promiscuity

Andrew Tobias makes an interesting connection and coins a new description of the thugs:

There’s a connection here. The Republicans’ famously slow reaction to the AIDS crisis, because it seemed to be confined to gay men and heroine addicts, has led to a trajectory of the disease that now has 65 million mostly heterosexual people infected. Imagine if, all things considered, a more muscular response had revved up research and prevention efforts to lower the trajectory of the curve. Over the long run, worldwide, tens of millions of lives – many of them children’s lives – would have been saved.

So what’s the connection between AIDS 25 years ago and the proposed federal anti-marriage amendment today? Other than the obvious – Republican distaste for gay people – it is that promiscuity spreads AIDS. The Republican leadership has consistently worked to discourage and devalue stable, monogamous gay unions. The Republican Party is the party of promiscuity.