Just when you thought the president could not get any scarier… along comes Robert Redfield .
The selection to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked has previously
- expressed his belief that AIDS is God’s judgment upon homosexuals
- spread through the U.S. due to lax family values.
[Dr. Robert] Redfield's early engagement with the AIDS epidemic in the US in the 1980s and 90s was controversial. As an Army major at Walter Reed Medical Institute, he designed policies for controlling the disease within the US military that involved placing infected personnel in quarantine and investigating their pasts to identify and track possible sexual partners. Soldiers were routinely discharged and left to die of AIDS, humiliated and jobless, often abandoned by their families.
Not scary enough?
He worked with the fundy group of Christians called Americans for a Sound HIV/AIDS Policy back in the 80s.
The group maintained that AIDS was "God's judgment" against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.
Redfield wrote the introduction to a 1990 book, "Christians in the Age of AIDS," co-written by Smith, in which he denounced distribution of sterile needles to drug users and condoms to sexually active adults, and described anti-discrimination programs as the efforts of "false prophets."
In the 1990s he supported House Bill 2788 that would have made positive individuals
“testing, loss of professional licenses and would have effectively quarantined them.”
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