The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking for more of your money but using it for purposes anathema to the majority of the American people. Fortunately for American taxpayers, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) is demanding responsible spending from legislators and government agencies. Sen. Coburn’s hard work in creating oversight in government spending has revealed some shocking uses of your money by the CDC.
The report released by Sen. Coburn, “Oversight Report on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” exposed some obscene uses of federal money. In order to control and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), CDC used its budget for the following purposes:
· A transgender beauty pageant in San Francisco that advertised available HIV testing.
· Funded an event called “Men for Hire” put on by the Stop AIDS Project in San Francisco at which homosexual men learned “seven guidelines for safe and friendly relations with escorts.” The speaker, Joseph Itiel, encouraged attendees to hire male prostitutes as a “safe-sex” practice.
· Funded an event, also put on by the Stop AIDS Project, called “Got Love? – Flirt/Date/Score” that taught participants how “to flirt with greater finesse.”
· Funded events called “Booty Call” and “Great Sex” put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.
· Gave $1.6 million to an organization that hired a homosexual porn star to appear at an event in a towel and cowboy boots to promote “safe-sex.”
These examples of CDC projects demonstrate that the organization is not only funding ineffective programs, but actually promoting agendas that are in opposition to its stated “disease control and prevention” purpose. CDC is sponsoring events that foment the spreading of disease rather than those that prevent disease. It is a blatant conflict of interest to fund a beauty pageant that promotes transgender behavior which — despite tremendous political pressure by the transgender lobby — is still considered a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association.