“Booty Call”: The CDC and Your Tax Dollars

It is counter-productive to encourage homosexual behavior through seminars that teach attendees how to flirt more effectively, encourage homosexual pornography and advise hiring prostitutes rather than going to “sex clubs.” The CDC simultaneously reports statistics that reveal homosexual men as the highest risk group for STDs: “Homosexuals comprise the single largest exposure category of the more than 600,000 males with AIDS in the United States. As of December 1999, ‘men who have sex with men’ and ‘men who have sex with men and inject drugs’ together accounted for 64 percent of the cumulative total of male AIDS cases.”[i] This is an outrageous figure considering that homosexual men account for only 1-3% of the male population, but represent 64% of AIDS cases. The CDC also reports, “Studies of MSM (men who have sex with men) treated in STD clinics show rates of infection as high as 36 percent in major cities.”[ii] Unfortunately, the CDC is combating the spread of AIDS by funding homosexually explicit events and telling participants to use a condom. It does not seem to be working.

Matt Barber, CWA’s Policy Director for Cultural Issues, found it mind-boggling. “It is the height of irresponsibility and incongruity for the CDC, which is tasked with disease control and prevention, to actively promote and encourage the very homosexual lifestyle which they admit is most responsible for the spread of preventable, and often deadly, sexually transmitted disease,” said Barber. “What’s next? Is the CDC going to use our tax dollars to sponsor a cigarette smoke-a-thon fundraiser for the American Lung Association? Are they going to encourage people to avoid liver disease by drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels per day? Someone at the CDC needs to be held accountable for this.”

This mismanagement of federal funds is just the tip of the iceberg. Senator Coburn is committed to exposing fraud and inefficiency within government agencies and foreign aid. He should be commended for his efforts.