Richard Gere attacks Bush over sex education

Ireland Online ^ | 7.18.04

[ambrose]

Gere attacks Bush over sex education

18/07/2004 - 12:51:59

Hollywood heart-throb Richard Gere launched a scathing attack on American President George W Bush's attitude to sex education in Bangkok on Tuesday.

The passionate actor was speaking at the 15th International Aids conference in the Thai capital, after visiting India the previous week with his younger brother David to highlight the Aids epidemic.

Gere took the opportunity to attack Bush's unrealistic approach to sex education after the president proposed in the 2005 budget that $270m (?216.8m) should be put into funding programs which dissuade teenagers from having sex.

During his time as Governor of Texas from 1995 until 2000, Bush ensured sex education in schools taught that abstinence was the only way to protect teens from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy.

Since Bush's abstinence only policy came into force, Texas' teen pregnancy rate - one of the highest in America - has remained the same, while the amount of STDs amongst Texan youths has risen.

Gere fumes: "The most important issue is this one, to this planet, to this time and place is AIDS. We may well have hopefully another administration in about four months in the US and along with that some sanity on this subject."

Gere added the billions of dollars spent on the Iraq campaign, "probably could have eradicated this illness".

[shaggy eel]

,,, I keep forgetting it was Julia Roberts, not Richard Gere who played lead role in Pretty Woman. Julia is the one who wore the dresses and she had longer hair than Richard. I know, I get confused too.

[tpaine]

BendingAbsurdity wrote:

What was your point in trolling me on that thread? YOU PINGED me on the topic. Let's...uh...try to stay on focus. I am a little puzzled ---

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Indeed you are..

You've posted my initial post to you on the Buckley thread.
-- Your's to me on this thread is just above.

Let the reader judge relative 'focus', howling absurdity..

--- Now, once again I must dismiss you. I have many more important things to attend to. My smoke alarms need checking. Sorry.

[conshack]

he's probably on his way to Phuket.


Hang on a minute. Phuket is a rocking place. So is Pattaya. They too have their share of A$$holes that visit.

[Mr. Mojo]

Gere took the opportunity to attack Bush's unrealistic approach to sex education

What exactly does Dick want, rodent labs?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Ok, Tom. I wouldn't want Gere on my team either. Understandable. As with Bonnie Prince Charlie, when you are outgunned, retreat is not necessarily dishonor. There's always another day.

God be with you, my son.

[tpaine]

Same to you mam.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Thank you. God is with us.

[conshack]

I thought there were remote New Age retreats for flakes like him to pursue their bizarre esoterica quietly and safely removed from normal Americans.


Like California?

[tpaine]

So what the sam hill does a gay gigolo know about sex education except how to bend over...; he's probably on his way to Phuket.
4 harrowup

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he's probably on his way to Phuket.

Hang on a minute. Phuket is a rocking place. So is Pattaya. They too have their share of A$$holes that visit.
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Boy you guys have all the luck, visiting all these exotic back doors of the world.

I can hardly get to mine because of all the emptys.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Or maybe a monastery in Tibet. That might NOT do for BoyGere though as no doubt he would miss his hot tub, wheatgrass colonics , and white wine lunches on Rodeo Drive. Not to mention the need for media attention and absorption in the maya of public opinion posturing. He offers an interesting twist on Buddhism worthy of deep study. By a team of psychiatrists.

[Clintonfatigued]

Bush and his administration don't make remarks about how Hollywood airheads run their business. And the community known as Hollywood is completely unqualified to tell Americans how to conduct public policy.

[tpaine]

Mam, please, such talk is unseemly from you -- and, -- don't forget that you have been dismissed.

[conshack]

Boy you guys have all the luck, visiting all these exotic back doors of the world.

I can hardly get to mine because of all the emptys.




Suggest you take the tax cut that GW gave and take a trip to Thailand. You would not be dissapointed(regardless of how you are inclined). It's all there..sotra like it is in California.

[conshack]

And the community known as Hollywood is completely unqualified to tell Americans how to conduct public policy.


You can say that again. Unfortunately, many Americans take what they say as gospel.

[eleni121]

According to the London Times, 13 September 1998
Art & Entertainment GETTING INTO GERE, girlie boy sex ed therapist Gere wrote a letter to Kim Basinger while she was still married to the wife beater telling her:

"How much I wish to make love to you with no withholding."

He continued his seduction of Kimmie by quoting musician Eric Clapton: "Why has love got to be soooo sad? . . . I miss you very much . . . I wish I could please you tonight."

If anyone wants the whole article let me know.

Just a gigolo...
http://www.studentski-servis.com/fotografije/bedarije/Ritchard_Gere.jpg

[skinkinthegrass]

Okay, let's get this out of the way early!

Aww, C'mon. It's funny. :))

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

But you're still here. And responding to other posts from other posters. You see...I knew you would bite on this thread. C'mon, Tom. You want to voice an opinion on Gere's philosophy of globalist condomism just as much as on those conservative boys imagining themselves in the footsteps of Chairman Bill Buckley. Cool genitallly-hip conservatives unburdened by conventional Christianity.

I just happen to think that globalist condomism is a silly tangent for constructive discursive thought.

[tpaine]

Sorry kid, back doors aren't my style.

Feel free tho. But let me warn you about Harrowup. The man is notorious on FR as one of the rankest Admirals in the navy.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Swingers. Conservative swingers. Maybe even bisexual swappies. What's that all about? Is that really something for the conservative movement? Liberating America?

[Shanda]

I haven't really followed his politics but there is something really wrong when Richard Gere is what passes for a Hollywood Heart throb.

What is wrong with handsome virile, manly men? Why do we have to put up with average looking, strange acting, girly, men?