Posted on 07/18/2004 2:32:51 PM PDT by 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".
This from a guy who couldn't make it with one of the most beautiful redheads on the planet? ROTFLMAO
Gere seems rather extraordinarily sanctimonious for a washed-up childless busybody. Aren't there some Buddhist texts he could concern himself with quietly somewhere? I thought there were remote New Age retreats for flakes like him to pursue their bizarre esoterica quietly and safely removed from normal Americans.
Richard Gere is a pompus, gerbil-loving idiot.
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?"
"Ah, Grasshopper...when you can snatch the pebble from my hand, time for you to go..."
(1.) George Bush has NOTHING TO DO with Sex Education in BANGKOK.
(2.) A GERBIL, in ANY sex education, is WRONG unless paired with another gerbil in a cage MILES AWAY FROM DICKIE GERE!
I can only imagine the jokes he's inviting.
Is Gere one to whine that we need the US funding the UN to ship rubbers into Borneo, Djakarta, Micronesia, and Madagascar? Wouldn't he and his Hollywood producer buddies be able to handle that? Since they have so much time on their hands...
That would make a great tagline.
Just to be a bit ticklish here, aren't condoms harming the environment? Won't we have Sea Turtles choking to death on all of these condoms he wants us to pay for to have shipped into the Third World?
Richard Gere is a total idiot.
ROFLMAO...I wondered how long it would take for someone to post the Gere Gerbil connection...and you know when I saw the dateline of this story I first thought it MUST have come from the Onion...This is just too ironic
Must be the onlt time that Snopes has been wrong....lol
Like Richard Gere. Does it seem ironic for a Buddhist to be whining?
Does it seem ironic for a Buddhist to be whining?
Whining?
Is this what you're whining about, Bending Absurdily? - from your link:
"Insertion of foreign bodies into the rectum," as it is formally known, is by no means confined to gays. Many cases are ascribed to autoeroticism on the part of straights. Leaving aside victims of assault or accident, however, practitioners do have one thing in common: they're incredibly stupid."
Gere's whining. I find ALL liberals and so-called libertarians having crybaby fits that some backwoods fundy bogeyman somewhere doesn't like what they do with their willies to be....a little peculiar. Fixated masturbation anxiety perhaps. Boo...hoo...
No idea what fascinates liberals with this or why they think butt sex is a topic every American should be funding. What link are you referring to?
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