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The Bush administration has chosen Jerry Thacker, a Pennsylvania marketing consultant who has characterized AIDS as the "gay plague," to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS.
Next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson is scheduled to swear in several new commission members. They include Thacker, a former Bob Jones University employee, who says he contracted the AIDS virus after his wife was infected through a blood transfusion.
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In his speeches and writings on his Web site and elsewhere, Thacker has described homosexuality as a "deathstyle" rather than a lifestyle and asserted that "Christ can rescue the homosexual." After word of his selection spread among gays in recent days, some material disappeared from the Web site. Earlier versions located by The Washington Post that referred to the "gay plague," for instance, were changed as of yesterday to "plague."
It's interesting how Bob Jones University is scrubbing for this guy. This is what they have on their webpage now from which the September 25th entry is gone. This is google's version which contains that day:
Mr. Jerry Thacker of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, spoke today on homosexuality.
When he and his wife discovered in 1986 that they had contracted HIV, the most horrible thought was that it was a disease connected with the sin of homosexuality. They didn't want anyone to think they were homosexual because they knew what the Bible said about homosexuality.
The media has programmed us to think a certain way about this sinful lifestyle or, as Mr. Thacker calls it, "deathstyle." Romans 1:16-32 tells how we should think about homosexuality. This passage shows a nation setting itself up for all kinds of bad things to happen, one of those is homosexuality.
Our nation has pushed away the truth, taken the Ten Commandments out of school, prohibited praying at school and athletic functions, and cast God out of public facilities. Many people believe that AIDS is the judgment of God on our nation, but Mr. Thacker believes that homosexuality is the judgment of God on America.
Here's his own personal website now:
Before 1986, Jerry Thacker was probably a lot like you. He had a beautiful family, a good church, and a rewarding ministry. He knew vaguely about the plague known as AIDS , but it seemed a distant threat. AIDS was something that bad people had to worry about. Not Christians. Not the church.
And recently:
Before 1986, Jerry Thacker was probably a lot like you. He had a beautiful family, a good church, and a rewarding ministry. He knew vaguely about the "gay plague" known as AIDS , but it seemed a distant threat. AIDS was something that bad people had to worry about. Not Christians. Not the church.
Sometimes, silence says everything.
UPDATE: Slacktivist has excerpts from his book. And, The Hamster and I think alike.
It seems as if this guy has devoted his entire life since discovering he was HIV+ to differentiating people like him, sin-free people who got the disease BECAUSE OF OTHER SINNERS, and THOSE NASTY HOMOSEXUALS, who brought the plague on themelves and POOR INNOCENT GOOD CHRISTIANS LIKE HIM.
This is hideous.