STOP THE STUPID TESTING IF YOU ARE NOT SICK!
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Whenever AIDS was discussed in the public sphere, it was the gay community that repeatedly came under fire for endangering the entire nation:
If homosexuals are not stopped, they will in time infect the entire nation, and America will be destroyed. — Rev. Greg Dixon, Moral Majority spokesman.34
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals. — William F. Buckley, Jr.35
I think we should do what the Bible says and cut their throats. — Rev. Walter Alexander, First Baptist Church, Reno36
Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Ca) was one of the most strident anti-gay voices in Congress. He hired Paul Cameron as his AIDS adviser, who was an early advocate of quarantining AIDS patients.37 Rep. Dannemeyer repeatedly demanded that Surgeon General C. Everett Koop begin mandatory testing of all gay men for AIDS and their names entered into a national database. Dr. Koop refused, believing that it would drive the disease underground and keep people from seeking treatment. At one point, Rep. Dannemeyer telephoned the Surgeon General and demanded to know why he refused to begin mandatory testing and reporting. Dr. Koop recounted that phone call, in which he told Rep. Dannemeyer:
“I told you, that’s not within the power of the Surgeon General, but for reasons I’ve also explained over and over, I wouldn’t do it if I could. But suppose just for the sake of argument, I could and did. Suppose I called you next week and said I now knew who every seropositive [HIV-positive] person was in the whole United States. What would you do?”
After a long pause, Dannemeyer, as I recall, replied, “Wipe them off the face of the earth!”38
