Letter: Keeping the faith won’t prevent AIDS

Friday, April 14, 2006 | 7:20 a.m.

President Bush's abstain and be faithful requirement for AIDS relief to Third World countries has been found to be medically unsound by the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

This is all a part of the national unenlightenment and conflict between religion and science that has gripped the nation since the election of George W. Bush.

He is an evangelical Christian and as such he is the de facto leader of the fundamentalists, who believe that the U.S. government is doing God's work, which is the saving of souls, and who dismiss government-run programs as a way to ameliorate the ills of society. In other words, don't give them condoms, just give them Jesus and this will stop the spread of AIDS.

This is part of the religious right's commitment to reduce the separation of church and state, which they call a leftist myth.

Bill Moyers said in 2004, "The delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress."

Nadia Romeo, Las Vegas