# Should AIDS patients be segregated as Huckabee suggested **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875 "2007-12-13T17:24:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875/41 "2007-12-15T20:18:35Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Isn’t it? Don’t forget, the president gets to appoint the [surgeon general.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423942) [/QUOTE] Do I have to repeat myself now? No, it isn’t relevant to me. For the record he said this about homosexuality just recently: > [@](#): > > Saturday in North Carolina, Huckabee stood his ground and said he believed that homosexuality is sinful and is not normal behavior; that it “is outside the boundaries of man/woman relationship and its tradition of marriage.” I actually agree with that on all counts (although I think homosexuality is sinful and not normal, I don’t hold any value judgment in regard to it being outside the traditional man/woman marital relationship), but that’s just my personal opinion. If I was President I would separate my personal opinion from my political actions, and would always work towards what I viewed as the common good. I think Huckabee looks at it the same way, he has said he will make it a determined effort of his Presidency to fight HIV/AIDS on a larger scale than any President has in the past. He’s committed to it, and that’s why I’d have no problem with him appointed a Surgeon General, he’s clearly capable of separating his personal feelings on homosexual from his political acts in regards to appointments. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875/42 "2007-12-18T00:46:24Z")
[QUOTE=brazil84] I’m not a doctor, but it occurs to me that since HIV/AIDS is an immune disorder, AIDS patients are a lot more likely to be carrying around other diseases besides AIDS. I’ve shaken hands with with HIV+ people many times, but I’m an adult in good health. If my father-in-law were in the hospital, I would be happier if he were away from AIDS patients. [/QUOTE] As I understand it, it is the opposite. If they have full blown AIDS, then, in simple terms, when they get another disease, they die. Your average relatively healthy person probably has more bugs running through them. Could be wrong though. ---
**Author:** ![dastex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@dastex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dastex)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875/43 "2007-12-18T05:39:49Z")
I’m a little skeptical about the homosexuality thing being wrong and sinful. It seems to me to be a personal issue between two consenting adults and no one else (definitley not the government) need get involved. I would be very skeptical of Huckabee being able to control his distrust/disgust of gays and give them a fair shake in society. For a man that wears his fundamentalism on his sleeve I think the plain message is that anything that is viewed as sinful or prohibited out to be viewed eventually as illegal and unlawful. ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875/44 "2007-12-18T15:41:36Z")
[QUOTE=DanBlather] I can forgive a conservative Republican for thinking that. After all, they seem strangely drawn to casual homosexual activity with anoymous strangers. [/QUOTE] Interesting, I wonder if that was the motivation for the Cuban government implementing exactly this policy for AIDS patients? There have been persistent rumors about Raul… ---
**Author:** ![ManiacMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@ManiacMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ManiacMan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875/45 "2007-12-18T16:25:39Z")
Huck must be doing good since people need to dig up something he said 15 years ago. Did you guys know that Obooma smoked alot of dope, and actually _inhaled_ it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aids-patients-be-segregated-as-huckabee-suggested/429875.md?page=2)