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Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 01:34 AM Oct 2019

New CDC Director is a dangerous Christian extremist.



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Trump’s new CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, is a dangerous Christian extremist with a history of demonizing gays and single parents.

Dr. Robert Redfield, the new Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has long standing ties with conservative Christian groups that are hostile to gays, single parents, and anyone else that offends their “family values.”

In the past, the new CDC director has worked closely with the Christian organization Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group claims that AIDS was “God’s judgment” against gays, and was punishment from God for an America weakened by single-parent households and a loss of “family values.”

CNN reports on Redfield’s deplorable record:

As an Army major at Walter Reed Medical Institute, he designed policies for controlling the disease within the US military that involved placing infected personnel in quarantine and investigating their pasts to identify and track possible sexual partners. Soldiers were routinely discharged and left to die of AIDS, humiliated and jobless, often abandoned by their families.

In other words, Redfield used his prominent position in the U.S. military to design a policy that would ultimately humiliate and punish gay soldiers suffering from the AIDS virus.
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New CDC Director is a dangerous Christian extremist. (Original Post) Grasswire2 Oct 2019 OP
Of course he is. The only ones who will work for that thing are deplorables, crooks, and catbyte Oct 2019 #1
My question is why does this asshole still have his Medical License? still_one Oct 2019 #2
Thes dangerous f*cks seem to be everywhere. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #3
Redfield is apparently not a TRUE Christian.. Permanut Oct 2019 #4
Evangelicals I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2019 #5
A fucking exterminator is what "Dr" sounds like. Sugar Smack Oct 2019 #6

catbyte

(34,403 posts)
1. Of course he is. The only ones who will work for that thing are deplorables, crooks, and
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 01:42 AM
Oct 2019

charlatans. Nobody else wants to muck up their reputations.

Permanut

(5,613 posts)
4. Redfield is apparently not a TRUE Christian..
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 05:58 PM
Oct 2019

you know, the kind who don't need doctors?

"Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven." ~ James 5:14-15

Who needs a government agency, anyway?

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
5. Evangelicals
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 06:07 PM
Oct 2019

Are unfit for any office in government or healhcare or any court or town leader.Might as well admit it. Evangelicals are too fucked in thier sense of empathy and ethics to be trusted with holding power over anyone else.
Bigotry and thier stupid beliefs should disqualify them. It used to be keep your beliefs out of politics.
What happened to that idea?
Republican Evangelical assholes.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
6. A fucking exterminator is what "Dr" sounds like.
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 06:16 PM
Oct 2019

I'm totally serious. The CDC??? Really? The ones we trusted like we trusted NOAA once. The "EPA".

The Center for Disease Control-- isn't that where all the plagues and poxes are stored? For all us whacked-out bisexuals and mouthy single parents?

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