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Bush Nominee Under Fire Over Anti-Gay Paper
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Bush Nominee Under Fire Over Anti-Gay Paper
Surgeon general candidate found gay sex unnatural, unhealthy
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- The Bush nominee for surgeon general is under fire over a 1991 academic paper in which he argued that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy. In the report, ridiculed by other doctors for imposing politics on science, Dr. James Holsinger compares sexual body parts with pipe fittings and concludes, "...
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