The Scepter Institute is an AIDS ministry that Jerry Thacker runs. Recently Thacker or his aides have been busy Poindextering it. In the current copy, no "gay plague" comment appears: http://www.scepter.org/founder.asp But it does in the version snared from Google's cache: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/thacker.plague.012403.html The same with the current lack of the "deathstyle" line: http://www.scepter.org/presentations.asp Compared with the older version: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/thacker.deathstyle.012403.html I should note that the archived versions use "deathstyle" and "gay plague" in quotation marks, which isn't clear from the Post article. So does a June 2000 version from archive.org, so the quote marks weren't added recently in response to the first round of criticism: http://web.archive.org/web/20000602132144/http://www.scepter.org/founder.asp Background on Poindexterization: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04281.html -Declan --- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33508-2003Jan23.html AIDS Nominee Withdraws From White House AIDS Panel By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 23, 2003; 2:32 PM Jerry Thacker, a Pennsylvania marketing consultant whose nomination by President Bush to serve on an advisory panel on HIV and AIDS stirred controversy, announced today that he is withdrawing his candidacy for the post. Thacker, a former Bob Jones University employee who has characterized AIDS as the "gay plague," says he contracted the AIDS virus after his wife was infected through a blood transfusion. [...] In his speeches and writings on his Web site and elsewhere, Thacker has described homosexuality as a "deathstyle" rather than a lifestyle and asserted that "Christ can rescue the homosexual." After word of his selection spread among gays in recent days, some material disappeared from the Web site. Earlier versions located by The Washington Post that referred to the "gay plague," for instance, were changed as of yesterday to "plague." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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