The Velvet Mafia

So Bush's appointment to be surgeon general is causing "contreversy" because he wrote that being gay is unnatural and unhealthy.

Let's ask, is it natural? No. Is it healthy? The AIDS epidemic was widely spread, how?

As for his church activities, I thought a person’s religious beliefs and church activity was a personal choice and was not to be factored into his or her fitness for office?

I think at the end of the day Bush yanks the nominee because he is afraid of the Velvet Mafia.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy.

Also, Holsinger helped found a Methodist congregation that, according to gay rights activists, believes homosexuality is a matter of choice and can be "cured."...