I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Well, isn’t this special…
My good friend Pope Benedict XVI announced that condoms are not the way to address the AIDS crisis in Africa. But wait, he didn’t stop there.
From MSNBC:
“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon, where he will begin a seven-day pilgrimage on the continent. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.”
Um, increases the problem? The use of condoms in magnetic couples (in which one partner is HIV positive and the other is not) has proven to prevent the spread of the virus. In addition, with the implementation of widespread condom availability in the 1990′s, the gay community was able to drop rates of HIV infection.
But the Pope doesn’t want to talk about actually protecting people; he would rather push an agenda of abstinence-only education. You know the old failed policy the Bush administration and supporters relied on for so long? It’s the same policy which South Africa depended upon, in combination with HIV denialism; the policy turned a blind eye to the rape of young girls, a practice which many ignorantly believed would cure them of HIV
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