The rally was part of a three-day event called "Erie Pride 2003," which included bingo with callers in drag, a Rainbow Pride underwear party, and a "Dyke vs. Drag Queen" softball game. One of the featured speakers was David Greer, a member of President Bush's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS who also serves on the board of governors for the Human Rights Campaign -- which bills itself as the "largest national lesbian and gay political organization" in the country.

Bob Knight

Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute in Washington, DC, says when a member of the presidential panel lends credibility and stature to a homosexual pride event, it shows the Bush Administration is more serious about kowtowing to homosexual activists than fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

"No one who truly believes in using sound measures to stop the AIDS epidemic would be speaking at a gay pride celebration," Knight says. "This is a little like somebody from the American Cancer Society speaking at a smoke-a-thon, where people are encouraged to smoke as much as possible. Gay pride celebrations celebrate the very behavior that's most responsible for causing AIDS in this country."

Knight says the AIDS epidemic is only getting worse, noting there has been an increase in HIV cases for the third straight year, the highest increase being among young homosexual men. He believes that activists like Greer and others on the presidential panel should not be shaping White House policy.

"Within the past year, a good Christian man -- Jerry Thacker -- was forced to resign from his nomination to the AIDS Advisory Council on the grounds that he had called AIDS 'a gay plague,' even though he had done no such thing. He merely repeated what some news organizations and gay groups had called it," Knight explains.

"Yet he was driven from the nomination process -- and instead we get people like David Greer from the Log Cabin Republicans [a pro-homosexual grassroots organization], who are actively promoting homosexual behavior."

It is ironic, Knight says, that homosexual activists claim AIDS is not a "gay" disease, yet the White House Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS consists mostly of homosexuals.

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