SBC Officer Decries Appointment of 'Sodomite' AIDS Ambassador

Bob Allen
10-19-06

A Southern Baptist Convention official criticized the White House for putting an openly gay physician in charge of the United States policy to combat global AIDS.

"I think it's a tragedy to have a sodomite living with another man and being the AIDS coordinator," Wiley Drake, the SBC's second vice president said in Agape Press, "because we all know that if we do away with sodomy we'd almost eradicate AIDS."

With First Lady Laura Bush standing by, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice swore in Mark Dybul as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, a post with the rank of ambassador, Oct. 10.

Dybul took the oath of office with his hand on a Bible held by his domestic partner, Jason Claire. Rice referred to Claire's mother as Dybul's "mother-in-law," raising hackles among the Religious Right.

"I am truly honored and delighted to have the opportunity to swear in Mark Dybul as our next Global AIDS Coordinator," Rice said, according to a transcript on the State Department Web site. "I am pleased to do that in the presence of Mark's parents, Claire and Richard, his partner, Jason, and his mother-in-law, Marilyn."

"You have a wonderful family to support you, Mark, and I know that's always important to us," Rice said. >>>cont

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