FC: President Bush's AIDS nominee Poindexterizes his web site

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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

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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."

   [...]




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