Conservatives

Conservatives can have the darnedest policies. I was reading about an anti-HIV campaign. Don't get me wrong, 'coz I think these are worthy efforts that will save lots of lives and prevent unnecessary suffering. However, despite their knowledge of the reality of HIV infections within the drug-user and gay communities, the authorities decided to leave the gays out of it.

Now, I understand that their national policies are probably against gays and all that, but why would a government deny their own people education in such a critical area? And that's especially since it's a high risk community that may spread disease beyond itself if the problem was allowed to go unchecked? In a situation like that, I think the people would be quite pissed that they are exposed to the risk of contracting a known fatal infection due to the inaction of their conservative leaders.