Healh content (LGBT) removed from DHHS website by Sec Leavitt

[rodeodance]

http://tammybaldwin.house.gov/pr_display_page.asp?page=...

March 11, 2006

Baldwin Rallies Colleagues in DHHS Protest

60 Members Call on Leavitt to Restore LGBT Web Content

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin is leading a Congressional inquiry into actions of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to remove LGBT-oriented health information from the Department’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) website. The information was removed after it was attacked by the right-wing Family Research Council (FRC).

“It is outrageous that an organization with a long track record of attacks on the LGBT community can successfully pressure a government agency to stop providing preventative health care information to LGBT Americans,” said Baldwin.

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For years, SAMHSA had content on its website that provided basic, yet critical, educational information for lesbian and gay Americans on topics such as substance abuse, youth suicide, ethnic and cultural diversity, social support, violence prevention, and homophobia. In January 2006, after the Family Research Council (FRC) launched an attack on the website and that content, SAMHSA completely removed the information without explanation.

In their joint letter to Secretary Leavitt, Baldwin and her colleagues said, “We seek your explanation regarding the rationale behind DHHS’s decision to take down the website. Furthermore, in asking you to restore the website as soon as possible, we must warn against any revisions to the web content that would distort the LGBT community and its preventive health needs, such as equating “homosexual conduct” with “significant health risk.” We hope your Department will take a consistent and fair-minded approach in recognizing and assisting with the unique health risks to LGBT individuals.”

A full text of the letter and a list of signatories follows:

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[shenmue]

1. So the FRC...

just wants people to die?

:cry:

What a bunch of low-life @$#%?&*!s.

[TAPat]

2. The FRC can kiss my

GAY ASS! :)
Actually, come to think of it, I don't those people anywhere near my ass or any other part of my body!

[rodeodance]

3. and Tammy Baldwin in onto any thier 'revisionist" corrections!

...we must warn against any revisions to the web content that would distort the LGBT community and its preventive health needs, such as equating “homosexual conduct” with “significant health risk.” We hope your Department will take a consistent and fair-minded approach in recognizing and assisting with the unique health risks to LGBT individuals.”

[Tsiyu]

4. This just pisses me off to no end

K&R

If the fucked-up Fundies don't want to read this information, they shouldn't read it. That's it. End of story.

To deny another citizen the right to knowledge about health because of your fucking RELIGION?

These people need to be put in mental institutions, I swear.

[paul_fromatlanta]

5. Do we know what page they are talking about or what the information was?

If we could find the page there is probably a google archive.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. just great

Sounds like internets are getting policed.