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To: Don Hurst who wrote (46834)	5/16/2005 4:28:41 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

But, but, but this doesn't explain Republican gays who DON'T repress their homosexuality AND are homophobic. Republican Mayor West trolls for teenage boys using his mayoral perks as payment then he turns right around and rails against...homosexuality. Eh? Huh? Whazza? It's the same kind of insanity and hypocrisy the bible thumping, self-proclaimed righteous Christian Hager who also attacks his wife...for years. Eh? Huh? Whazza? Yep, this is the guy: FDA doctor says his memo helped bar contraceptive Sermon against nonprescription sales surfaces By MARC KAUFMAN Washington Post 5/15/05 WASHINGTON - Soon after the Food and Drug Administration overruled its advisory panel last year and rejected an application to make emergency contraception more easily available, critics of the agency said it had ignored scientific evidence and yielded to pressure from social conservatives. The agency denied the charge, but an outspoken evangelical doctor on the panel subsequently acknowledged in a previously unreported public sermon that he was asked to write a memorandum to the FDA commissioner soon after the panel voted 23-4 in favor of over-the-counter sales. He said he believes his memo played a central role in the rejection of that recommendation. 'Minority report' The new information comes from a videotaped sermon given in October by W. David Hager. On the tape, Hager said he was asked to write a "minority report" that would outline why the over-the-counter sales should be rejected. Speaking at the Asbury College chapel in Wilmore, Ky., Hager said: "I was asked to write a minority opinion that was sent to the commissioner of the FDA. For only the second time in five decades, the FDA did not abide by its advisory committee opinion, and the measure was rejected." Hager told the group he had not written his report from an "evangelical Christian perspective" but from a scientific one — arguing that the panel had too little information on how easier availability would affect girls under 16. The FDA later cited that lack of information as the reason it rejected the application. "I argued from a scientific perspective, and God took that information, and he used it through this minority report to influence the decision," he said. "Once again, what Satan meant for evil, God turned into good." The videotape of Hager's sermon was first obtained by the magazine The Nation, which published a story about the doctor. In an e-mail to The Washington Post, Hager said that the request for the "minority report" came from "outside the agency," but he had previously told two other journalists — in one case in an e-mail that the recipient saved — that the request came from an FDA staffer. 'Private citizen letter' An FDA spokeswoman said Wednesday that the agency had not asked Hager to write a report and that Hager had sent what she called a "private citizen letter" to Commissioner Mark McClellan. "We don't ask for minority reports and opinions," she said. "I've been advised that nobody from the FDA asked him to write the letter." Hager has been a highly controversial figure because of his strong views against abortion and emergency contraception and in favor of abstinence education. In his October sermon, he said Christians like himself were at "war" with people who would take faith and values out of medical care. Hager was appointed by the FDA to the Reproductive Health Drugs advisory panel in 2002 and reappointed last year. A prominent Kentucky obstetrician and gynecologist, he has written books on women's health, generally from an evangelical Christian perspective..... ==============http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey "For Hager, those moral and ethical issues all appear to revolve around sex: In both his medical practice and his advisory role at the FDA, his ardent evangelical piety anchors his staunch opposition to emergency contraception, abortion and premarital sex. Through his six books--which include such titles as Stress and the Woman's Body and As Jesus Cared for Women, self-help tomes that interweave syrupy Christian spirituality with paternalistic advice on women's health and relationships--he has established himself as a leading conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality... Sex was always a source of conflict in the marriage. Though it wasn't emotionally satisfying for her, Davis says she soon learned that sex could "buy" peace with Hager after a long day of arguing, or insure his forgiveness after she spent too much money. "Sex was coinage; it was a commodity," she said. Sometimes Hager would blithely shift from vaginal to anal sex. Davis protested. "He would say, 'Oh, I didn't mean to have anal sex with you; I can't feel the difference,'" Davis recalls incredulously. "And I would say, 'Well then, you're in the wrong business.'"