Bush AIDS Czar who promoted abstinence and denounced condoms resigns -- after admitting he used D.C. Madam's escort service

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Bush official who promoted abstinence and denounced condoms resigns --

after admitting he used " D.C. Madam's " escort service

by Joe Sudbay

(DC) · 4/27/2007 09:53:00 PM ET

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In April of 2004, Kaiser Networks Daily

AIDS/HIV Report noted that Randall Tobias, serving as the Bush

Administration AIDS Czar, was promoting abstinence and denigrating condoms:

Tobias, who was in Berlin

for the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS' 2004 Awards for Business

Excellence, said that promoting abstinence and monogamy are " far more

effective " than distributing condoms for preventing the spread of HIV,

according to Agence France-Presse. " Statistics show that condoms really

have not been very effective, " Tobias said, adding, " It's been the

principal prevention device for the last 20 years, and I think one needs only

to look at what's happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize

that has not been working. " PEPFAR has been criticized by AIDS advocates

for placing " false hopes " on abstinence and monogamy prevention

programs, according to Agence France-Presse.

That outrageous view held by the Bush administration was widely criticized by

thinking people.

Today, ABC

News reported that the married Mr. Tobias resigned from his post as Deputy

Secretary of State after admitting he was a customer of a DC escort service

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his

resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a

customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been

charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation. Tobias,

65, Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the US Agency for

International Development (USAID), had previously served as the Ambassador for

the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.

In a Ted Haggard-like admission, Tobias said he only got

" massages. "

Abstinence is for the little people, not the loyal Bushies. They don't have to

practice what they preach.