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Ryan White’s Mama Has Words For Huckabee

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s HIV comments have caused quite a stink. We were stunned to hear that the Southern Baptist preacher man once advocated quarantining AIDS patients. Then, when asked to clarify his comments, Huckabee refused to recant his statement.

As the outraged din grows into a roar, one voice definitely deserves to be heard: Jeanne White-Ginder.

White-Ginder’s son, of course, was Ryan White: the 18-year who died after contracting HIV via a blood transfusion and captured our national heart. The Florida resident tells the Associated Press she’d like to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with Huckabee:

It’s so alarming to me. It’s very important to me that we don’t live in the darkness… We have to treat this disease like a disease, and like Ryan always said, not like a dirty word.

Huckabee may have to relearn the entire English language!

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