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There's something a little fishy about Ms. Conroy's story.

First, few who hold such strong anti-gay animus as Ms. Conroy actually do a darn thing to help the sick. And second, Ms. Conroy doesn't seem aware that HIV infection is not a life sentence and that most positive people live lives virtually indistinguishable from negative folks.

Does anyone in Maine actually know if this claim is true?

K, So please...get back to us with opposing comments, WHEN they are posted by those increasingly to be loved, stubborn, 'let me live my life and I'll let you live yours.' Mainers.

These people so easily forget that when the American AIDS epidemic hit, more than forty states, including New York and California, still had and enforced their sodomy laws. What's that they say about the definition of insanity?

Timothy: I think this might be the Susan Conroy in question:

http://www.susanconroy.com/

A. 5 bucks says that story is BS.

B. I give up, this is just ****ing pathetic. These people hate us, despise us, want us gone by any means possible. Theirs simply no way you can nod along to something like "we cant teach that being _____ is okay because _____s are sick disgusting freaks" and then pretend to not hate ______s. Every single person supporting these pricks is a bigot and I refuse to ever call them by any other name.

Here's what I love: trying to access www.standformarriagemaine.com and having my company block it as a "malicious website." Loves it!

I went to the link, and Mother Theresa is prominent in it.

Mother T, ministered to the poor, the sick and those disenfranchised by domestic violence and lack of education. Most of whom were women.
Would Ms. Conroy suggest that being in that condition should make you subject to discrimination of ANY kind?
Especially from being married.

Methinks that Ms. Conroy IS full of shit. She is effectively supporting LOWER CASTE for gay people. Untouchable status for them.

When it's of note that marriage REDUCES these conditions, then she should be ALL for it for gay people too.

Her obvious admiration of Mother Theresa falls short of actually EMULATING her compassion FOR those untouchables of the lowest caste.

Susan speaks as if the act of engaging in same-gender sex creates AIDS. Her stance would make some sense if this were in fact the case, but only true ignorance comes to such a conclusion.

What about straight people with AIDS? Should they not be allowed to get married? And kids who suffer as well? Should they be banned from ever getting married as they get older?

As you've already pointed out, the glaring subtext in this pathetic diatribe is pure and simple animus. IF she volunteered to help dying gay men, she probably did it to watch what she hated disappear.

Sick woman.

Wait if we are to base sexual relationships and marriage off HIV infection rates, then wouldn't that mean that in Africa she would encourage same sex behavior and gay marriages. Because obviously HIV infection in that part of the world is spread primarily through heterosexual contact.

If she wants to actually reduce or eliminate gayness itself she'd be better off fighting against procreation than same-sex marriage, because procreation is the source of homosexuals.

Umm...is she aware that two HIV-negative people in a committed, monogamous relationship can't possibly contract the virus? I can't understand why she thinks bringing up AIDS is an argument AGAINST gay marriage, when it's sexual promiscuity (among both gays and straights) that puts people at risk for catching the virus. Isn't that sort of like bringing up the lowered life expectancy of smokers to argue against raising the cigarette tax? It seems to me that making same-sex marriage fully acceptable both legally and socially would do a great deal to encourage the kind of "healthy behavior" this writer claims to care so deeply about.

(Not that gays who happen to be HIV-positive should be discouraged from marrying. There are plenty of both same-sex and mixed-sex couples who happen to include one person with the virus and manage to minimize the other partner's risk.)

It's truly sad that these people hate us so much that they either don't realize how hatefilled and devoid of "love" their sentiments are. Or, they fully realize exactly how illogical and incendiary their lies are, and fabricate the lies in such a way as to maximize the hurtful impact. In either case, it is despicable.

Yes, that is her web site and yes here email is [email protected]

Susan Conroy's site is as slick as the Liberty Van. The last time I enjoyed browsing a site pulled from the mid 1990s was when I was in the mid 1990s. This site is designed to be easily digested on a 15" monitor with a dialup connection (hence the preponderance of text vs. graphics).

Admittedly ad hominem (websitium?) attacks aside, this woman has no clue whatsoever. Either her claims are false, limited in scope, or she has never held the hand of a heterosexual as he / she died of AIDS. Which is it, Ms. Conroy? Are you a heterosexist who will only hold the hands of dying *gay* AIDS victims but not heterosexuals'?

Hmmm... lots about Calcutta, nothing about AIDS victims.

But if Conroy really knew much about HIV/AIDS, she'd know that about 12% of gay men in the US (or, about 6% of the gay community) is infected with the virus. And that the majority of those a living a full life with a normal life expectancy.

So, using Conroy's foolish argument, only 94% of gay people deserve marriage.

When one assigns irrelevant blame for an unrelated correlation involving 12% of a populace and use that as an excuse to deny basic rights, then you are engaging in bigotry. Mother Teresa would cry, Susan.

Timothy, your stats made something else occur to me: As an STD, the most unlikely way for HIV to be spread is between two females. Using Ms. Conroy's logic, the healthiest marriages are between lesbians.

here is her email address- [email protected]
her bad 1995-era website- www.susanconroy.com

i looked and looked for her phone number but couldn't find it. i just wanted to ask her if she speaks out against alcohol, smoking and drug abuse. because if she doesn't then she is a bigot. hell even if she does she is still an up-tight bigot because there is nothing bad about being gay. the only reason people think it is bad is because they have shamed people into the closet. AHHH!
she worked with mother teresa and has made a career off of telling this story. in true mother teresa fashion she would help people to become equal and NOT judge. What a phony Catholic this Susan Conroy is.