Wingnuttery kills

Among the sexually transmitted infections, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV, to its friends) is among the least glamorous. Everyone knows syphilis and gonorrhea, but for some reason HPV doesn't share their celebrity. It should, because some strains of it cause a very common and highly unpleasant problem, genital warts -- or warts wherever people's parts happen to interact, and you can use your imagination. Other strains cause cancer -- cervical, genital, anal, oral and pharyngeal. In fact, HPV is basically the cause of cervical cancer.So it doesn't take a sodomite to see that a vaccine which is highly effective in preventing transmission of HPV would be a good thing for humanity. Or so one might think. Texas Governor Rick Perry found out the hard way that this isn't so by doing the right thing for what may well be the one and only time in his term in office, and mandating that adolescent girls get the vaccine. All the lovers of Jesus  in Texas immediately raised a massive outcry because they knew that the only reason their daughters weren't having sex with the entire football team was fear of genital warts. Michelle Bachmann figured she had a knockout punch in a Republican primary debate in 2011 when she raised the issue, and said after the debate "There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result. There are...
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