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	<title><![CDATA[Bush's Surgeon General Nominee: "Ex-Gay" Therapy On Trial]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/bushs-surgeon-general-nom_b_51499.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>James Holsinger, President George W. Bush's nominee for Surgeon General, has a dark view of homosexuals. In a 1991 <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3251663&amp;page=1">paper,</a> Holsinger describes homosexual sex in sickeningly lurid language. "Fist fornication," "sphincter injuries," "lacerations," "perforations" and "deaths seen in connection with anal eroticism," are some of the terms Holsinger concocted to describe acts with which he suggests at least medical familiarity (a case of participant observation, perhaps?). At the same paper, Holsinger puzzlingly issues no warnings about the dangers of...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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