Well our idiot dictator to be has done it again! This time he has nominated an individual for Surgeon General who promotes healing gays by praying away their lifestyle. His name? Dr. James Holsinger. You read that right: Bush's nominee for Surgeon General believes that gays should just pray harder to be cured of their choice. Except, of course, he doesn't want gays to minister or become church members. Seems he and his wife founded a church, Hope Springs Community Church, after they were asked to leave their previous United Methodist church in Lexington, Kentucky. Hope Springs Community Church is "recovery-oriented." Recovery from gayitude is one of the recoveries he preaches.

Dr. James Holsinger appears to be a heavily "faith-based" religio-political activist, and isn't likely to serve the health interests of the full and diverse community of tax-paying Americans. His record as a member and current president of the United Methodist Judicial Council, the highest church court for the Methodist Church in the US, includes votes against allowing a lesbian associate pastor, and also supporting the denial of church membership to a gay man. The latter decision was overturned by the church's Bishops.

This nomination has to go through the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. If you are like me you don't want an individual as our Surgeon General who believes that it is possible to pray the "gayness" out of an individual. You want a medical doctor who is solidly entrenched in the 21st century. To that end it is imperative that you contact them via e-mail at help_comments@help.senate.gov. If you want to contact the individual members of the committee you can find them here.

If history is any judge our objections may all be for naught. This creep may just use one of his infamous "recess" appointments. Oh well we can try.