How is this still allowed to happen?

[JackBeck]

Couple: HIV 2 Year Old Barred from Pool

A couple says their vacation was ruined when an RV park owner told them they weren't welcome after discovering their 2-year-old foster son had the HIV virus.

Last week, Dick and Silvia Glover went to the Wales West RV Park in Silver Hill, Ala., with their foster son Caleb. When the boy was banned from using the pool and showers, the Glovers said they were offered an uncomfortable and painful choice: They could either keep Caleb out of the water or leave.


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3356281

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Seriously??? This country continues to be completely uneducated when it comes to HIV transmission.

Can you believe that I still get questions about whether or not HIV is airborne?

[pepperbear]

1. this is horrible but you know what?

there's a chance that caleb may own a campground in the near future.

:hi:

[JackBeck]

4. 26 years after the first reported case of HIV/AIDS to the CDC

and we still haven't moved on from the blatant ignorance.

Godspeed Caleb and may he own and successfully run this business.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Not much of a chance with the Justice Department full of nitwits

that are currently on the job...............

[jaysunb]

2. Ouch !

This is awful...:evilfrown: more fruits of the rotten tree that threatens to destroy this country from within.

[JackBeck]

6. And our government still sends out

educational material claiming that HIV can be spread through sweat and tears.

Disgusting.

[MuseRider]

3. How can people still be so stupid

about this? It isn't like there is no information out there. How is this possible and how can they be so damned cruel in the first place?

[JackBeck]

7. People are so frustratingly cruel around this issue, MR.

We've got institutionalized misinformation about this subject. I can't begin to express to you my frustration on this issue.

[MuseRider]

10. I spent a month

nursing my brother in the hospital and I am pretty damned sure it was because most of the aides there would not come into his room for fear of catching it. He was humiliated but if I did not stay there 24 hours a day I would find him laying on the floor in his own waste. If I did not catch it after all I did for him (and others since I used to be a nurse) then there is no way you can catch it by any means the public would need to worry about.

Why are people not getting information? It used to be all over the place but now that I think about it it has been a while since I have even seen or heard about it.

[JackBeck]

12. Now? Because the Christofascists believe that their morality is a better truth than ours.

Thank you for sharing your story. The visual I have because of it is beyond intense. I may not be poz but I work in the field so every experience that I hear around this issue resonates so deep into my soul.

[MuseRider]

14. Your sig line!

I LOVE Belize! What a great character. I was never fortunate enough to see the play but I did see the movie and I loved it. Jeffery Wright was perfect.

Since it is on topic, that movie taught me so much. Our local AIDS project was so supportive and helpful to me. Still, with all I could learn during the month and a half of his time here I still had things to learn. I did not understand what all he had been going through mentally until that movie showed it to me. I had been so much into treatment models and disease process because I thought he would pull through the crisis that I missed that process entirely and had no idea why he was talking about the things he talked about.

You are right about the Talibornagin. It is astounding to me that they have such power, even over learning about a disease we all need to know about.

[mzteris]

5. that's not the reason.

Didn't you see the photo?

I was going to ask if the kid was black, and decided to go check. Yup.

This is ALA-damn-BAMA, remember?

They just used the HIV as an excuse.

(As a former foster mom whose 4 out 5 foster kids were black.)

[JackBeck]

9. Disgusting.

Didn't even think that was playing into this. I think I need to puke right now. Sometimes, I really do hate people. And I very rarely do.

[mzteris]

11. I lived in Alabama

- racism is alive and well there.

Just like it is in NC and GA.

Madison, WI has been a wonderful change of pace. I never get "the look" here because of my blended family.

[JackBeck]

13. We've been actively pursuing adoption.

And having a blended family is the major agreement we've reached. How can anyone throw hate toward kids who have parents that love them is beyond me.