Tobias demanded "loyalty oaths"

[Lanya]

Official Caught Using Escort Service Demanded Anti-Prostitution ‘Loyalty Oaths’

Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”

Aid groups bitterly opposed the policy, charging that it “was so broad — and applied even to their private funds — that it would obstruct their outreach to sex workers who are at high risk of transmitting the AIDS virus.” But President Bush wouldn’t budge. He signed a 2003 National Security Presidential Directive saying prostitution “and related activities” were “inherently harmful and dehumanizing.”

Several groups and countries had their funding cut due to the policy. Brazil lost $40 million for “one of its most successful anti-AIDS strategies, persuading sex workers to use condoms or other measures to stop spreading the disease.”

During an “Ask the White House” online chat in 2004, Tobias defended the policy, saying the U.S. was “partnering with communities” to begin “fighting sex trafficking and prostitution, while still serving victims of these activities.” Tobias added that he was overseeing several “highly successful” relationship programs “aimed at men and boys to help them develop healthy relationships with women.”

A truly inspired idea, having someone who pays for “gals come over to the condo to give me a massage” run programs on developing “healthy relationships with women.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/28/tobias-prostitution/

[BT]

Has Tobias admitted he paid these massage therapists for sex?

Didn't the owner of the agency deny that that was a service offered?

So what do you really have but an opportunity to titter about massages?

Thought the dems were all about keeping noses out of peoples bedrooms!

Guess not.

[Mucho]

Has Tobias admitted he paid these massage therapists for sex?

Didn't the owner of the agency deny that that was a service offered?

So what do you really have but an opportunity to titter about massages?

Thought the dems were all about keeping noses out of peoples bedrooms!

Guess not.

We love sticking our nose in your Repub bedrooms(even though we have to hold them strongly) because you have stuck your sick morals into ours.

BTW if all he wanted was a massage, he could have called a male Swedish masseuse like Ted Haggard. LMFAO@U

[BT]

I'm just curious why you automatically assume he was paying for sex.

What evidence do you have that it took place?