Iowa Radio Station Slams Antigay Rant
BY Advocate.com Editors
August 27 2010 1:35 PM ET
WHO radio commentator Jan Mickelson's recent on-air assertions that
HIV/AIDS educational efforts only serve to condone "stupid behavior"
associated with homosexuality contained "factual errors," station owner
Clear Channel Communications said in a Thursday statement.
Mickelson made the remarks during a broadcast from the Iowa State Fair. He also criticized same-sex marriage, which he said was "designed to do one thing, and that is to get access to the back pockets of the taxpayers."
In the on-air statement, a Clear Channel spokesman said Mickelson "confused strong opinion with medical fact and contained factual errors regarding HIV/AIDS, its spread and current efforts to inform the public about this disease."
The correction was made at the urging of One Iowa, a state gay rights group that worked in conjunction with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, according to The Des Moines Register.
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