Iowa Radio Station Slams Antigay Rant

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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