The GAY news-Ryan White's mother welcomes chance to discuss AIDS with Mike Huckabee- have u read this article?

Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of Ryan White -- who attracted nationwide attention after contracting HIV from a tainted blood treatment in 1984 and died at the age of 18 in 1990 -- said she welcomed the opportunity to speak with Republican Mike Huckabee to discuss his comments about AIDS. "I think if we meet I'm going to give him one of Ryan's books," she told The Advocate, referring to the book her son authored about his battle against AIDS.

White-Ginder requested the meeting after Huckabee, a former minister whose presidential candidacy has recently caught fire, defended his 1992 statement that the federal government needed "to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.'' Speaking on "Fox News Sunday" last weekend, Huckabee declined to retract the comment but said he was not suggesting that AIDS patients should have been quarantined. He did not offer an alternative explanation for how people living with AIDS at the time could have been isolated.

White-Ginder also hopes to bring with her some folks who are living with AIDS. "They're very responsible, they're back to their jobs because of the meds, and I would just like him to see the new face of AIDS today. It really saddens me to think that they don't have a presidential candidate's support. We have to respect the disease and the people who have it."While campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday, the former Arkansas governor told the Associated Press, "I would be very willing to meet with them. I would tell them we've come a long way in research, in treatment."

Though Huckabee's meteoric rise in the polls nationally and in the early primary states has put his record under greater scrutiny, White-Ginder was surprised there wasn't more of an "outcry" about his recent comments or even the statement he made back in 1992. "It was a big disappointment really, because a presidential candidate even referring to that information in 聭92 was unrealistic," she said, recalling the early

Mike Huckabee Bible preacher candidate who cares little for those with AIDS.

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