Gay Groups Decry Surgeon General Nominee

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy.
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JEFFREY McMURRAY

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