Republican Candidate Wanted to Tattoo People With HIV… in 2005

metroweekly.com:

Hagerstown Herald-Mail in 2005, claiming that it was time to take the threat of HIV seriously.He suggested that people infected with the virus receive tattoos that would be “in a spot covered by a bathing suit,” in order to warn potential sex partners of the risk they are undertaking when being intimate with an infected person.“An effective way to enforce the consistency of the tattoo would be to provide medicine to the infected individual only after they have received the HIV tattoo,” Parrott wrote, while also arguing that the better solution to combating HIV is to promote abstinence outside of marriage, with abstinence-only education being pushed in schools.Presumably, given Parrott’s vocal opposition to legalizing marriage equality in 2011 and 2012, this would also mean that only heterosexual married people should be encouraged to engage in sex.Trone’s ad capitalizes on that letter to the editor, seeking to portray his Republican opponent as extreme, radical, and out-of-touch.“If Neil Parrott had his way, every HIV-positive American would have to be tattooed, including all 3.7 million infants and children,” a narrator says as pictures of children flash across the screen. “Parrott wrote an op-ed actually proposing to force HIV-positive men, women, and children to be tattooed — or withhold their medication.

Yeah, crazy. In fact, the only thing crazier would be sending Neil Parrott to Congress.”Trone’s ad drops just a month before the general election.While Trone defeated Parrott by a 20-point margin in 2020, the 6th Congressional District has since been redrawn after Republicans challenged a General Assembly map passed by the Democratic-led legislature.Biden defeated former President Donald Trump by a 61%-38% margin..