RED EYE - JUNE 7, 2014 FULL EPISODE

Tom Shillue hosts and welcomes guests Carrie Keagan, Nick DiPaolo and Ellison Barber.

Another Gay Rights Victory: Sentence for Man Who Deliberately Exposed Other Man to HIV Thrown Out

I'm not sure how a ruling that frees gay men to expose their sex partners to a deadly virus is a gay rights victory, but clearly I'm not keeping pace with the frenzied rush of liberalism through the gates of madness.

If gay marriage was marriage equality, what's this? Viral equality?

State Sen. Matt McCoy of Des Moines cut off Nick Rhoades' ankle bracelet at a gathering in Grinnell. The crowd was cheering. People were crying.

"It was totally moving and made all the work worthwhile," said Terry Lowman, who attended the event. "To me, the drama played like Jesus washing the feet of the poor. I was so totally moved."

Sure. Except the "poor" in this case was a man with HIV who had sex with another man without telling him he had it. In his defense, the other man didn't actually come down with it.

So clearly he's the innocent victim here.

In Cedar Falls, Rhoades and A.P. engaged in consensual unprotected oral and protected anal sex. Several days later, A.P. learned Rhoades was potentially HIV positive. A.P. contacted the police, and subsequently the State charged Rhoades with criminal transmission of HIV in violation of Iowa Code section 709C.1

Rhoades knew he had HIV since 1998 but he described himself as HIV-negative on the social network website where he met A.P. in 2008.

Any jury in the case would have heard evidence that "A.P. performed unprotected oral sex on Rhoades, that there was a possibility of failed protection during anal sex, and that Rhoades later apologized to the victim," he added.

The complaint was made by a gay man against Rhoades. Rhoades was not the victim here, he was the perpetrator.

Also read: CDC: Syphilis Resurgence Among Gay Men 'Major Public Health Concern'