Robert Knight, founder of
Culture and Family Institute, when reminded during a phone interview conducted by
David Rakoff* that HIV is also transmitted via heterosexual sex:
"yeah, but not as much, I mean, the vagina can take a lot of punishment."
And the beauty of this is, like so many of the other bizarre things coming out of ignorant peoples' mouths, how can you argue with it?
*And as he repeated it on the
October 5th, 2006 edition of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.