unions between same sex partners. so i think everybody has forgotten that there was a huge change. usama bin laden is dead. i maintain, juan, that s all he needs to put on any commercial or platform to be reelected. juan: mary katharine snorting. she clearly doesn t like it. mary katharine, what do you make not only of what leslie said but what bill maher said. i don t think the bin laden thing is enough on its own but he certainly gets credit for it rasmussen report showed last week 37% of liberals strongly approve of the president. down 63% a year ago. it s been a tough year. i m on the right i m unhappy with obama, right? i think actually folks on the left have reason to be unhappy gitmo stuff, libya, a bunch of an tire war leftists are like well, that s not really what we signed on for. afghanistan. other issues that they are going hey, what happened here? and then he is sort of evolving on gay issues. he won t actually come out and say what he probably believes is
through to announce in the strug dell to prevent the transmission of hiv. in a new study, they found a new combination of drugs which drastically reduced transmission in the virus. robert bazell is here with nbc news and joins us n. we re just ahead of the 30-year anniversary, as you were pointing up, on june the 5th. that was the discovery of this unusual disease and it s come a long way and now there are drugs that we have known since the late 90s are used to treat hiv, the virus that causes aids. the study shows that people who are treated heavily with the same drugs that are used to treat hiv are much less likely to infect their sex partners. it was a study of more than 1700 couples around the world financed by the u.s. national institute of health. so it s a really large study but they had such good results early on, they cut this clinical trial early. that s right. they started in 2005 and it was
and hanky panky was on the mind of several federal researchers. they just released a new survey on sex. the cdc discovered 28% of young people ages 15 to 24 say that they are virgins. that s a number that s increased in recent years. 5% of men and 13% of women survey report same-sex activity and 15% of the men, 8% of the women admit to having 15 or more sex partners. you think people really admit to those surveys, though? i think if it s anonymous, then people will dish. but if there s anyplace you could trace back what you re saying, then you re going to not on facespace facebook. continuing with that theme, actually it s a story everybody will be talking about, northwestern university is investigating a psychology professor for showcasing a live sex show to students.
credited her with getting accomplished what president obama and washington politics could not. the u.s. department of justice attorneys have 60 days now to appeal this, and legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so and they could let the ruling stand which would under don t ask, don t tell . she declared the law unconstitutional after a two week trial in federal court in riverside, california. the case was brought by the pro gay log cabin republicans. they have won a major legal ballots and don t ask, don t tell and discrimination against people who have same sex partners is now out the window. don t ask, don t tell is dead. for now. it is 3:30 in new york bottom of the hour and time for top of the news. opening statements underway in new york s federal court in the trial of this man who prosecutes say conspired with terrorists including osama bin laden in two
next step. homosexual/bi sexual individuals are more than seven times likely to contemplate suicide. they die decades earlier than heterosexuals. nearly one half admit to 500 or more sex partners and nearly 1/3 admit to 1,000 or more sex partners in a lifetime. wow. there s a lot of so-called facts in there and figures and you ll notice dr. barton does not tell you where he got them. folks at the huffington post did some digging and it seems he s citing paul cameron a psychologist and sex researcher who was kicked out for failing to cooperate with the committee during an investigation into his research. but it seems the crux of his argument is this the lifestyle of gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender people causes depression and high suicide rates.