Rob Ford Quotes
If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably.
"Councillor Ford says AIDS is highly preventable." The Globe and Mail, 29 June 2006.
No one knows whether Helms actually believed such an absurd, counter-factual statement or it was part of his anti homosexual appeal to religious fundamentalists. Most AIDS cases in America were transmitted through heterosexual intercourse. And then there were many tragic cases where AIDS was contracted through contaminated pharmaceuticals, and the substantial number of cases transmitted via intravenous use of illicit drugs where needles are shared by the addicts. Transmission by homosexual sodomy is a very small proportion of the AIDS cases.
Those were not the facts at all. A substantial number of people who get AIDS, did so from unprotected sex—especially women. By promulgating false and dangerous health information like this, doubtless some people believed him and did not protect themselves to their everlasting regret.
Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor representing Ward 2 Etobicoke North. He was first elected to Toronto City Council in the 2000 Toronto municipal election, and was re-elected to his council seat twice.