I really respect Salon and I really enjoy the "Savage Love" column. I also have a deep mistrust of religious right-wingers like Gary Bauer. Unfortunately this only tripled my disappointment when I read this article. There is nothing funny about maliciously trying to spread the flu virus. Dan Savage, blinded by his apparent hate of right-wing Republicans, wasted a great opportunity for some real political satire.

What Dan Savage did was wrong, plain and simple. He played right into their hands. Imagine the scenario the gay-haters will conjure up: A gay man knowingly spreading his virus to those he hates. Savage did his own community a real disservice.

Savage should apologize as soon as possible. Salon should remember that the ignorant and even dangerous attitudes of small-minded right-wingers does not give license to inflict any type of harm against them.

-- Vik Youssef

I am old enough to remember the Nixon campaign and the "dirty tricks" employed by the Republican Party. I did not approve of those actions. I can understand how Dan Savage can be upset by Gary Bauer's position on homosexuality and feel a need to obtain firsthand information about Gary through involvement in his campaign at his headquarters in Iowa. I applaud his ethical action regarding the manner in which he handled most of the calls that he received while working at the headquarters. I was repulsed, however, by the actions which he took to spread his flu to Gary and other members of Gary's staff. Such germ warfare has been outlawed by the Geneva Convention, shouldn't it be outlawed by Salon?

-- Ronald J. Miros

Dan Savage is a sick, demented freak to try to deliberately infect others with his diseases. And Salon is just as sick to even print his article. Is it any wonder people consider homosexuals as perverts and deviants when they have people like Savage running around doing things like this.

-- Vann Clark

I laughed out loud when I read Dan Savage's account of infiltrating the Bauer campaign. I then thought about it for a bit, and I realized it wasn't all that funny. If I were to commit voter fraud, election tampering and biological terrorism, I certainly wouldn't publish it -- is Savage insane? I can't support these actions, no matter how much I disagree with Bauer's political opinions.

-- Bill Ravdin

I couldn't keep from laughing as I read Dan's column. Although I was a little disgusted at his biowar campaign, his insight into the hard right of the Republican Party and the Bauer campaign was wickedly on-target. It was an exceptionally well-written column.

-- Chris Tharrington

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