Michael Gerson has great new column up on how the, uh, malicious weasels (I’m paraphrasing his words) in the Obama administration dumped Mark Dybul after promising to keep him on. Dybul was the coordinator of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) under Bush:

With Ambassador Randall Tobias, Dybul organized the most staggeringly successful foreign assistance effort since the Marshall Plan — eventually helping support lifesaving AIDS therapy for more than 2 million people.
While I worked at the White House — from 2001 to 2006 — I saw Dybul combine the ability to build bipartisan consensus for PEPFAR on Capitol Hill with exceptional compassion for the victims of a cruel and wasting sickness. It mattered little to the Bush administration that Dybul was openly gay or that he had contributed to Democratic candidates in the past. He was recognized as a great humanitarian physician — a man of faith and conscience — almost universally respected among legislators, AIDS activists, foreign leaders and health experts. Almost.
A few radical “reproductive rights” groups — the fringe of a fringe — accused Dybul of advocating “abstinence only” programs in AIDS prevention. It was always a lie. Dybul consistently supported comprehensive prevention efforts that include abstinence, faithfulness and condom use — the approach that African governments themselves developed. In fact, Dybul was sometimes attacked from the right for defending a broad definition of AIDS prevention, including programs to address prostitution and transgenerational sex. Over the years, PEPFAR distributed 2.2 billion condoms — hardly an “abstinence only” approach.

Christianity Today has more on this story, as well.