From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ AIDS: Another Pro-Life Controversy by James M. Scutero Once again the Catholic Church stands firm on a Pro-Life issue only to be derided by those who would benefit most from Its teachings. The Church has vigorously pleaded with those who are at risk of developing AIDS to abstain from premarital sex and illicit drugs. Along with these sound prevention messages, it has opened its doors and continues to be the largest private provider of support services to PWA's (People with AIDS) in the United States. Despite the Catholic Church's efforts, however, self-promoting AIDS 'activist' groups such as ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) have launched many "Stop the Church!" campaigns. From my point-of-view as a PWA, it is obvious that ACT-UP is causing a commotion, not to help those like myself, but to use AIDS as a platform to promote its own political agenda. That agenda is the call for special rights for homosexuals. Many homosexuals believe that AIDS and special rights for homosexuals are intrinsically linked. The ADVOCATE is a gay magazine that has published several articles that echo this sentiment. In the September 6, 1994 issue, in the article, "AIDS: Still the Issue", Torie Osborn warns that the trend to separate AIDS from the national agenda of gay and lesbian politics must be stopped. Osborn writes, "In horrible irony it has almost become more acceptable in this sick, homophobic society to have AIDS than to be gay," saying basically that promiscuous sexual behavior and terminal illness should be viewed with equal compassion. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in Greenwich Village, where in 1969, a small number of homosexuals rioted and attacked police as a response to police raids on the establishment. This incident, where homosexuals used violence to defend a saloon, is credited as having given birth to the gay rights movement. On June 26th, 1994, a march was held in New York City to mark the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riot. Many gay rights groups solicited funds for the anniversary march boasting that a portion of every donation will be used to promote "AIDS awareness." In its fund-raising letter, the Stadtlanders Foundation asked for funds to create a one-mile-long rainbow flag which is the "official" flag of homosexuals. The letter read, "It's a chance to show your support of Lesbian and Gay Pride and to help AIDS charities at the same time." The Catholic Church is an AIDS charity with a difference: it helps PWA's without supporting the homosexual deathstyle and that is the reason why ACT-UP hates the Church so much. The Church gracefully helps those afflicted with AIDS quietly and without fanfare. It does not solicit funds from homosexuals and accomplishes its mission with volunteers. Conversely, the more than 18,000 gay-related AIDS organizations in this country spend tremendous amounts of money on gala events, staff and fund-raising activities. Because of the incestuous solicitation of funds between the various gay/AIDS organizations, many of them are crying poverty. Through financial mismanagement, PWA's are usually the last to receive any benefit from these money-mills. A good portion of the donated monies are allocated to the nebulous promotion of "AIDS awareness." Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is a multi-million dollar AIDS organization in New York City. In its subway advertising campaign, homosexuals are shown embracing, Saran-wrapped in latex and spermicidal creams, practicing "safe" sex. Other campaigns are geared toward people who shoot drugs into their veins. GMHC tells these addicted people that they should use a clean and shiny needle when they inject illicit drugs into their bodies. This gives the impression that homosexuals and drug addicts are unable to control their carnal lusts and will stop at nothing in order to get sex and drugs-even during a plague! When the Church offers the rational approach of restraint through abstinence, it is attacked by the gay fundamentalists from ACT-UP, lending more support to the theory that saving people from the scourge of AIDS is not the primary agenda of the gay-centered AIDS organizations. The founder of the "safe" sex campaign was a homosexual named Michael Callen. He authored a booklet entitled, "How to Have Sex in an Epidemic" which vigorously promoted the use of condoms. The late Mr. Callen also ironically authored a book entitled, Surviving AIDS. In it he recounts, "GMHC and other critics retorted that by focusing attention on the incidence of the many sexually transmitted diseases common among promiscuous gay men, we were 'shouting guilt from the rooftops.'" Instead of shouting guilt for promiscuous behavior, Edmund White, the co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex, proposed that, "gay men should wear their sexually transmitted diseases like red badges of courage in a war against a sex-negative society." The wearing of red ribbons has become chic and is almost mandatory at many society functions. Red ribbons are not worn to call awareness to AIDS but are a promotion of homosexual ideals. As a Catholic with AIDS, I find them quite offensive and prefer to wear a cross. Michael Callen wrote about the desperate homosexual deathstyle, "...I had racked up more than three thousand different sex partners in bathhouses, back rooms, meat racks and tearooms. As a consequence, I had the following sexually transmitted diseases, many more than once: hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis non-A/non-B; herpes simplex types I and II; venereal warts; amebiasis, including giardia lamblia and entamoeba histolytica; shigella flexneri and salmonella; syphilis; gonorrhea; nonspecific urethritis; chlamydia; cytomegalovirus (CMV), and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) mononucleosis; and eventually cryptosporidiosis..." A condom will not stop the spread of some of these diseases, yet, the public is told by the gay/AIDS industry that latex, perhaps like a lucky rabbit's foot, protects an individual from evil. Drugs are an integral part of the homosexual deathstyle. They are used to numb the senses thereby suppressing an underlying self-hate enabling the user to perform sado-masochistic acts of debauchery without guilt. One homosexual dance club that celebrates this phenomenon boasts loud music, peep booths and a 100 foot "K-hole". This "K-hole" refers to the loss of peripheral vision experienced by club patrons due to the ingestion of an animal tranquilizer nicknamed "Special-K". Many homosexual dancers have been known to go into shock on the club's dance floor because of this drug. Many denizens of homosexual dance clubs ritualistically ingest an aphrodisiac designer-drug named "Ecstasy." The September 21, 1994 New York Free Press, a NYC free newspaper, describes the scene at a dance club in an article entitled, "Best Religious Experience": "...the communion is Ecstasy, and like any other form of religion the desired result is spiritual transformation...bowls of fruit are passed...The scene is Dionysian in every sense, harkening back to trance dances of ancient times..." Ecstasy dries the fluid in the spine and is very dangerous, but some homosexuals use it to "put them in the mood." That mood appears to shout, "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!" The first 41 cases of AIDS were reported by Lawrence K. Altman in a New York Times article entitled, "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals" dated July 3, 1981. Altman writes about the health practices of the first men who were afflicted AIDS, "...the reporting doctors said that most cases had involved homosexual men who have had multiple and frequent sexual encounters with different partners, as many as 10 sexual encounters each night up to four times a week. Many of the patients have also been treated for viral infections such as herpes, cytomegalovirus and hepatitis B as well as parasitic infections such as amebiasis and giardiasis. Many patients also reported that they had used drugs such as amyl nitrite and LSD to heighten sexual pleasure." More than 11 years after this article was published, The United States Department of Health and Human Services released a report giving a breakdown of everyone who was diagnosed with AIDS in the U.S. from the beginning of the epidemic through September 1992. Of the 238,095 people who were diagnosed with AIDS in that 11 year period, 214,650 (90%) were people who had sex with homosexuals, shot drugs or had sex with a person who shot drugs. People who received tainted blood products numbered, 6,786 (3%). The number of women who were diagnosed with AIDS during that period was 25,947 (11%). Of that number, 12,844 (50%) women shot drugs themselves and 5,612 (22%) women had sex with a person who shot drugs. These numbers are tragic and I am by no means attempting to belittle them, I just want to put AIDS into perspective. During that same 11 year period, millions of children were slaughtered with the blessings of the gay/AIDS activists through the cowardly and murderous act of abortion. Of the roughly 2,000,000 people who died in the United States in 1992 (not counting the murdered babies), 22,500 (1%) died of AIDS. These are not plague numbers. In the same year approximately 900,000 people died of heart disease and 500,000 died of cancer. These are plague numbers! After 13 years, HIV/AIDS has not spread to the general population and has for the most part been diagnosed in homosexuals, drug users, people from impoverished countries, and recipients of tainted blood products. For this reason many researchers believe that HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS and that other health threats, called "co-factors", might be involved. Some scientists believe that illicit drugs, other infections, AZT, contaminated blood products, malnutrition, stress, poor sanitation and subsequent parasitic infections are co-factors of AIDS. I know many people who have removed these co-factors from their lives only to see their conditions improve. Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in the U.S. and Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in France are both credited with having discovered HIV. Dr. Montagnier believes that another organism, called a mycoplasma, must be present in order for HIV to cause AIDS. Coleman Jones in the October 1994 issue of SPIN Magazine quotes Dr. Gallo as saying, "I think that if HIV is not being expressed and not reforming virus and replicating, the virus is a dud, and won't be causing the disease..." Dr. Gallo believes that a herpes virus, named HHV-6, might be a co-factor along with HIV as the cause of AIDS. He also believes that HHV-6 might play a part in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Condoms do not stop mycoplasma and HHV-6 infections, so once again the Church's teaching on abstinence is appropriate. Any attempt to blame a lifestyle as a cause of AIDS, however, is vociferously attacked by the gay/AIDS terrorists. "You're blaming the victim!", they cry. AIDS is their vehicle for gaining acceptance. "HIV=AIDS=DEATH" is their mantra and they will stop at nothing to enforce it. In their hysteria, they have broken into our churches and have defiled the Holy Eucharist. They have attacked medical researchers and have corrupted science with their politics. They lie to the public about sex and drugs. And, they take away hope from those who need it most by insisting that HIV is always fatal-which it is not. I thank God, the Father Almighty for giving me life through His Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ. And I thank His Church for standing like a rock amidst the swirling torrent of lies that emanates from the homosexual culture of death. ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan site by the archive maintainer. Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties. E-mail bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu)