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FWIW, I think AIDS is massively UNDER-REPORTED in Africa.

Well, surely I don't have to lecture you on the necessity of sound science in epidemiology. Opinions don't count for anything.

AIDS carries an incredible stigma there that taints the entire family. Unlike here, where we're told 25% of gays are seeking out the disease.

As worthwhile as that story is, even I don't accept their estimate of 25%. But I'm quite sure it isn't 0% either.

I've been in these debates on FR before so I'm compelled to brandish my conservative credentials. I vote straight Republican, attend a Presbyterian church regularly, read a lot of history, am a white, heterosexual parent and spouse, a well-paid professional who loathes affirmative action, politically correct stupidity, and Nancy Pelosi.

No one is questioning your conservative stance or your personal integrity. By the same token, your personal qualities do not automatically transfer to any victim group for whom you have sympathy or whose illness you don't find adequately explained by current theories.

And the more you read about this, the more you're brought to the sickening, numbing conclusion that it will not end until Africa is devoid of black faces.

Or until a once-burgeoning population finds leaders who will attend to sanitation and disease-prevention. You should read Quigley's Tragedy and Hope for a historical perspective on how these issues influence the development and longterm prospects of civilizations and individual countries.

As worthwhile as that story is, even I don't accept their estimate of 25%.

So you don’t think having unprotected homosexual intercourse counts as actively seeking the bug? I liken it to Russian roulette, if you didn’t have a death wish you wouldn’t even think about playing…so called “bug chasers” are no different.

25% of new AIDS cases should easily fall into that category.