Posted on 06/03/2006 3:08:12 PM PDT by pleikumud
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history.
Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.
Its spread was hastened by ignorance, prejudice, denial and the freedoms of the sexual revolution. Along the way from oddity to pandemic, AIDS changed they way people live and love.
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What a horrible thing to say, you...you...hater! (breaking into tears)
/professional AIDS cash scrounger mode
Wow! How long ago was that? Does this still happen today?
anyone who since (I'll be generous) 1988 has contracted HIV through promiscuity, odd sex, or needles has bought the ride he has received. period. paragraph. end of story. I have pity for those who get infected through other, non behaviorally-related, methods, but I shall not squander my concern on foolish risk-takers getting a full set of lumps - be they sodomites, junkies, smokers, "rooftop runners", "human shields", etc...
It was about 35+ years ago. I don't know if it still goes on. Really screwed up my life. And I wasn't even contagious!
Yep, and after 100 it'll hit 200, yawn.
In Africa I hear it isn't as much a gay sex issue at all.
You heard wrong.
The transmission of aids is overwhelmingly by sexual contact.
It is relatively difficult to contract as a male during heterosexual relations.
Males, nonetheless are the primary communicators of the disease.
They contract it by anal intercourse with other males.
They then spread the disease to everyone with whom they have relations.
A lot of Africans get AIDS because of the way they have sex. The males want to "think" that they are having sex with a virgin. They will put things in the vagina of the women to increase friction to simulate the "feel" of a virgin. This causes bleeding and thus the transmission of the disease among heterosexuals.
I had to read that twice. You get aids from eating monkeys.
How bizarre these theories are.
Unless of course monkeys are not monkeys.
One contracts aids by promiscuous behavior or contact, direct or indirect, with someone who has been promiscuous.
This disease is one more STD and one more wakeup call to men that When God instituted marriage and fidelity inside and outside marriage, He knew what He was talking about.
Sorry
Especially when the woman is not a woman and the vaginal lining is not the vaginal lining but the intestinal mucosa.
Actually, and it's well documented, the AIDS scourge initial breeding ground (in North America) was in the bath houses of lower Manhattan. It quickly spread to the San Fransisco area ... thus the reference to California. So my question ... why is there no condemnation of the gay life style in the liberal media? Could it be many of them are gay or just pansy liberals?
Without question it was (is) the gay community that foisted this worldwide AIDS pandemic that today is killing millions of people around the world. Once again where's the condemnation?
Hate to break it to you again with facts and common sense but gay sex in it of itself does not lead to disease & death.
May not be the cleanest practice of sexual activity but if one engages in sex with a virgin one is assured of not falling to your "disease and death" theory.
Even the ones that got it simply from getting donated blood?
So why is the word "innocent" in quotation marks? This victims of AIDS due to contaminated blood and other medical procedure WERE innocent victims. They contracted the disease precisely because others who were immoral and licentious in their behavior gave them the disease.
Stop the immoral and licentious behavior and AIDS will evaporate like dew on grass on a hot summer morning.
No argument from me-I agree completely. Guess that makes me a hater too! (by lefty definitions)
oh, you thlack-jawed thadithtic neanderthalic beatht, you!
Some seem to think that all this disease and death would have happened even if gays didn't exist.
I think the truth is exactly the opposite; if there were no gays engaging in gay sex there would be no HIV/AIDS health crisis. Gays are the root cause of the problem. Congress is forever passing new laws for our "general welfare", dealing with diseases, environmental hazards, air traffic safety, seat belts, occupational hazards, etc., but our elected representatives have blindfolds on when it comes to gay sex. At a minimum, it should be national policy (law) not to recognize gay marriages, and not allow gays to adopt children.
Hate to break it to you again with facts and common sense but gay sex in it of itself does not lead to disease & death.
You are living in La La Land.
According to the bible it does. Romans 1 and Galations 6 for starters.
Now I can either believe the Bible or a promiscuous apologist for the homosexual community---you, for instance.
Maybe I'll just believe God's Word.
Yeah ... don't forget regulating food proportions in restaurants. Going back a day or two on a thread similar to this one an individual posted a response that I found interesting. During the 1980's this individual was diagnosed with TB which required a seven month stay in a sanatorium to cure. During this same period gays diagnosed with incurable AIDS were simply told to refrain from dangerous sex and wear a condom. Need I say more?
Some of them young girls who are raped.
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