Question (composite): Your comments about AIDS and homosexuality in the March newsletter were ...

Question (composite): Your comments about AIDS and homosexuality in the March newsletter were inaccurate and promoted bigotry. Far more sexual child abuse is done by heterosexuals than by gays. Nor is AIDS “highly contagious,” and to claim it is, as you did, spreads fear. The homosexuals I know are very loving and kind. We need to love and accept them.

Response: Yes, the 98 percent of the population which is heterosexual accounts for somewhat more child abuse than the 2 percent which is homosexual. However, that 2 percent tiny minority consistently accounts for one-third to one-half of all sexual child abuse, which it considers to be normal behavior. A primary goal of the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) is the removal of all age-of-consent laws. The most extensive study done to date of male sexual child abusers reveals that the average homosexual victimized 7.5 times as many boys as the average heterosexual did girls.

If AIDS is not highly contagious, then why do we have an epidemic of it? In fact, Dr. John G. Bartlett, head of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital, recently said that by 1997, AIDS deaths will have “soar[ed] past 25 million worldwide, earning it the grim title of history’s most lethal epidemic” (Baltimore Sun, 4/1/93). If homosexuals are “loving and kind,” why do they persist in behavior which is lethal both to their “lovers” and to the population as a whole?

Consider a few facts: 1) homosexuals account for nearly 90 percent of all AIDS cases, though it is now spreading rapidly outside their ranks; 2) one who lives an exclusively homosexual lifestyle is 1,000 times more likely to contract AIDS than a heterosexual; 3) lethal health hazards such as “fisting” and ingestion of feces are common homosexual practices; 4) sadomasochism is practiced by 37 percent of homosexuals. More shocking and shameful statistics could be given, but these should be enough to condemn homosexuality from purely a humanistic/social perspective, ignoring morality.

Christ said, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent” (Rv 3:19). It is far more loving to reprove homosexuals than to “accept them.” If you truly love these misguided souls, you will point them to scriptures which call their perversion a sinful abomination to God. And you will urge them to cease from a practice which is both unnatural and lethal and which can only bring remorse and a premature and painful death.