World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. I've been dreading it since I walked by the Chapel Monday morning and saw all the wooden crosses stuck into the ground. Since I go to an ELCA Lutheran school, I knew it couldn't be in memorare for something important, like war casualties, victims of Abortion, the slaughter of Christians in
"December 1st is World AIDS day. These crosses commemorate all the Minnesotans who have died from AIDS since 1985. One cross represents 50 Minnesotans."
my heart stopped beating, my head started spinning, and I began to detest the idiots and their ignorance here more than ever.
Why are we commemorating people who have died from AIDS? They have fought no greater battle than a supermodel with an eating disorder, a smoker with lung cancer, or someone with skin cancer addicted to a tanning booth. AIDS is just another disease, one that people die from. Moreover, it is one that people inflict upon themselves. Aside from the almost eliminated cases of contracting HIV/AIDS through a blood transfusion, AIDS is only transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids. When do people exchange bodily fluids? When they have sex! When do people have sex? Whenever they feel like it! With whom? Anyone who is around, especially a significant other who has been someone else's significant other who has been someone else's...!
Why are we commemorating Minnesotans who have died from AIDS? There are so many more people in the world who suffer, AIDS or otherwise than a few Minnesotans with an STD. In
If each of those crosses that represent 50 Minnesotan sinners were to represent the amount of babies killed by Planned Parenthood in the 2004 fiscal year, each cross would represent thousands. If each cross represented the amount of people harmed by the social injustice resulting from the 8 years of Bill Clinton's presidency, it would represent hundreds. If each cross would represent the number of students who have graduated from college in
Its time that the ELCA, the office of Peer Assistants, and the American people analyze what they stand for, and make some drastic paradigm shifts!
posted by The Village Idiot at 12/01/2004 11:12:00 AM
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Actually, there's a valid reason to give condoms to Ugandans.
I was in Kenya on a missions trip a few years back, and there were condom ads everywhere. Like, even on billboards. I asked our hosts what was up with that, and they explained that those ads were primarily aimed at MARRIED couples. See, what with the AIDS epidemic in Africa, lots of people have AIDS. And if one spouse has it, there should be a way to help the other spouse from getting it. In addition, Africa is a place where family planning really is needed. You see, people in Africa are poor. Very poor. And so they can't afford to take care of more than a few kids. So the choice comes down to either trying to give them some birth control, or seeing them abandoning their newborn children, especially girls, because they can't afford to raise them. Not perhaps a choice we'd like to make, but until and unless someone figures out how to end poverty in Africa, it's what we're stuck with.
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