Why heteros are a lucky bunch...

Does this mean God actually DID send AIDS to punish the gays?

 

That ugly Ben, even if you meant it as a joke. Not approporiate and not funny.

 

I've seen fundies carrying signs that say that.
They weren't even with WBC, or anything.

I found the sentiment kind of funny...
He rains fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, but modern day gay people just get a virus?
: /

 

Logic is certainly not something religious people have shown themselves to be very comfortable with...

 

Just a virus? Bio weapon, my friend. Bio weapon.

 

Effective, maybe.
But it lacks the showmanship of old times, y'know?

And he certainly didn't seem to take collateral damage into account.

 

Meh, I'm more into complexity than I am into flair. To each his own.


So you want an old-testament God? If I recall correctly he did have a plague or two in there.

Please correct if this is just my false perception but non-religious people seem to be obsessed with religious people (condemnation and generalization). But heck I just generalized the generalizers so who can really say?

 

In America, how does the prevalence of HIV among the gay community vs. the straight community compare today vs. the 80s?

I assume it's nowhere near as disproportionate...

 

This means I should always have unprotected sex and participate in the lottery. If I get AIDS, I may as well win the lottery, which will give me enough money to treat my condition well. [enfp mode, i guess]

 

I remember getting tested for STDs in college and I asked my doc if I should get tested for HIV, he asked me if I was gay and I said no, so he said, probably not its not likely that you caught it unless you do IV drugs.

I told people this over the years and they went apeshit over it. I always knew it was not likely for a straight person to catch HIV from typical heterosexual activity, but its not 100% assured so I wrap up anyway. But still I remember when people would go nuts if you even pretended for a minute that HIV was anything remotely related to gays even though the numbers were pretty heavily skewed.

 

As long as both partners take the time to actually know each other i should not be a problem besides his statistics can be more of a burden to heterosexuals as they would get heir hopes up, start having unprotected sex like crazy and there, more heterosexuals have AIDS in many countries, just look at Africa for example, a continent in which many countries prohibit homosexual activity but the HIV rate is much higher. The problem is not sexuality, the problem is that people need to get informed, take precautions, and stop being so ignorant. This is not really a problem of a specific group but a problem of ignorance.

 

Not exactly realistic. Its a problem of risk vs activity. It so happens that HIV spreads more effectively via the activity homosexuals partake in then it does via heterosexuals. I think when the government refused to admit this and all the psychotic its everyone's disease not just gays groups it did more harm then good as the message didn't get focused to the right people. As a result I am sure far more homosexuals contracted HIV then they would have if the government focused on behavior/activity then on specific groups of people.

 

Right on.
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Once HIV reaches 1% in America it will spread much more rapidly.

And to think, this whole pandemic could have been stopped if the first who got the virus had been isolated.

 

With what purpose? This would be like peeing all over a house I share with 10 other people, so that it smells bad to them.