Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc13.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!qumix!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc13!63628427 From: 63628427@sdcc13.UUCP (63628427) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: RE: Ban Porn Discussion Message-ID: <335@sdcc13.UUCP> Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 17:43:09 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc13.335 Posted: Tue Oct 22 17:43:09 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 02:30:29 EST References: <450347@hpfcms.UUCP> <17100001@uiucuxa> <813@ihlpa.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 39 Summary: Discussion of AIDS and venereal disease In article <813@ihlpa.UUCP>, funny@ihlpa.UUCP (g. anderson) writes: > > bill@hpflca.UUCP writes: > > > > >An exaggeration? Maybe, but there's a bit too much truth there to write > > >it off completely. It was ok for the sexual revolution of the '70's to > > >happen, and we had the largest and most wide-spread outbreak of venereal > > >desease in history. It was ok for the homosexuals to come out of the > > >closet, and we've got AIDS to reckon with. > > > > What he doesn't realize is that in Africa, where AIDS originated, it strikes > > men and women equally, without regard to sexual preference. > > > > Russell J. Price > > rp321@uiucuxa.Uiuc.ARPA > > This is a good example what happens when people fiddle with what > God has structured, he said "one woman one man". I would remind Mr. Anderson that AIDS did not spring from the act homosexual sex. The path of the disease from Africa to the U.S. is not quite known yet, but I am sure that God did not bring it here to punish the children who have gotten it through transfusions, or the health workers who have gotten it while trying to find a cure for it. AIDS is a _disease_, akin to the flu and many other viral infections. It is not an act of retribution by an angry god. It will be conquered by _humans_ that are dedicated to ending the death that it brings. Now, on the subject of venereal diseases, I seem to remember that before the current AIDS scare, there was a herpes scare that went around the country. This disease too is a venereal disease, and it was (and is) being spread during one of the most conservative times (politically and socially) of this nation's recent history. Herpes, syphillis, and gohnorea(sp?) are all _diseases_ too. They are things from _nature_, not some omnipotent source. John Ogawa U.C. San Diego Disclaimer: All that I say is mine alone, and my responsibility.