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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
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 17:43:09 1985
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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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.