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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 13, 1985
Then there's the political action. The heavily homosexual West Side of
Los Angeles, for example, was instrumental in forcing the Los Angeles
City Council to pass on August 16 a far-reaching ordinance banning
•discrimination• against AIDS victims.
It prohibits schools from
shunning AIDS victims or their siblings. It prevents restaurants from
turning down customers with the disease or those merely suspected of
having AIDS.
And it bans landlords from evicting tenants with the
deadly ailment or refusing to rent to AIDS sufferers.
Dentists,
doctors and other medical workers also are covered by the ordinance.
Officials in 30 �
cities
have requested a copy of the Los Angeles
ordinance with a� obviously, to possible adoption.
Homosexuals with AIDS protest they are being discriminated against,
claim they are being •treated like lepers.• Well, the disease is so
relatively new that one would think that caution should prevail, that
isolation and quarantine should be recommended, in fact, demanded by
public health authorities. (One recent report mentions that the AIDS
virus has even been isolated in human tears!)
There is a lot of double-talk about the disease. Some of the anti
discrimination groups claim that AIDS is not a •gay disease• but one
that threatens the entire population. True, but it is still primarily
a sexually transmitted· disease and is spread across the sexual barrier
via bisexual males. Yet these groups refuse to confront the disease
the way a contagion of this ravaging nature should be fought, using the
tools of isolation and quarantine. Instead they advocate •education.•
In Los Angeles, a brochure using •street language• and provocative
illustrations persuades homosexuals to engage in •safe sex.• Another
booklet, also partly paid for with public money, entitled •shooting Up
and Your Health,• advises drug addicts (another high-risk AIDS group)
to make sure needles are clean!
"Gay activists,• writes columnist M. Stanton Evans, •are not only out
spoken in protesting any such constraints but actually sit in as con
sultants with the public health committees that make decisions about
such matters. The political leverage of the say community, in short,
.!.§. overriding public health considerati ons .•
Yet another example illustrating
Matthew 24:12--·And
lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.•
because
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau