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Originally posted by AXEAM
Doggy
I have to agree w/what you said I believe it's about some members of the gay lifestyle wanting acceptance it's not the job of the church to help one cope w/sin but to help one turn away from sin.
Wolf
I respect what you have to say I just happen not to agree w/ it.
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Bro. Axeam-
These "issues" need not be conflated. There are all kinds of agendas that people have in the AIDS/HIV arena. Some, as you say, push for a pro-Gay lifestyle and others to use this as a political fear tactic for certain conservative political goals. What the real issue is is this: what we are doing as communities of faith to help the suffering and bringing clarity to the problem and solutions to bear, which do include a pointed moral/spiritual critique. The irony of this is is just as long as we simply frame the AIDS/HIV crisis as a "Gay" issue our community is put more at risk, because it gives some the false comfort that it's not their problem, or it has to do with some group that is sinful thus we can, with spiritual/moral authority, distance ourselves from it. In reality, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is spreading fastest among African American women, and this is the harbinger of a situation that has the making of a mulitdemensional crisis in our community of epic proportions, just as it is in Africa, where this is not a "Gay" phenomenon. If the church doesn't really want to engage this proactively as it should now, it will have to later in a horrific way.