AIDS.

When the AIDS crisis first hit the gay community I heard people saying that gay men had sex with six people a night.

As if this was the reason for AIDS.

As time went by this number increased from six to ten to fifteen.

As if that was physically possible.

Everyone needed to find a reason why gay men had caught AIDS.

But this is blatant homophobia.

It's straight out of The Book of Job in the Bible.

Job's friends Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, and the young Elihu all claim that the righteous Job must have sinned in order to deserve the great misfortunes which had befallen him.

But Job maintained his innocence and was eventually justified by God and restored to his former prosperity.

Religious people in particular would do well to look at The Book of Job in relation to AIDS. 

Homosexual sex or excessive sex are not the causes of AIDS.

AIDS is caused by a virus.

It does not have a moral agenda.


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