The upshot of the moral panic triggered by the AIDS crisis was the claim that gays go to hell.
This was not a clearly thought-out response to AIDS but a knee-jerk reaction inspired by fear.
Other forms of disease are not associated with sin.
If your wife gets breast cancer no one suggests that God is punishing her for being a woman.
If a man gets prostate cancer he is not being punished for being a man.
So why did people say that gays were being punished by God?
It seems to me that there is a double standard here.
As for hell I don't believe that God condemns people to hell in any case.
God is our Father.
And we are His gay sons and daughters.
God loves gays.
So there might just be a Heaven.
Photo Credit: Elizabeth Noyes.
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