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- From: freedman@cs.colostate.edu (keith freedman)
- Subject: AIDS question was (Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatalit)
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Nov20.184904.16437@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:04 GMT
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- In article K2G@fc.sde.hp.com, mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella) writes:
- >Van Martin (vanm@col.hp.com) wrote:
- >: Mr. Booker, dying from AIDS contracted through his
- >: homosexual lifestyle, was aware, per the article, of ways to prevent
- >: AIDS (his aunt helped him research a report on AIDS and preventing its
- >: spread). Why then would he ignore his own counsel and contract AIDS
- >: by continuing his known-dangerous lifestyle? I am not judging Mr.
- >: Booker, I just don't understand the mentality that would continue in a
- >: deadly course, particularly when knowledge of the danger is there.
- >:
- >*Any* unprotected sex is dangerous; as is "protected" sex, for that matter.
- >There is no way in the world you can make a moral judgement on someone's choice
- >to "continue in a deadly course". We all do this every day, every time we take
- >such risks as getting into an automobile or having sex with someone of either
- >gender. How petty to try to make a simple biological accident (higher AIDS
- >incidence among homosexuals in the US currently) into a moral issue.
- >
- Is Mr. Martin affraid of getting AIDS?? afraid of getting it from a homosexual?
- afraid of getting it from a lover? (by the way, I assume you're married).
- He should have no worries of getting AIDS at all if he is a "Good Christian" and
- loves his wife? So what is he so afraid of?
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- Keith Freedman
- Colorado State University
- Department of Computer Science
- Systems Administration
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