Opinion

Column on AIDS misstated the facts

Posted November 24, 2011 5:00 am

The Nov. 14 commentary “AIDS can be put on road to extinction” by Michael Gerson continues the outpouring of false information and political hyperbole typical of homosexual activists and their supporters.

Nothing demonstrates the article’s intentional distortion of facts more clearly than the complete omission of reference to homosexuals or their lifestyle. That lifestyle perpetuates the AIDS epidemic even as it absorbs the financial and scientific capital which has extended the life span of the AIDS victim from ten years to more than double that figure.

Could AIDS be brought close to extinction? It could be. If at the beginning of the epidemic, HIV-positive individuals had been quarantined, we would not have had those 30 million funerals mentioned by Mr. Gerson.

The “only morally acceptable strategy” called for by the author is definitely not contained within his “scientific tools.” Instead, what is required is the true test of will and conscience: A return to moral acknowledgment and practice of strict marital fidelity combined with abstinence outside of marriage.

Emmit Lehman

Grayslake

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