BIBLE IN THE NEWS

October 1987

AIDS CARRIER KILLED IN BRAZIL

While little is being done in the United States to stop the spread of

AIDS, a story from Brazil illustrates what may take place in the near

future in America. It is a tragic, but all too real possibility. Perhaps,

if enough of our people will demand proper information be given on AIDS and

that proper steps be taken to protect the public, such terrible actions

will be avoided.

DOCUMENTATION: San Jose Mercury News, July 22, 1987 RIO DE JANEIRO,

Brazil -- A crowd of onlookers surrounded a man who was said to have

intentionally spread AIDS, and three gunmen killed him on a street here, it

was reported....About 100 people watched as the gunmen pumped pistol shots

into their victim, 30, who had been hooded, bound, and forced to lie on the

pavement. The killers put a sign on the man's body reading: "I no longer

spread AIDS. I was one of three sexual criminals who made this district

unsafe." Several women and men have been raped here recently. The rapists

were reported each time to have said: "We are dying of AIDS. But we will

not die alone."

This is an example of anarchy in the streets. It seems that Brazil has

no more of a plan to combat AIDS than does the United States. The

population must be protected from the virus. It has been predicted that as

more and more victims of AIDS die the probability of blood terrorism and

sexual terrorism will increase. Already on the West Coast, one man having

AIDS has knowingly given blood under false names. The killing in Brazil is

the result of the failure to take proper public health steps. This "I

won't die alone" attitude has been called the "Doc Holliday Syndrome." Doc

Holliday had tuberculosis. Before he died he tried to give it to as many

other people as he could. AIDS victims surely should be cared for, but the

public has a right to be protected. Having AIDS does not confer the right

to infect others or to expose other to infection. The acts that spread

AIDS are performed by those who have AIDS. "Safe sex" is not "AIDS sex."

The last verse of Romans 1 speaks directly to the issue: "Who (homo-

sexuals) knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things

are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that

do them."

Jesus Christ and His Word are the solution to the AIDS epidemic.

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