Chapter 6
AIDS: The Politically Protected Plague
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Contents
"AIDS, for some reason, is different. It is like a basilisk. Both the public and the medical profession stare at it in fascination, but seem unable to protect themselves."
— Dr. Leon J. Podles.[1] The Homophile's Standard Accusations.
Some people may object to a chapter on AIDS being included in a book about homosexuality. They will say that this "stigmatizes" homosexuals, that most AIDS cases occur among heterosexuals, or that the topic is irrelevant to the discussion.
Like it or not, homosexuality and AIDS are inextricably linked — and always will be. AIDS in North America began with homosexuals, was spread by homosexuals, still primarily infects homosexuals, and is talked about incessantly by homosexuals.
Homosexual groups accuse the "Far Right" of deliberately exploiting the plague of AIDS in order to advance what they call its "reactionary agenda," which includes, at best, forcing homosexuals back into the closet, and, at worst, stoning them or putting them in quarantine.[2] These organizations also frequently claim that a relatively small percentage of AIDS cases are due to "gay" sex, and that even the most reasonable limitation on even the most hazardous homosexual behavior violates their paramount right to privacy.
Despite the best efforts of the homosexual propagandists in the "gay rights" movement, the AIDS plague will always be linked to homosexual behavior in the public mind — even if that collective "mind" is too intimidated to speak out. AIDS originated with homosexuals, and more than two-thirds of all new cases still occur in homosexuals and bisexuals as a result of sodomy, needle-sharing, and other deadly practices (see Table 6-1). |
Table 6-1
Distribution of News AIDS Cases in 2005 |
Source of Infection | Percent |
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Men (28,037 new AIDS cases in 2005) |
Homosexual Sex | 67% |
Heterosexual Sex | 15% |
Injection Drug Use | 13% |
Homosexual Sex and Injection Drug Use | 5% |
Other Modes of Transmission | >1% |
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Women (9,893 new AIDS cases in 2005) |
Heterosexual Sex | 80% |
Injection Drug Use | 19% |
Other Modes of Transmission | 1% |
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Reference: Centers for Disease Control. HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet, "A Glance at the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," January 2007. Pie chart entitled "Transmission Categories of Adults and Adolescents with HIV/AIDS Diagnosed During 2005." Downloaded from the Centers for Disease Control Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/PDF/At-A-Glance.PDF on January 23, 2007. |
This chapter covers the basic aspects of the HIV/AIDS virus and shows how the homosexual movement has virtually doomed itself (along with many others) with its fixation on absolute individual privacy and privilege.
Glossary.
In order to intelligently discuss this disease, pro-family and anti-"special rights" activists must be familiar with a number of basic technical terms, as listed below. These basic definitions are derived from the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms.[3]• AIDS. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A cluster of opportunistic infections affecting the body's immune system, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is characterized by the death of CD4 cells (an important part of the body's immune system), which leaves the body vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as cancers and various infections.
This virus has been known by the following names; • HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), • HTLV-III (Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus), • LAV (Lymphadenopathy Virus), • ARV (AIDS-Related Virus), • GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency), and • "Gay cancer." • AIDS-Defining Condition. Any of a list of illnesses that, when occurring in an HIV-infected person, leads to a diagnosis of AIDS, the most serious stage of HIV infection. AIDS is also diagnosed if an HIV-infected person has a CD4 count below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood, whether or not that person has an AIDS-defining condition. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs) published a list of AIDS-defining conditions in 1993. The 26 conditions include candidiasis, cytomegalovirus disease, Kaposi's sarcoma, mycobacterium avium complex, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, recurrent pneumonia, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, pulmonary tuberculosis, invasive cervical cancer, and wasting syndrome. • AIDS-Related Complex (ARC). A group of complications that commonly occur in the early stage of HIV infection, but with no opportunistic infections present. Symptoms may include one or more of the following. These symptoms must be unrelated to another disease or condition; • sudden loss of 10 percent or more of body weight without dieting; • a fever of 100 degrees or more that persists for two weeks; • swollen glands in the neck, armpits, or groin; • drenching night sweat that persists for a month or more; • severe diarrhea that persists for three months or more, and • fatigue or malaise representing a significant change in energy level. • Antibody. Also known as immunoglobulin, an antibody is a protein produced by the body's immune system that recognizes and fights infectious organisms and other foreign substances that enter the body. Each antibody is specific to a particular piece of an infectious organism or other foreign substance. The presence of antibodies often indicates that the immune system has successfully resisted an infection and that the body is now immune to the infection. Antibodies are formed against the HIV virus, but their presence does not indicate immunity to HIV. • Antigen. Any substance that can stimulate the body to produce antibodies against it. Antigens include bacteria, viruses, pollen, and other foreign materials. • Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). Treatment with drugs that inhibit the ability of retroviruses (such as HIV) to multiply in the body. The antiretroviral therapy recommended for HIV infection is referred to as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which uses a combination of medications to attack HIV at different points in its life cycle. • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus that causes AIDS. HIV is a retrovirus, and two types have been identified: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for most HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is found primarily in West Africa. • Immune System. The collection of cells and organs whose role is to protect the body from foreign invaders. The immune system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, B and T cells, and antigen-presenting cells. • Opportunistic Infections (OIs). Illnesses caused by various organisms that occur in people with weakened immune systems, including people with HIV/AIDS. OIs common in people with AIDS include pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; cryptosporidiosis; histoplasmosis; toxoplasmosis; other parasitic, viral, and fungal infections; and some types of cancers. • T-Cell. A type of lymphocyte (disease-fighting white blood cell). The "T" stands for the thymus, where T cells mature. T cells include CD4 cells and CD8 cells, which are both critical components of the body's immune system. People with AIDS experience a lowering in the number of T-cells and an inverted ratio of helper-to-suppressor cells. • Viral Load (VL). The amount of HIV RNA in a blood sample, reported as number of HIV RNA copies per cubic millimeter of blood plasma. The viral load provides information about the number of cells infected with HIV and is an important indicator of HIV progression and how well treatment is working. The Supreme Power of the "Right to Privacy." "Of all human pursuits, murder has the most deadly need of privacy. Man will go to any length to preserve the solitude in which he takes life, even to homicide, yet by no act can he more completely and irrevocably destroy it."
— William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust (1948). Introduction. The supreme law of homophiles is the right to privacy. This "ber-right" has totally overshadowed the paramount right to life that God bestowed upon every human being, as well as other basic rights such as free speech and freedom of religious expression.
The United States Supreme Court ruthlessly mined the Constitution to "discover" the right to privacy, and then used it to progressively demolish the most basic of human rights. The Court first used the right to privacy to decriminalize artificial contraception for married couples (Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965), and this, of course, led to abortion on demand (Roe v. Wade, 1973). Courts have also employed the right to privacy to sanction direct [active] and indirect [passive] infanticide, thereby depriving thousands of handicapped newborns their very lives. The right to privacy is also the weapon that is allowing euthanasia to become widespread in our society, and it has been used to spread pornography of every repulsive kind across our land.
The right to privacy is not simply some theoretical construct that has little application to real life. Homosexual groups have used it to cripple government efforts to curb the very disease that is killing them by the thousands each year. Homosexual organizations have; • Blocked blood screening for HIV; • Fought shutting down homosexual bathhouses; • Opposed curbing both male and female prostitution; • Shut down contact tracing and sexual partner notification; • Opposed making the deliberate infection of another person with HIV-AIDS a crime; • Ridiculed the chastity message; • Promoted the "Safe(r) Sex is Hot Sex" message; • Promoted the use of condoms, which have an 11 percent failure rate; and • Have supported homosexual magazines, almost all of which have "hookup" sections where men can contact other men for anonymous and group sex. Homosexuals aggressively condemn as "scapegoating" every effort made by government agencies to implement sexual contact tracing and partner notification. This means that, under current privacy laws, no epidemiological statistic is reliable, and researchers must base their work on guesses regarding statistics and trends. Some homosexual activists have even tried to stop blood screening for AIDS on the grounds that it is, according to the National Gay Task Force, "scapegoating" and "stigmatizing!"[4]
The "right" to privacy is tailor-made for the aggressive promotion of the "gay" agenda, even as it helps to kill those who promote this agenda.
The "Columbus of AIDS." Ironically, the "right to privacy" greatly contributed to the jump-starting of the AIDS epidemic in the United States by hamstringing effective public health measures against the disease in its initial stages.
According to Randy Shilts in his book And the Band Played On, the person responsible for bringing the AIDS virus to the United States was the French-Canadian airline steward Gaetan Dugas. Dugas had contracted AIDS in Europe, and proceeded to spread it from San Francisco to New York City.
Dugas had sex with at least three thousand different men, and his sexual activity did not slow down a bit after he was diagnosed with the AIDS virus in 1980. Dugas justified spreading the plague by saying that he was free to do whatever he wanted to with his own body. The lives and suffering of others meant absolutely nothing to him.
When he was in the final stages of AIDS, he would have anonymous sex with men in homosexual bathhouses, and then show his sexual partners his purple Kaposi's Sarcoma blotches, saying "Gay cancer. Maybe you'll get it."[5] Dugas, labeled "Patient Zero" by health care authorities, died of AIDS in 1984.
It is very interesting to note that the homosexual strategists successfully deflected their responsibility for spreading the disease by first successfully quashing the labels GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) and "gay cancer," and then expanding the list of "victims" into the so-called "4-H Club:" Haitians, hemophiliacs, heroin users, and homosexuals, in that order (notice who is last on the list).
A Genuine Victim. We hear much homosexual propaganda about how everyone should care for all AIDS sufferers, but this phony facade slipped a little when the homosexuals demonstrated nothing but contempt and hate towards a genuinely innocent AIDS victim — Kimberly Bergalis.
Bergalis was a 22-year old virgin, but had contracted AIDS from her dentist, Jeffrey Acer. She was enraged because she had believed the propaganda that there was "absolutely no way" to contract the disease from health-care workers. She began a crusade in support of mandatory AIDS testing for workers in the medical field.
In September 1991, Bergalis testified before Congress in support of mandatory testing. She was originally scheduled to testify on the 12th of the month. Rabid pro-abortion and pro-homosexual Congressman Henry Waxman knew that her testimony would damage the "gay rights" movement, and also knew that Bergalis was near death. So he heartlessly rescheduled her testimony for an indefinite later date, saying that he could not "find room" for her. He obviously hoped that she would die before the reschedule date.
Eventually, she did get to testify in favor of mandatory health-care worker testing — for a grand total of 30 seconds.
Meanwhile, the homosexuals heaped abuse on her, calling her, among other things, a "bigot," "irrational," "filled with hate," and "fear monger."[6]
Naturally, homosexual activists waited until after she was dead to call her case into question. They claimed that she could not have contracted AIDS from Acer, and that she was sexually promiscuous. All of these claims were buttressed with bogus "evidence" and testimony that nobody could check, since Kimberly had died.
How the "Right to Privacy" Spreads AIDS. The so-called right to privacy places insurmountable roadblocks in the path of virtually every effective HIV/AIDS transmission prevention measure known to the health care profession, and severely penalizes the victims of other diseases; • The Threat to Health Professionals. In California, the homosexual lobby has taken the quest for absolute privacy to a life-endangering extreme. A doctor cannot even inform another doctor that a referred patient has AIDS under pain of losing his medical license. Doctors cannot tell their nurses or any other health care professionals that their patients have AIDS. A doctor cannot even tell a patient's wife that he has AIDS, thereby condemning her to a protracted and painful death — all in the name of the right to privacy![7] • Judge Says "AIDS is Not an STD." AIDS precisely fits every component of the classical medical definition of a sexually-transmitted disease (STD). However, a New York State Supreme Court justice declared that AIDS and HIV are not sexually-transmitted diseases.[8] This is because New York public health workers are permitted to test for STDs and can attempt to contact sexual partners of the infected person if the results are positive. However, homosexuals didn't like this exposure, and demanded special AIDS protection, claiming as they always do that such tracing would drive AIDS sufferers underground. • Insurance Panic. In 1985, the District of Columbia caved in to homosexual pressure and adopted an ordinance that prohibited insurance companies from testing prospective applicants for AIDS antibodies or asking questions about their sexual orientation or practices during the insurance application process. Within twelve months, 41 of the 50 insurance companies doing business in DC quit the area. Premiums skyrocketed, and what had been a very wide range of insurance choices was suddenly and drastically constricted. Because of the tremendous rise in premiums, thousands of poorer citizens were left without life insurance.[9] • Insurance Fraud. Court-ordered confidentiality allows almost unlimited opportunity for homosexuals and others with AIDS to defraud insurance companies. A comprehensive study revealed that 44 percent of those with AIDS took out life insurance policies within two years of death, compared with 8 percent of those who died of all other accidental and natural causes.[10] • The Threat to Spouses. Most local and state health departments vigorously oppose mandatory premarital screening in order to preserve privacy, although this is a certain death sentence to a woman who marries a man with AIDS, and a death sentence for all or most of her children as well. The Condom "Safe Sex" Hoax.
A Prescription for Futility. Health care professionals know that sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), some of which are incurable and/or fatal, have found fertile ground to multiply in societies that permit and even celebrate all forms of permissive sex.
Unfortunately, the response of many governments and social service agencies to the AIDS epidemic was as predictable as it was fruitless. Their weapons of choice became not chastity and monogamy, but condoms and "education."
Nobody seems to be asking the most obvious question of all: If condoms are so effective at preventing pregnancy and AIDS transmission, why do nations that stress their use (particularly in Africa) continue to experience rapidly-escalating rates of teen pregnancy and an exploding AIDS epidemic?
The basic problem is simple to summarize. No matter how much "safe(r) sex" education is taught, no matter how many bowls of free condoms are left in plain view, and no matter how much contraceptive marketing is propagated, there are a number of mechanical and human factors that simply cannot be controlled, including these; • Condoms break and slip off; • They rapidly age and deteriorate in even the best of conditions; • Improper use of oil-based lubricants can degrade them; • They get broken in their packages; • They have "allowed rates" of manufacturing defects; • The users do not properly follow the several-step process for safe usage most of the time; and • Bodily secretions can get around and over a condom. Although latex condoms appear to occasionally be permeable to HIV, by far the greatest danger of infection lies in their propensity to burst, tear and slip off.
Even if only a few HIV virus particles did pass through a porous condom, the risk of infection would still be extremely small; but in those cases where condoms fail catastrophically, massive exposure to the HIV virus is inevitable. In cases of failure during intercourse with an HIV-infected person, there is the distinct possibility of a protracted and extremely unpleasant death.
The frequency of condom breakage depends upon many factors. The "family planner's Bible," Contraceptive Technology, tallied the results of 15 studies involving a total of 25,184 condoms used during heterosexual intercourse and found that 4.64 percent of all of the condoms broke and 3.44 percent of them partially or completely slipped off, for a total of 8.08 percent, or about 1 in twelve.[11] The failure rate during anal intercourse, where stresses are much higher, is significantly greater.
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The HIV virus is millions of times smaller than a human sperm cell. In fact, their comparative sizes are equivalent to a five-ton bull elephant standing next to a small housefly. This means that condoms are even less effective at preventing the transmission of HIV than they are at preventing pregnancy.
A University of Miami Medical School study showed that three out of 10 women whose HIV-infected husbands faithfully used condoms contracted AIDS-Related Complex (ARC) in an 18-month period.[12] This translates into an infection rate of 21 percent per year, 38 percent in two years, 51 percent in three years, 70 percent in five years, and 91 percent in 10 years. One article in The Lancet concluded that "The possible consequences of condom failure when one partner is HIV infected are serious enough and the likelihood of failure sufficiently high that condom use by risk groups should not be described as "safe sex"."[13]
In summary, the following point cannot be stressed strongly enough: The risk of HIV leakage by latex condoms is trivial when compared to the risk of massive exposure to the HIV virus caused by the condom's propensity to frequently break, tear or slip off.
A Case Study on Condom Ineffectiveness Against HIV. Perhaps the best large-scale example of how condoms fail to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS is presented by the Philippines and Thailand.
In 1991, both nations took concrete and comprehensive measures against the spread of the HIV virus — but in completely different directions.
The Thai Minister of Health launched a "100% Condom Use Program." All brothels were required to have supplies of free condoms, and condom vending machines were installed in all supermarkets, bars, restaurants, and other public gathering places. This program was widely accepted and implemented by the people of Thailand.
By contrast, Rene Josef Bullecer, M.D., established the organization AIDS-Free Philippines as the official government program to combat HIV/AIDS nationwide. This effort discouraged the use of condoms and strongly emphasized chastity and monogamy.
By the end of 2007, UNAIDS numbers demonstrated that the disparity in the effectiveness of both types of programs had become glaringly obvious, as shown below: |
The Battle Against AIDS:
The Philippines and Thailand Experiences
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Parameter | Thailand | The Philippines |
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Adults Living with HIV | 560,000 | 2,600 |
Cumulative HIV Infections | 1,106,000 | 2,965 |
2007 Population | 63,753,000 | 88,351,000 |
Adult HIV Infection Rates | 1 in 90 | 1 in 21,850 |
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This table shows that the Thai HIV infection rate is more than two hundred times higher than the Filipino HIV infection rate. By comparison, the current rate of HIV infection in the United States is 1 per 200 adults, one hundred times higher than in the Philippines.[14]
What lesson does this teach us?
USAID [the United States Agency for International Development] has concluded that the reason that the Philippines has such a low incidence of HIV/AIDS is that youth have a very high rate of abstinence and married people largely remain faithful to their spouses.
Of Parachutes and Prophylactics. Condom promoters sometimes offer people a choice by painting this word picture: If a person knows an airliner is going to crash, it is much better for him to wear a parachute than not to have one. Of course, they leave out the most logical course of action: It is far better not to get on the airplane in the first place!
After all, nobody has ever died from not having enough sex.
But tens of millions have already died from having too much sex. |
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NOTE: For a complete book on the ineffectiveness of condoms entitled The Case Against Condoms, click here.
For a colorful brochure in PDF format on the ineffectiveness of condoms, click The Case Against Condoms, click here. |
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"A death is a death. We are getting less return for the money than if we left it in the research of cancer and other diseases. People will die of those diseases because of the shifting of money to AIDS. We will never know their names, and no one will ever knit them a quilt or block the Golden Gate Bridge for them."
— Michael Fumento.[15] Homophile Gripes. The radical homosexual lobby repeatedly accuses the government of so-called "AIDS genocide," and asserts that the Feds "have blood on their hands." This attitude is in keeping with the "gay rights" activist's compelling need to shift the blame for their entirely avoidable predicament onto anyone other than themselves.
It is always so easy to blame others for your problems, because then you don't have to make any changes at all. To show how out of touch the mainstream media is with reality, Newsweek Magazine, which has featured AIDS on its cover no fewer than twenty times, lays the blame for the AIDS epidemic at the feet of "homophobia and religious leaders steeped in moralistic doctrine who have suppressed honest conversation about how to stop it."[16] We have to ask — Was it the priests and preachers who encouraged men to go out and have sex with hundreds of anonymous partners? Did they tell homosexuals to grossly abuse drugs and alcohol so that their judgment was impaired or destroyed? Did the preachers tell them to fanatically oppose any and all AIDS prevention measures? Or is it the media that is complicit in so many deaths, because it refuses to back time-tested public health measures, and instead coddles, promotes and excuses everything the "gay rights" movement does?
In perhaps the most extreme statement of self-excusal, Harry Hay, founder of the first homosexual organization in the United States (The Mattachine Society), accused President Ronald Reagan of developing and spreading the AIDS virus. Hay claimed that "I share with many people the secret, sneaking sensation that, on one level or another, it [AIDS] may have been introduced by reckless Republican reactionaries of the stripe of Ronald Reagan. Not Reagan himself — he's too stupid."[17]
Contrary to the high-profile posing by Hay and many others, the facts show that Federal expenditures on AIDS research, education and prevention are much greater than for any other killer, including all heart diseases, strokes or cancers, even though the latter diseases cause many more deaths.
One indicator of the priorities our country sets on health care is the amount of money spent on disease prevention relative to the impact that disease has on the general population in terms of deaths, days of sickness, and other measures.
AIDS now claims an extremely high and disproportionate share of limited research and preventions funds. As of 2006, annual National Institutes for Health (NIH) expenditures per death for AIDS were 33 times that for heart disease, 17 times that for cancer, and a staggering 107 times that for stroke, as shown below. |
Table 6-2
Comparative National Institutes for Health
Expenditures on AIDS and Other Diseases[18] |
Disease
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Deaths | Total Annual
Expenditures | Expenditures
Per Death |
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HIV/AIDS | 16,316 | $3,780,000,000 | $231,674 |
Diabetes | 74,219 | 1,055,000,000 | 14,215 |
Parkinson's Disease | 17,997 | 223,000,000 | 12,391 |
Cancer | 556,902 | 7,732,000,000 | 13,884 |
Alzheimer's Disease | 63,457 | 652,000,000 | 10,275 |
Lung Disease | 192,256 | 1,682,000,000 | 8,749 |
Heart Disease | 685,089 | 4,836,000,000 | 7,059 |
Liver Disease | 69,956 | 408,000,000 | 5,832 |
Stroke | 157,689 | 340,000,000 | 2,156 |
Septicemia | 34,069 | 42,000,000 | 1,232 |
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Table 6-3
Basic Statistics on U.S. AIDS Cases
and Federal AIDS Expenditures, 1981-2006[19] |
Year
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AIDS
Cases |
Annual
Deaths
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Living
with AIDS | Annual
Federal AIDS
Expenditures |
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1981 | 199 | | | $ 500,000 |
1982 | 744 | 444 | | 8,000,000 |
1983 | 2,177 | 1,436 | | 25,000,000 |
1984 | 4,442 | 3,266 | | 61,460,000 |
1985 | 8,215 | 6,682 | | 108,618,000 |
1986 | 13,166 | 11,537 | | 233,812,000 |
1987 | 21,070 | 15,451 | | 900,000,000 |
1988 | 31,001 | 19,657 | | 1,600,000,000 |
1989 | 33,722 | 26,355 | | 2,300,000,000 |
1990 | 41,595 | 29,934 | | 3,100,000,000 |
1991 | 43,701 | 34,651 | | 3,900,000,000 |
1992 | 45,789 | 39,970 | | 4,500,000,000 |
1993 | 103,533 | 43,306 | 174,369 | 5,300,000,000 |
1994 | 77,268 | 43,975 | 197,060 | 6,300,000,000 |
1995 | 71,547 | 47,533 | 214,711 | 7,100,000,000 |
1996 | 66,885 | 48,250 | 237,687 | 7,700,000,000 |
1997 | 58,492 | 35,863 | 265,464 | 8,800,000,000 |
1998 | 46,521 | 23,420 | 288,565 | 9,700,000,000 |
1999 | 45,104 | 22,245 | 311,424 | 10,800,000,000 |
2000 | 40,758 | 18,706 | 320,177 | 12,200,000,000 |
2001 | 41,868 | 16,980 | 341,773 | 14,400,000,000 |
2002 | 42,745 | 16,641 | 364,496 | 15,200,000,000 |
2003 | 44,232 | 17,404 | 388,477 | 16,800,000,000 |
2004 | 44,108 | 17,453 | 415,193 | 18,500,000,000 |
2005 | 44,198 | 16,316 | 425,910 | 19,800,000,000 |
2006 | 44,000 | 15,500 | 440,000 | 21,000,000,000 |
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Totals | 1,017,080 | 572,975 | | $190,337,390,000 |
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Table 6-3 shows that the Federal government alone has spent more than $190 billion on AIDS and its victims. 2006 Federal expenditures work out to nearly $48,000 per person with AIDS — and this is for one year only! Care, cash and housing allowances work out to about two-thirds of this amount, or $32,500 per person per year.[20] No other group of disease sufferers receive even ten percent of this amount of direct assistance — and this number does not include direct assistance from state and local governments and private funding.
All of this shows the power of the homosexual lobby as it greedily consumes every penny it can get its hands on for its very small percentage of the population, thereby depriving millions of others of badly-needed assistance and doing very little to amend its own very efficient disease-generating behavior. Like horribly spoiled children, homophile leaders demand more and more and more money, completely heedless of the suffering of others.
Christopher H. Foreman, a political analyst with the Brookings Foundation, says that homosexual demands for unlimited AIDS money constitute "... a remarkably successful lobby. In an era of diminished budgetary resources, many other things in the public health sector will not get money."[21]
In the opinion of the AIDS lobby, nearly two hundred billion dollars is still not enough. The leading homosexual lobby group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), is a $30 million-a-year organization whose president rakes in a quarter million annually.[22] It has given the Bush administration consistently failing grades in all areas of addressing the AIDS threat;• An "F" in prevention, because the Bush administration promotes chastity education, the only certain way to stop AIDS, and because it insists on defining marriage as between one man and one woman, which the HRC labels "narrow right-wing ideology;" • An "F" grade in AIDS research funding, because it received only a one percent increase (HRC ignores the fact that AIDS research funding is already grossly bloated compared to all other disease research); • A "D" in care and treatment, despite the fact that the Federal government spends more than $32,000 annually per AIDS victim; and • An "F" on "ending AIDS-related stigma/discrimination" for opposing same-sex "marriage" and biased hate crimes bills that would have given the homosexual lobby virtual veto power over all opposition.[23] Perhaps we should assign the "gay rights" movement a few grades of our own.
Let's begin with an "F" for prevention, an "F" for taking responsibility for its own actions, and an "F minus" in caring for the rights of anyone but itself.
Conclusions on AIDS Funding. AIDS deaths have decreased by more than two-thirds in the past ten years, but funding has nearly tripled during this time.
This is exactly what pro-family people are talking about when they deride "special rights" for homosexuals. For millions, the debate is more than theoretical: Nobody will ever be able to calculate the number of people who have died because the diseases they suffered from lacked researchers to work on them due to the massive diversion of funds to AIDS. The funding for AIDS is gigantic and constantly expanding, while other diseases that kill far more people go begging for even the basics.
But still AIDS funding climbs relentlessly, because lawmakers know that if they vote against any increase, the homophiles will instantly brand them as "hate-filled" and "homophobic." Congressman Ernest Istook said that "The media pressures and influences depict AIDS as the horrible disease as opposed to one of many horrible diseases. There is frankly a fear among many members of Congress that they will be depicted as people lacking in compassion if they dare mention that [other diseases] afflict far, far more Americans and cost this country far, far more than AIDS does."[24]
Thanks to the strenuous efforts of the medical profession, AIDS has been transformed from an automatic death sentence into a chronic debilitating disease. But billions of condoms and "Safe(r) Sex" messages have not decreased the number of new annual infections (see Table 6-3). The death toll has decreased, but the number of people living with AIDS is steadily increasing, putting a huge strain on the health care system.
It would not be so if the "gay rights" movement had behaved responsibly since the appearance of the disease.
Dr. Leon J. Podles. "Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad." Fidelity Magazine, October 1987. Page 20. As one example, Julianne Ross Davis, General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), said during an October 24, 1990 address to the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, that "The American Family Association ... has a 24-point political agenda it would like to see attained by the year 2000. It includes the elimination of democracy, elimination of public schools, advocates that astrologers, adulterers, blasphemers, homosexuals, and incorrigible children be executed, preferably by stoning. That's one of our enemies. This is true" ["AFA Sues General Counsel." The Wanderer, December 6, 1990, page 2]. United States Department of Health and Human Services AIDSInfo Office. Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms. 5th Edition [October 2005]. Downloaded from the HHS Web site at http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ContentFiles/GlossaryHIV-relatedTerms_FifthEdition_en.pdf on January 24, 2007. Journal of the American Medical Association, February 4, 1983; New Dimensions Magazine, March 1990. "The Columbus of AIDS." National Review, November 6, 1987, page 19. W. Shephard Smith, Jr. "The Politics of AIDS." Reprint offered by the American Family Association, Post Office Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Also see Malcolm Gladwell, LA Times-Washington Post Service. "Last Crusade for Bergalis Set to Begin." The Oregonian, September 26, 1991, page A3. Senator H.L. Richardson of the California State Assembly. "AIDS — Deadly Disease With Civil Rights." National Federation for Decency Journal, August 1987, page 13. Mona Charen. "There's Poison Here All Right!" American Family Association Journal, February 1989, page 12. K. Clifford. "Insurance Attorney Alleges Fraud With AIDS Coverage." American Medical Association News, May 8, 1987, page 2; Father Richard Butler, O.P. "Are They Really "Gay?"" Fidelity Magazine, October 1987, page 12. Ibid. Robert A. Hatcher, et. al. Contraceptive Technology (17th Revised Edition) [New York: Ardent Media, Inc.], 1998. Table 16-3, "Prospective Studies of Condom Breakage and Slippage," pages 330 to 332. "Evaluation of Heterosexual Partners, Children and Household Contacts of Adults With AIDS." Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), February 6, 1987. Jeffrey A. Kelly and Janet S. St. Lawrence. "Cautions About Condoms in Prevention of AIDS." The Lancet (Journal of the British Medical Association). February 7, 1987, page 323. UNAIDS Individual Country AIDS Updates at the UNAIDS Web site, http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/default.asp. Alan K. Ota. "Outing." The Oregonian, June 24, 1990, page M1. Claudia Kalb and Andrew Murr. "Battling a Black Epidemic." Newsweek Magazine, May 16, 2006. Outweek Magazine, June 27, 1990, page 95. Fiscal Year 2006 research expenditures are from United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes for Health. "Estimates of Funding for Various Diseases, Conditions, Research Areas." March 10, 2006. Downloaded from the Web site of the NIH at http://www.nih.gov/news/fundingresearchareas.htm on January 24, 2007. HIV/AIDS includes general (2,904 million), pediatric AIDS (274 million) and vaccine research (602 million). Cancers include brain cancer (156 million), Breast cancer (657 million), general research (5,590 million), cervical cancer (96 million), childhood leukemia (60 million), colo-rectal cancer (282 million), liver cancer (82 million), lung cancer (288 million), ovarian cancer (106 million), prostate cancer (376 million) and uterine cancer (39 million). Heart diseases include cardiovascular (2,341 million), heart disease (2,096 million) and coronary heart disease (399 million). Lung diseases include pneumonia (154 million), pneumonia and influenza (317 million), tuberculosis (158 million), tuberculosis vaccine (26 million), and general (1,027 million). These figures do not include the substantial amount of money spent on income subsidies for patients and for direct patient care. Annual death figures are from United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Reference Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical Abstract of the United States [Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 2007 (126th Edition)]. Table 110, "Deaths by Selected Causes and Selected Characteristics: 2003." Downloaded from the Web site of the United States Census Bureau at http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab on January 24, 2007. Annual death figures are from United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Reference Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical Abstract of the United States [Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office], 1988 Edition (Table 170), 1989 Edition (Tables 177 and 181), 1990 Edition (Tables 115, 119, 185 and 188), 1991 Edition (Tables 120, 190 and 193), 1992 Edition (Tables 119, 192 and 193), 1993 Edition (Tables 131, 201 and 204), 1994 Edition (Table 206), 1995 Edition (Table 213), 1996 Edition (Table 215), 1997 Edition (Table 215), 1998 Edition (Table 224), 1999 Edition (Table 142), 2000 Edition (Table 131), 2001 Edition (Table 110), 2002 Edition (Tables 174 and 177), 2003 Edition (Table 190), 2004 Edition (Tables 177 and 180), 2006 Edition (Table 177), and 2007 Edition (Tables 175 and 178); Centers for Disease Control. HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet, "A Glance at the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," January 2007. Table entitled "Estimated Numbers of AIDS Diagnoses, Deaths, and Persons Living with AIDS, 2001-2005." Downloaded from the Centers for Disease Control Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/PDF/At-A-Glance.PDF on January 23, 2007. Federal funding figures are from Todd Summers and Jennifer Kates. "Trends in U.S. Government Funding for HIV/AIDS — Fiscal Years 1981 to 2004." Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2004. Downloaded from the Web site of the Kaiser Family Foundation at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/4 on January 24, 2007. "Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS: The FY 2005 Budget Request." Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2004. Alan K. Ota. "Outing." The Oregonian, June 24, 1990, page M1. Human Rights Campaign IRS forms 990, as well as financial information on all of the nonprofit organizations in the United States that have gross receipts of more than $25,000 annually, are available on http://www.guidestar.org. "Third Annual World AIDS Day Report Card Continues to Give Failing Grades to U.S. Response." December 1, 2006 press release downloaded from the Web site of the Human Rights Campaign at http://www.hrc.org on January 25, 2007. Michael Fumento. "The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease." The American Spectator, December 1998.
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