>From A.E. Wilder-Smith's AIDS-Fact without Fiction. "Had our schools and their teachers known and appreciated the words of the Holy Bible with respect to homosexuality, had today's priests and religious instructors taught lessons on the Old and New Testament in a conscientious manner, then many children would have had the chance of appreciating that anal intercourse is a perversion of human sex life that has psychological (aggression) and physiological (epidemic disease) consequences. These teachings are so serious that homosexuality was punished by death and the exclusion from God's People in Israel(4). The terminology used in the old scripts about sodomy is UNAMBIGUOUS. SODOM and SODOMY were the direct causes of God's judgement and the New Testament confirms the rationale of this severe sentence. The fact that the modern world thinks differently about these practices is only A CONFIRMATION THAT TODAY'S SOCIETY IS BECOMING BLATANTLY AND AGGRESSIVELY POST-CHRISTIAN." (4) Deut. 23:17; 1 Kings 14:15, 22; 2 Kings 23:7; Gen 13:13; Gen 19; Rom 1:19-33. --------------------------------------------- Misc quotes from AIDS: Facts without Fiction. "AGGRESSION AND AGGRESSIVENESS" It seems to be rather certain today that some lifestyles cause aggressiveness. The eruptions of violence and aggressiveness everywhere are giving many politicians headaches. Movies and TV show more and more violence -- for violence is entertainment indeed! In the spring of 1988, a 13 year old girl went on trial for an alleged knife murder of another adolescent. In America some teachers have asked to be allowed to carry weapons during school hours. In line with this trend, 200,000 homosexuals violently demonstrated in Washington in 1987. They threatened to terrorize blood banks by infecting them with the HIV virus. They would encourage other homosexuals to donate blood if more money was not made available for AIDS research. If this threat became reality it would constitute the pitiless murder of patients who received the infected blood during surgery or for other reasons. This kind of murder is pure terrorism, just as is the case with hijacking. Only the actual technique would be more subtle. The Bible gives indirectly the first authentic story about some of the consequences of homosexuality (sodomy). The city of Sodom was known for the practice of homosexuality and of violence in the ancient world. Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14), a mighty king in this area, attacked the town of Sodom and took Abrahams's nephew, Lot, his whole family, and the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah and Zoar hostage and brought them to Damascus. When Abraham and his people heard about this, they surprised Chedorlamoer north of Damascus and brought Lot and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrha back without loss. Abraham did not request any reward for this courageous action -- only the provisions that he and his people had used. Why cite this example? To show that Sodom and Gomorrha should have had every reason to be grateful to Abraham and Lot, but they were not. When God (the God of Abraham) decided to send his envoys to Sodom to get further first-hand information about matters in Sodom, the envoys spent the night at Lot's house. But when the men of Sodom found that out, they besieged Lot's house and threatened to break in the doors. They demanded the envoys as prisoners so that they could rape the men homosexually. Lot instead offered them his own two daughters for the night! Apparently, the Lot family had absorbed a little bit too much of the sodomic culture! The men of Sodom rejected the offer and again set about breaking in the doors of Lot's house. The divine envoys then struck them with blindness so that they searched for the doors in vain. But the Sodomites were certainly violently and unjustifiably aggressive when they ought to have been grateful to Lot. We conclude that the homosexual Sodomites did not feel in the least obligated towards Abraham and his family, including Lot, although without them they all would have been the slaves of King Chedorlaomer. Secondly, they were in no way thankful. On the contrary, they were violent to a degree. Their homosexuality was indeed a strong passion resulting in aggressiveness of the most shameless sort -- they insisted on raping Divine envoys and in preference to the opposite human sex! During the course of lecturing at various European universities, I have had the opportunity of observing situations in some feeble ways similar to the ones reported on in this biblical story. In some lectures, I have spoken about the medical aspects of AIDS. Groups of homosexuals and feminists have often attended. When some medical facts are not as they would like them, these people often start cacophonies with whistles, flutes and other instruments. This noise often makes continuation of the lecture impossible. One of my colleagues once tried for 1 1/2 hours to speak about abortion in a Northern German university. In vain. Every time it was mentioned that in the west AIDS was transmitted mainly by homosexuality, there was deafening cacophony in the lecture hall -- whistles, trumpet blowing, etc. What an expression of blind aggressiveness! The good Book links the homosexual practice of Sodom with the above type of violent behavior. One reads: "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither wee thankful(grateful): but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.... Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:... For this cause God gave them up into vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet... God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:" (Romans 1:21-31). Surely little comment is needed. It seems that homosexuality and its practice causes a behavioral stimulus which does not only interfere with the normal relationship between the sexes but which also gets into conflict with normal relationships in society in general. Harmonious human life becomes impossible. For these reasons alone I think it to be important to state that homosexuality does not only have medical consequences (AIDS where HIV infected partners are concerned), but also spiritual, psychological and mental consequences. The use of condoms certainly can reduce the risk of the bodily illnesses resulting from promiscuity. The psychological, spiritual and sociological consequences, however, of promiscuity, even when practised with condoms will not be excluded. Homosexuality and promiscuity involve the whole human being body, soul and spirit. For these reasons, it seems no wonder that the fathers of the United States constitution and of other countries too, formulated their anti-sodomy and anti-promiscuity laws so forcefully. As long as the majority of a population kept to a monogamous way of life, the existence of some HIV or other virus posed relatively little threat. Whenever, however the virus was introduced into a promiscuous, heterosexual or homosexual society, then an ideal opportunity for the spread of viruses of this kind was offered. This is why sex emancipation is still providing the ideal "agar culture medium": for the spread of the AIDS epidemic. >From pages 171-174, "Epilogue".