The Christian conservative group
American Family Association (AFA) has suggested allowing AIDS to run
rampant, since it's only killing gay and bisexual men.
In a blog post published on World AIDS
Day, Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis at the AFA, wrote that
“we know what causes AIDS: homosexual sex and injection drug use,”
and goes on to suggest that taxpayers should stop funding AIDS
research.
“Homosexual activist groups likewise
are pushing a lifestyle that kills. If anybody should be obligated
to pony up funds to mitigate a health crisis, it ought to be the
organizations that are responsible for advocating the very behavior
that created and perpetuates the epidemic.”
“In other words, the same approach we
take to kids and smoking. American tobacco manufacturers were forced
to cough up over $200 billion because they peddle a product that
kills people.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
recently added the AFA to the same list of hate groups as the Ku Klux
Klan, the Nation of Islam and the Aryan Nations for its opposition to
gay rights.
Fischer rejected the designation,
arguing that “what the SPLC calls
'myths' about homosexuality turn out to be what neutral observers
call 'truths' about homosexuality.”
Fischer asserts that it's true that
“homosexuals controlled the Nazi Party and helped orchestrate the
Holocaust,” that “homosexuals molest children at far higher rates
than heterosexuals,” that “hate crime laws will lead to the
jailing of pastors who criticize homosexuality and the legalization
of practices like bestiality and necrophilia,” and that being gay
is a choice.
In an earlier blog post, Fischer
reached out to troubled gay teens considering suicide. He wrote that
he was “here to help” and urged the teens to “resist homosexual
impulses” which will “leave you diseased, lonely and dead.”