If you want to know what dangerous political correctness is you only need listen to the so-called Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, executive for health and wholeness advocacy in the national offices of the United Church of Christ. Please note that this is not the same Church of Christ you find prevalent in the South. Schuenemeyer tells cnsnews.com that the church should be “nonjudgmental” when it comes to HIV/AIDS. When asked if it was possible for a person to contract AIDS without committing an immoral act, Schuenemeyer attempted to turn the tables on the reporter. “I think your question exemplifies why we are struggling with stigma and discrimination in our culture,” he said, “because it betrays a bias about what is moral and immoral.”
A bias about what is moral and immoral? If a church doesn’t make such a distinction who will?
This is exactly why we’re seeing a resurgence of AIDS. The Salt Lake Tribune recently ran a story about a veteran AIDS worker who says the disease is making a comeback due to complacency. One AIDS patient interviewed for the story said, “I’m not the world’s keeper. It’s not my responsibility to take care of other people’s health.” He says most gay men will eventually get HIV. “It’s only a matter of time. I might be that time.”
Maybe that’s why Indonesia is contemplating requiring those with AIDS to be implanted with a microchip that tracks their movements. I’m not suggesting that we go that far, but those who infect someone else with AIDS should be, at the very least, charged with attempted murder and, subsequently, murder if the patient dies.
The reason we have AIDS in the first place goes back to the attitude of Rev. Schuenemeyer. “It’s not about whether people are engaging in moral or immoral acts. That’s a personal judgment that is being made,” he says. It’s that very “personal judgment,” or lack thereof, that causes the spread of AIDS.
Understand this. It is a colossal waste of money to search for a cure for AIDS when the solution is to stop the risky behavior. AIDS is caused by risky, immoral behavior. Period. To have some idiot posing as a reverend telling the rest of us not to be so judgmental is insane. This reverend is exactly why people are dying of AIDS. He can blame lack of funding. He can blame lack of tolerance. He can blame anything he likes. That doesn’t change the fact that AIDS is caused by two people engaging in activity they know to be dangerous. He’s just trying to make them feel better about their stupidity. What he’s going to do is get more people killed.
If you don’t have sex outside of marriage and your spouse doesn’t either, you have a better chance of winning the lottery while getting struck by lightning than you do getting AIDS. AIDS activists for years have tried to make the general public believe they were in danger of contracting AIDS. It’s a lie.
World AIDS Day was Dec. 1. What the world needs to learn?and it won’t from the activists supporting World AIDS Day?is that risky, immoral behavior kills. Rev. Schuenemeyer can play his little politically correct game all he wants to. At the end of the day, it’s the people who adhere to traditional, moral standards who will dodge this disease. Those who thumb their noses at morality do it at their own peril. Schuenemeyer evokes the name of Jesus. I ask you, Reverend, when faced with the choice of engaging in this risky behavior, what would Jesus do?
Phil Valentine is an author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host with Westwood One. For more of his commentary and articles, visit philvalentine.com.
