AIDS Carrier Killed In Brazil
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 (homosexuals) 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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