Some evangelicals finally wake up to AIDS crisis at home

I dont believe they should allude to aids victims as "lepers" but in a way they have been treated as such by some in the US.It remains to be seen if they are sincere in their efforts but at least its a start.If we are going to criticize them (justly) for the harm they have done we should also recognize when they come around and try to do good.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10268413/

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LAKE FOREST, Calif. - After years of ministering to AIDS patients overseas, evangelical Christians are turning attention to the disease in their own backyard — and one of the nation’s largest and best-known megachurches is leading the way.

Nearly 2,000 pastors have traveled to Orange County’s Saddleback Church for a national conference that coincides with World AIDS Day on Thursday. On the agenda: How to start local AIDS ministries and free HIV testing in churches.

The “Disturbing Voices” initiative, led by best-selling author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren and his wife, Kay Warren, represents a shift among evangelicals. Many sidestepped the U.S. health crisis because of its association with homosexuality even as they made AIDS part of their missions in Africa and other places where the disease disproportionately affects women and children.

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“The church has the moral authority to say, ’Hey, it’s not a sin to be sick,”’ said Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” a best-selling book. “The Gospels repeatedly show that Jesus loved, touched, and cared for lepers — the diseased outcasts of his day. Today’s ’lepers’ are those who have HIV/AIDS.”

there are plenty of folkwith aids who aren't gay in the u..s

it's whether or not they believe that being gay or gay sex is in any way being ''in sin''.
which essentially that you're a defect of some sort.

AIDS is a blood disease and anyone can get it. The virus doesn't care if you're gay or straight if you come in contact with it in the ways you can get it (sharing needles, sex). I get so tired of that lie as well. But I am glad they are doing something and especially free testing's. I just hope they don't ask people if they are gay and start "ministering" to them. That'd be a big turn off.

From the quotes in the article it appears some of them are finally acknowledging what you just wrote when it come to aids victims


They still have a long way to go in many areas but I believe that we look just as intolerant as they have if we dont concede that they are doing something that on the surface looks like a positive step.

Hope they follow through and dont have any alterior motives.I guess we will find out soon enough.

which is really sick