Ake:

It is not for me to go to bat every time some dingbat group comes up with yet another air-brained concept. I really don't care if some gang of homosexual supporters want to name AIDs as a homosexual disease anymore than I would if a whacky gang of women decided to claim headaches as a female disorder. It doesn't change the vectors or the realities involved.

The thing is, though, the health vector would actually be reduced by less promiscuity, an effect that marriages would tend to bring about, generally.

As you seem comfortable generating moral codes for other people, you might do more good in the world if you confronted the tough items like moral codes for politicians and business executives, a bit trickier than "thou shalt not fuck" postures.

The bottom line, though, is that you wish to reserve a civil, legal status for a perceived "us" and deny it to a perceived "them". The usual word for this very human impulse is discrimination. And as the people of Mississippi learned, every individual has to face that dark stain of the soul on their own and decide for themselves whether to be for it or agin it. Me, I'm agin it.


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