What chick fil-a did wrong was to reveal their prejudice against homosexuality
I want to be a stickler and point out the difference between doing something
wrong and something
objectionable because much of the debate lies in that difference, but really, I guess this sums it up.
So I'mma talk about AIDS instead.
Let's face some home (and away) truths here:
1) AIDS is not a "gay virus". Also, learn that AIDS is not the thing that's being spread, it's HIV. AIDS is a consequence of contracting HIV and this consequence can be delayed using anti-retroviral therapy. And AIDS being a syndrome, the term is a status that denotes an umbrella of associated conditions. Now go look up what HIV actually does and how it's transmitted. You'll find that modes of transmission involve both seminal fluid and blood.
2) Therefore the commonest modes of transmission were unprotected sex of any kind, and HIV contaminated blood. The latter isn't so much an issue in most first world countries, there's all kinds of screening (some reasonable, some ridiculous) involved in the donation process. Which leaves unprotected sex, which is the major form of transmission across the world.
3) You'll find that heterosexual transmission is far far more common in actual HIV epidemic countries (like Africa), where there's not only a cultural objection to using protection, but also cultural practices that compromise natural defenses and increase the risk of successful HIV transmission.
4) However again in first world countries, we do tend to pay more attention to homosexual transmission because to be frank, the incidence and prevalence of HIV +ve status predominantly comes from the MSM population (men who have sex with men). Whilst educational campaigns on HIV/AIDS were initially effective, once they eased up, some rather dangerous beliefs among subsets of the GLBT population started circulating, as well as this sense of HIV martyrdom in which people were using their HIV status as a form of 'solidarity'. Quite an uncomfortable home truth, but not surprising: in the absence of education comes mythology, especially in a marginalised and therefore distrustful, elusive community.
But after saying all that, I ask this: which one among you who talks about AIDS and how much "the gays" have to do with it, has a grasp on how to deal with it?
Homosexuals just want to be left alone and treated like normal people while having their pervert-parades and dressing acting like fruit-cakes.
If normal people would lighten up, have pervert parades and dressed up and acted like fruitcakes on a regular basis, I think the world would be a gayer place
