A conservative activist says the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Washington, DC, should prompt the government to take action against the homosexual behavior that is spreading the deadly disease.
The District of Columbia's HIV/AIDS office reports that at least three percent of DC residents have HIV or AIDS, a rate that is higher than West Africa. According to the report, heterosexual sex was the chief mode of transmission for blacks, while homosexual sex was the chief mode of transmission for whites at 78 percent. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, believes the HIV/AIDS cases linked to homosexuality are actually larger than the report claims. "The [Center for Disease Control] has never been clear -- it does not label [correctly]," he contends. "If a man is bisexual and contracts AIDS through sex with a man and then brings it back to have sex with a woman and transmits the virus that way, that is labeled a heterosexual transmission. If the CDC were more honest, that would be labeled a bisexual transmission." The DC report finds that 76 percent of the HIV-infected are black, 70 percent are men, and 70 percent are age 40 and older. LaBarbera says the government, unfortunately, is unwilling to stigmatize homosexuality and bisexuality. "There's [sic] a lot of bad behaviors going on in the African-American community," he points out. "You've got drug abuse. You've got homosexual behavior, and you've got men 'on the down low' -- that's men practicing homosexuality in secret. They don't call themselves gay, and they're helping spread the disease, and women are being victimized by these bisexual men." LaBarbera believes "it's time the government gets honest" about HIV/AIDS and takes action to shut down the homosexual bathhouses and sex clubs that are operating freely.
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