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Actually, the AIDS crisis in Africa is overwhelmingly heterosexually transmitted, and condoms are (pardon the expression) a hard sell. Even men who know they are HIV-positive absolutely refuse to use them, even bragging to foreign journalists about continuing to have sex with as many women as they please. Sounds kind of like the gay response in the very early 1980's, actually. |
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I really don't know why I drew his hair so short. |
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"I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen!'" --Jerry Falwell, on Pat Robertson's "700 Club," September 13, 2001, laying blame for the 9/11 attacks. When it became clear that Americans were not yet ready to start blaming Americans for 9/11, he eventually apologized for this remark.
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In March, 2009, Pope Benedict XIV went to Africa and put some of the blame for the spread of AIDS on condoms. Granted, if absolutely everyone in the world completely stopped having sex outside of marriage, the spread of AIDS would be greatly reduced -- but then, you'd think the church would come out in favor of same-sex marriage rights. (No, it's so much more realistic to imagine that gay people will go completely monastic.)
While I did include Jerry Falwell's face in the background of a number of cartoons in the 1980's, this one from December, 1985, may be the first in which he was the featured speaker. (Some of my very early cartoons have gotten lost over the years, so I can't be absolutely sure.) At the time, Falwell had come to the defense of the doomed regimes of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and the Apartheid government of South Africa.
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