I submit that it is precisely because our sexuality is ingrained within our spirituality that we have such turmoil. Let us challenge the faith community and all who profess reverence for life to seek ways to see the AIDS epidemic first as a threat to the public health, the life of the community. Let us challenge them to find ways to examine their ethics and theology to see if there is room to acknowledge that withholding life saving information from those at risk is in itself immoral. Let us continue to examine those barriers within our own institutions and agencies which block us from proclaiming a message of wholeness and healing through direct, unambiguous, life-affirming prevention messages. It is not an option.
Lives depend on it.
The AIDS National Interfaith Network no longer exists.