Gay Terror and Disease in San Francisco

By Rabbi David Eidensohn

The December 24 New York Times tells how two San Francisco gay rights activists "have been charged with more than 30 counts of harassing, stalking and threatening nearly a dozen city health officials, researchers, newspaper reporters and their families over the phone." The activists were incensed that reporters and government officials publicized the fact that gays engage in unsafe sex and get disease. The reporters and government officials also talked about the possibility of quarantine, if the gays refused to continue unsafe sex. This caused the gay activists to call people in the middle of the night and threaten their children. The health officials made it clear that they will not quarantine a gay merely because he is infecting and killing people. Nonetheless, when the papers published the possibility of quarantine the activists took umbrage.

What is wrong with quarantine? Public health figures have a duty to protect the people from infectious diseases, especially those spread by sexual contact. Sexually Transmitted Diseases are effectively regulated throughout the country, and whoever applies for a marriage license must be tested in many states. Some diseases have been dropped from marital testing because health officials have basically eradicated them. This is progress. Decline is when gays spread disease and are not controlled by public health officials. The fear of the gay lobby has created a situation whereby non-gays can be quarantined and jailed for spreading disease, but not gays. A gay who knowingly spreads AIDS is a killer or damager of another human, but since gays must do their thing, public health figures look away. They are afraid to fight the gays.

There is a legal support for this "affirmative action" for gays. Throughout gay-lobby states, HIV Confidentiality Laws limit health officials in stopping HIV and AIDS. The gay lobby lobbied for a law that allows gay bathhouses to operate whereby thousands of people are infected, and then the public has to pay for it. Passed in the eighties, when the AIDS epidemic threatened the freedom of gays to engage in unhealthy behavior, these laws for years prevented raped women from forcing their attackers to test for HIV, unless she dropped charges. They prevented a hospital from telling a woman who just had a baby that she or the baby had HIV. The mother went home, nursed the baby, and often she or the baby died. Even when it was known that the baby had HIV and needed treatment no treatment was given, and the mother was not told of the condition so she could begin treatment. This was to "prevent discimination," lest someone who has HIV be considered gay and then face discrimination. This savagery was the law of New York State. Lest anyone blame Democrats and Governor Cuomo, the Senate of the New York State was strongly Republican. The only one who serious protested was a "flaming liberal" Democrat, Assemblywoman Nataly Myers from Queens. The New York Times also protested the refusal to treat babies. The attitude of the politicians was: Give the gays what they want, and let us go on with our lives. The mothers, babies, hemophiliacs, trusting partners who will become HIV-infected and perhaps die, perhaps live a hideous life, well, it's just too bad.

What is the ruckus all about in San Francisco? It is about "an almost tenfold rise in the number of cases from 1998 to this year" of syphilis in gay men. What happened after 1998? Why did the gays suddenly lose all fear of illness? The answer is that when the HIV epidemic struck, public health officials wanted to treat it like any Sexually Transmitted Disease, by reporting partners and quarantining those who refused to stop infecting others. The gays demanded that this approach not be used. They assured everyone that if only this approach was not used, and instead, huge amounts of money be given to gay organizations for "education," that this would stop the epidemic. Gay "education" did not stop the gays from misbehaving in their bathhouses, where an active man sometimes infected twelve people in one day. Gays did not waste time giving flowers. They carried a large helping of lubricant and a small amount of condoms, and did not worry about the next day. Their love was a physical one, and the infections soared. Still, the government did not deny the gays what they wanted: HIV Confidentiality Laws, no quarantine, no reporting of partners, and plenty of money for education. On the other hand, the rising number of HIV sufferers became an epidemic, and something had to be done. Once again, the gay lobby had an answer. If only the government would divert money from cancer research, if only it would prioritize gay medical needs over that of schizophrenics, diabetics, heart patients and other common illnesses, HIV would cease. The government, especially under Clinton, obliged. Millions suffer today from blood pressure that leads to strokes and living like vegetables, because the medical priority of America is for the tiny gay community, around 2% of the population.

Around 1998, the first medications against HIV began to work. The triple cocktails were enormously expensive–12k just for the medication, not to mention the constant hospital care, tests, doctor bills, etc. Almost one million people in America had HIV, and the gay disease had now spread to the inner cities, slaughtering minorities, especially the hapless women who trusted the government to protect them from disease. Druggies went first, then the prostitutes, and finally the women, until the disease raged out of control. As long as there was no medication, the government just let people die. When the medication appeared, and the cost was 12k times a million sick people, which is $12,000,000,000, the government became frightened. Now the HIV Confidentiality laws were challenged, and slowly rolled slightly back, but not removed entirely. Each state has its own version of "rollback." The obvious tactic, to treat HIV like all epidemics, is simply not going to happen. Yes, the blacks are dying, yes, health insurance, when forced to pay for gay diseases, collapsed, and millions cannot afford it. Yes, the cost of medication could bankrupt gay states like New York, which is already forced to subsidize at least one health insurer. On the other hand, the media, the colleges, the government are thoroughly intimidated by the gays. What the gay wants, the gay gets. Let people die, but the HIV Confidentiality Laws will remain. Just give them more money, for more education, for more research into a vaccine for HIV, for more…

Once the new medications for HIV came to the gay community, it celebrated by "riding bareback" and discarding the condoms. Because the gay experience is physical rather than emotional, and physical intercourse is multi-partner, gay infectious behavior is quite serious. When in 1998 syphilis in San Francisco shot up almost tenfold it reflected the successful strategy of gays to do what they want and let others pay for it. They were invincible. Gay intimidation was never checked. The only problem for gays was getting sick, and when the new medicines came about, that fear vanished. When the health commissioner of San Francisco mentioned the legal capacity of quarantine, he did not intend to use it, not even if the gays made the worst epidemic. Nevertheless, the mere fact that it was mentioned by the health commissioner and reported in the papers inflamed the sensitivities of the gay activists who for decades had used violence and intimidation and were never stopped.

Why are the two activists who threatened the children of doctors and reporters sitting in jail? Because instead of killing women, blacks, closet gays, druggies, hemophiliacs, and even mainstream American people, the activists had threatened the liberal press. When the gays threatened the liberal press, they were finished. Therefore, two gay activists, Mr. Pasquarelli and Mr. Petrelis, who merely threatened the press, are sitting in jail, while the political structure in San Francisco that encouraged gay intimidation for decades shrieks imprecations at them. While the two suffer so, the politicians who voted in the HIV Confidentiality Laws, the gays who infected thousands of people, including many minors, are not in any trouble. Where are they? They are out there infecting more people or ensuring that the political and legal structure of the country ensures death and destruction on a major scale, and the collapse of health insurance.

Yes, Pasquarelli and Petrilis are evil and dangerous people. If, however, we have suffered for over two decades from ACT-UP, it is because of the politicians, and the legal structure they established that reward ACT-UP and punishes everyone else. Putting those two in jail was right, but those who hoot at them in San Francisco who made the laws and medical procedures to spread death, have a much greater guilt. Those of us who are silent at the political achievements of the gays do not understand that spreading disease and death is biological terrorism. The gay terror is far more dangerous than the sporadic alien attack. The gay terror infects with its sick ideas and physical sicknesses the internal fabric of society.

Why punish those who only threaten, and reward those who kill?

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