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The “Jesus was HIV-positive” sermon

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From here:

“Today I will start with a three-part sermon on: Jesus was HIV-positive,” South African Pastor Xola Skosana recently said in a Sunday church service.

The words initially stunned his congregation in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township into silence, and then set tongues wagging in churches across the country.

Some Christians have been outraged, saying he is portraying Jesus as sexually promiscuous.

HIV is mainly transmitted through sex, but can also be spread through needle-sharing, contaminated blood, pregnancy and breastfeeding.

However, as Pastor Skosana told those gathered in the modest Luhlaza High School hall for his weekly services, in many parts of the Bible Jesus put himself in the position of the destitute, the sick and the marginalised.

It hardly needs to be said that the premise of this sermon is idiotic. Jesus had compassion for “the destitute, the sick and the marginalised”, but he wasn’t sick, destitute or marginalised himself: he didn’t become a leper, he healed lepers. And, had HIV been in existence, he would have healed those who contracted it – even if they had contracted it using the preferred method.

Gay man sues over blood donation

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The latest case of a homosexual insisting on giving blood is from China:

A GAY editor is making Chinese legal history by becoming the first person to sue Beijing Red Cross Blood Center (BRCBC) for refusing his blood. The case is now waiting to be filed at the Beijing higher people’s court.

The editor, named Wang Zizheng (his pen name), tried to donate blood at Xidan Books Building on June 6. He replied he was gay in the health questionnaire and was told he was not qualified to be a donor by officers from BRCBC.

“We don’t suggest homosexuals, both gays and lesbians, donate their blood, as a precaution for the receivers,” said an officer from BRCBC. “We are following the health standard for blood donors issued by the Ministry of Health.”

Wang felt he was being discriminated against.

“What is wrong with homosexuals?”

Every Christmas as a child, my grandmother would give me socks; but at least she had enough sense to know that she couldn’t reasonably expect me want something I loathed just because she was eager to give it to me. The curious insinuation that there is something unfair going on here reminds me a bit of this: