In a July 15, 2006 Anniston Star AP article, Ken Kusmer, reported on a campaign organized by the Metropolitan Community Churches (a homosexual and lesbian denomination) and Mitchell Gold, a Jewish homosexual activist. The campaign centers on the question, “Would Jesus discriminate?” The question is being trumpeted in conservative Indiana, as a “new Bible-based appeal for acceptance of gays and lesbians.” One ad for the campaign asserts, “Jesus taught us to love everyone, even our enemies and those who are different from us, not destroy or mistreat them.” Are we destroying or mistreating homosexuals?

The June-August 2006 issue of the AARP Bulletin laments that funding for the National Institutes of Health is projected to be frozen for fiscal year 2007 at the current level of $30 billion. The article shows a breakdown of where the funds are spent. The largest proposed area is cancer, with $7.8 billion. This works out to $14,006 per fatality. The smallest disease funding shown in the chart is for stroke, at $338 million, or $2,143 per fatality.

            What interested me most about the chart is the vast amounts of money spent on HIV/AIDS research. At $2.9 billion, it is third behind cancer, and influenza/ pneumonia at $3.8 billion. What is so striking is how this funding compares to fatalities. Funding for HIV/AIDS is $212,330 per fatality—almost 100 times more funding per fatality than what is spent for research on strokes, and more than any other disease. But the homosexual lobby still insists that not enough of our government resources are expended in research for HIV/AIDS!