You sound very angry.

Not particularly. I am, however, stridently aggressive toward bullies. The only way to get a bully to stop abusing you is to be more vicious to the bully than they are toward you. And when someone states or intimates that I deserve to die of a “dirty sex” disease, or that I am prone to maliciously infect someone with a “dirty sex” disease, then I get mean.

That said, it looks like I misread you, so I apologize for my harsh words. You deserve a good life, too.

You sound very angry. There is no hidden meaning behind what I wrote. And my friends were engaged in the same kind of activities as myself. That I am alive and healthy is – a fluke.

I hope you find happiness in your endeavors and someone to love you as you love them – whomever that may be.

I too have been mistreated by evangelical christians and I assume the same has happened to you. I hope you are able to meet people that are kind, encouraging, supportive and most of all true.

You deserve a good life, too.

You may not believe what I wrote. That is your choice. I cannot force you to believe anything.

What an obvious thing for you to write.

I do not approve of gay sex for myself. As for others – that is their decision to decide what is acceptable to them and what is not.

You’re holding back, Mary.

Would you prefer that your gay friends not have gay sex? (Yes/No)

Is gay sex impure? (Yes/No)

My friends did not deserve to die anymore than I deserve.

I suspect you are an evangelical, for your words sound suspiciously like the “We’re all trash and deserve to die!” misanthropy that evangelical Christianity imposes upon people.

I believe Michael mentioned the sense of conflict but I don’t think the conflict was about telling or not. In reality, at the bottom line…if it hadn’t slipped out, Michael would have compelled the HIV positive guy to tell or Michael would tell him that he would. The conversation where the secret was revealed was about high risk behavior. I think Michael’s only conflict was knowing that the positive guy was going to be mad when, in fact, it was Michael and the naive guy who had the real right to be angry.

You may not believe what I wrote. That is your choice. I cannot force you to believe anything.

I do not approve of gay sex for myself. As for others – that is their decision to decide what is acceptable to them and what is not.

My friends did not deserve to die anymore than I deserve.

I don’t relish the idea I abhor it!

I don’t believe you because you wrote, “Makes you go hmmmm?” which is awfully snide. What exactly were you trying to convey with that comment? I read that you were enjoying the fact that a gay man would murder someone else with his dirty sex disease because that proves how evil you think gay people are. I don’t buy your “a person” defense. You know we’re talking about gay people.

Do you approve of gay sex? (Yes/No)

Two of my very best friends died of AIDS.

And some of my best friends are black. If your best friends were gay, did they deserve to die of AIDS because of the dirty sex they had? Did they deserve it more than a hemophiliac who gets AIDS from a blood transfusion?

The Christian right loves AIDS because they see it as a just desserts for the dirty sex that gay men have, who they think deserve to die of a painful and humiliating disease because of the dirty sex that they have.

HIV does NOT cause AIDS. I will NEVER have another “HIV test” again as long as I live.

I don’t relish the idea I abhor it! Two of my very best friends died of AIDS. And I am appalled that anyone would give consideration to a friendship over the life of another person.

My inuendo was that it makes a person wonder what kind of thinking goes into that action of allowing a person to assume a sexual interest of theirs is HIV- when you know otherwise.

You seem to relish the idea of gays being murderers. Do you also enjoy the idea of gays dying of a gay disease? This is a long-standing Christian view of gays (“Christian love”).