o are incapacitated by the illness areoutlined. Of course, no compassionate treatment on this subject would be completewithout the recommendation to advocate on behalf of increased governmentinvolvement in the above-described recommendations. (ibid 9)At least Ms. Webster recognizes the necessity of addressing such sensitive issues asmonogamy and abstinence but note how she phrases these as if they were morallyequivalent to using condoms and not sharing needles! Unlike ANIN, she is willing todiscuss the relationship between the behavior and disease, but the half-sentencedevoted to not engaging in the behaviors at all is dwarfed by the eleven pages devotedto living with the behavior and its consequences.A perspective which acknowledges accountability is what I would call the revelationand repentance approach. Johnny Chatham is a person who, as a young man,embraced the homosexual lifestyle. He became alienated from his parents and soughtto justify his behavior [and demonize his parents reaction] to himself. After he testedpositive for HIV, he went through the typical periods of denial and resignation [which,ironically included a party phase]. (Chatham 1-4) His parents were practicing Christians and, after much struggle, convinced him to comeback home with them. They insisted that he go to church and attend other Christianevents and services with them. Upon reflection, he noted that when spiritual guidanceand/or intervention was needed, it came. His father upset him greatly upon suggestingthat he might not be saved. He told me that great men and women of the Bible havesinned, but that they didnt continue to live in sin as I had. (ibid 4-5) He was reminded of how, when David was confronted with the sins he had committedwith Bathsheba, he repented. Johnny opened his Bible to Psal. 51 and found that abroken spirit is what God wanted. He took from that he would have to give upeverything he had previously had built his life upon, the homosexual...
