You wouldn’t know it from the religious-right media but today is National HIV Testing Day. News sites which ignore this include:
FreeRepublic
Townhall
Family News In Focus
WorldNetDailyAnd don’t count on the Agapepress to include it when they publish this afternoon.
MSNBC has a great article about the editor of POZ, a heterosexual woman who contracted HIV through serial monogamy. If XGW readers find more religious-right news sites ignoring National HIV Testing Day, feel free to mention it in a comment and I’ll update my list.
To quote Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
“And you’re what? Shocked and disapointed? I’m evil.”
Kay Warren (wife of purpose driven Rick Warren) did write an opinion piece on 6/23 for the Baptist Standard which was a call for compassion. She didn’t mention that today is national HIV testing day.
http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=5068
Her examples of those needing compassion both consisted of heterosexuals but that may have more to do with knowing your audience than with callousness.
Disappointingly, I saw no other religious publication that mentioned national HIV testing day other than The Christian Post:
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20060627/19487.htm