We believed early on that HIV, the virus which indicates the presence of AIDS antibodies in humans ... was God's way of killing homosexuals.
We knew it because the fundy christian right said so. And ... well ... they have God's email address, so ... you know ... there ya go.
But now what are we to think?
It turns out that a few
other people were actually correct all along. I had a friend a couple of cities over from me; a total white-trash beer guzzler, but I love him. He used to say, "Ah'll betch-ye AIDS came from some dude doin' it with a monkey!" Perhaps you have one such friend.
Now we know this crazy old fool was correct. Well, sort of.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
AIDS did, indeed, originate from chimpanzees and passed onto humans. Not via sex with chimps, but rather something as benign as butchering one for a Bonzo Bisque.
Now what are we to think? Does God so hate chimpanzees that he created the scourge of the 20th century to kill them all off, and they fooled God with their little chimpy antics by developing an immunity and giving it to some father of 17 in the Congo?
Does God regret making chimps because they have been the icon of evolution since Darwin first sketched his Reises-to-Sapiens model, to the point that he just tried to wipe them out?
Ok ... so the fish people (aka fundy christians) were wrong. God didn't invent AIDS to kill off all of us homosexuals after all. There was something fishy with that theory to begin with anyway, because everyone knows there are no gays in the Congo. Only straight men who have a law allowing them to rape their sisters-in-law after their husbands die.
What are we to do?! This throws us back years! It's almost like we're ............. devolving.