
A new statistic was just uncovered. I knew this was serious when I read it in the news and heard it on National Public Radio within two days. Another at-risk group for AIDS and HIV worldwide are married women. Yes. Among other concerns, husbands (who deserve to be pimp-slapped) are having sexual relations outside their marriages, and bringing the AIDS virus home to their wives. And in spite of all these statistics, someone is becoming a victim of this illness as you read these very words. Nevertheless, we still have some Heads-of-State in Africa who refuse to acknowledge that millions are dying of AIDS in their own countries. We still have promiscuous behavior by people both in and out of the Church. And we still have organizations such as The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice hosting conferences like the 'National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality: Breaking the Silence,” which promotes, among other things, tolerance of homosexuality and sex outside of marriage as a way of showing forth the “love of Christ.” What? These folks are more confused than an Amish housewife in Best Buy if they think that the way for the church to “break the silence” about sexual issues is to go against God’s own Word and sanction activities such as sex in what they term “committed relationships.”