NC: 'Ex-gay' play producers claim AIDS cured with prayer
by: Pam Spaulding
Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 07:00:00 AM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=32E71B6870546C47DF6D4E0F60A655E7?diaryId=6948How irresponsible is this, given the rates of HIV/AIDS in the black community?! Matt Comer of QNotes reports about a play slated to come to Winston-Salem State University that is full of stereotypes and does nothing to educate, but provides plenty of misinformation.
A play featuring anti-gay and "ex-gay" religious themes will be showcased at Winston-Salem State University by a traveling, Atlanta, Ga.-based Christian production company headed by an African-American minister and his wife. The duo claims a person can be healed of HIV/AIDS through prayer and say an associate pastor with their company has done just that.
Winston-Salem State is a historically black university. The high rate of HIV infections among African-American women and men who have sex with men make these messages particularly controversial.
