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Originally Posted by martyh

Yes it can mean exactly that if you are a Catholic .You have to include other doctrines of Catholicism to understand why he believes it .The Catholic church believes in heterosexual partnerships for life and no sex before marriage so promiscuity, particularly amongst the gay community was blamed for the spread of aids ,if they had stuck to a traditional form of partnership i.e one partner and no promiscuity as taught by the church then diseases like aids would not have spread the way it did .

Perhaps then it's time for a most delusional and deliberately offensive person of the year award. I'm sorry. There's no excuse for the type of things O'Brien says and the way in which he says them. I think he's a bigot and an obnoxious prat, and Stonewall are right in singling him out.