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From: Rob.Bates@p1.f381.n634.z3.fidonet.org (Rob Bates)
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Date: 28 Oct 89 23:13:06 GMT
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AIDS MESSAGE FROM THE PULPIT

(Reproduced with permission from MELBOURNE STAR OBSERVER #107, Friday 20  
October 1989. All rights resevered. (C) Oz Media Pty Ltd Melbourne Australia.)

Priests, ministers and rabbis will be encouraging their congregations to  
develope an understanding of AIDS transmission and a humane and compassionate  
attitude toward people with AIDS if a recent initiative by the Churches Working  
Group of the Australian National Council on AIDS (ANCA) is successful.

Eight thousand kits are to be sent out to churches, parishes and synagogues  
containing medical information, biblical quotes and sermon outlines in an  
effort to encourage a "humanitarian response" from spiritual leaders.

Conservative church figurs were quick to point out that they would not be using  
any AIDS message as a way of condoning gay lifestyles.

Rob

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