Social conservative Chuck Hurley’s Iowa Family Policy Center has sent out another email to supporters, this time cautioning them that Iowa’s inclusion of same-sex couples in the institution of civil marriage will literally kill people.
After the past grueling months, and the marathon that has been the last three weeks, it’s good for us to be reminded why we are fighting so hard to save traditional marriage. Unfortunately, due to the Supreme Court opinion, the inactivity of the governor, and the complacency of the state legislature, many young people will experiment with the homosexual “life-style.” People will die.
The email goes on to feature a video of an older couple whose son died of an AIDS-related illness, which they say was brought on by his ‘homosexual lifestyle.’ According to the video (posted below the page jump), the couple’s son was too ashamed to tell anyone he had been diagnosed with HIV until he got sick.
Of course, viewing HIV/AIDS as ‘the gay disease’ fell out of fashion sometime around 1985. It afflicts people of all stripes and can be transmitted many different ways. Risky sexual behavior is a common form of transmission, but that affects heterosexuals, too. And marriage, whether between a same-sex couple or an opposite-sex one, typically discourages it.

