It's probably worth pointing out that people dealing with HIV who are in Christian worlds are often heaped with judgment. Nothing worse than having AIDS and being a part of a Christian community. It's really tough!

I'm not referring to the small minority of Christians who are progressive or are reconstructing their faith. I'm talking about traditionalist Christianity. Back at the height of the AIDS epidemic when I was protesting government inaction in the streets, Christian churches were are fiercest enemies. They fought their asses off to stop safer-sex education, to insist on teaching abstinence, to morally judge gay people for being sexually active. I already knew that traditionalist Christianity was an evil religion, because of the hell I went through raised in Baptist churches as a gay teen. But the AIDS crisis really drove it home for me. I learned so clearly and directly how evil Christianity is.