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children as young as seven to
halt the disease’s spread. One
widely publicized recommen
dation was to round up all
homosexuals and shoot them.
Tho California AIDS in
itiative, put on the November
ballot by backers of conser
vative politician Lyndon
LaRouche, sparked fears nation
wide that all carriers of the
AIDS vims could be subject to
quarantine.
The measure, which was
defeated, would have
designated AIDS a contagious
disease, making victims subject
to state quarantine and isolation
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laws. It was opposed by the
medical community and vir
tually every political figure in
the state.
Floyd Beam, chairman of the
Lane County Republican party,
said he knows of no local
groups such as the ones that
organized California's AIDS
initiative.
While the Republican party
has no formal position on the
issue. Beam's personal opinion
is that the issue is not
discrimination against those
with AIDS but personal protec
tion of individuals.
“It’s not discrimination, it's
protection and that's a hell of a
lot more important than
(homosexuals') constitutional
rights." he said.
Because the disease is com
municable. AIDS patients
should be quarantined to pro
tect others, he added.
"If it's communicable, then
why shouldn't we quarantine
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them like we would with any
other communicable disease?
“We’d better get our heads
out of the sand and find a cure
for this disease or make
homosexuality illegal and start
prosecuting for it," Beam said.
A different kind of fear has
arisen within the gay communi
ty and among others in high
risk groups — what will happen
to those with AIDS if
discrimination continues to
escalate, as many fear it will?
"We can do incredibly
strange things when we're
scared as a culture," Storer
said.
About 110.000 (apanese
Americans were interned in
detention camps during World
War II because of fear, he add
ed. "There was absolutely no
basis for interning japanese
Americans 40 years ago other
than strict fear."
Identifying AIDS with a sex
ual persuasion or with a drug
habit skirts the fact that the
disease is spreading among
heterosexuals as well, Seibert
said.
It s not a gay disease. It s a
sexually transmitted virus," he
said.
In fact, while the disease's
spread among heterosexuals
will represent only about 10
percent of all AIDS cases by the
1990s, medical experts make no
guarantees that the disease will
not spread rapidly among
heterosexuals as it is doing
among men and women in parts
of Africa, which has some
10,000 new AIDS cases each
year.
"This disease is going to
challenge virtually
everything," Seibert said, in
cluding state welfare and
medical budgets, counseling
abilities and the parameters of
research and medical treatment.
Ken Brownell. Mid-VAC vice
chairman, said he believes that
by 1990, almost every U.S.
household will be affected in
some way by AIDS as the
disease "spreads like wildfire."
And as the disease spreads, so
will the fear, Brownell said,
particularly among small
private businesses that do not
have specific non
discrimination policies as many
public agencies and large
businesses do.
"It’s the private, independent
individual, the unenlightened
owner, who is scared to death
for his business . . fighting to
keep the business open
anyway...who will cause
discrimination problems."
Brownell said.
One particularly worrisome
example is the restaurant owner
who could feel public pressure
to fire an employee with AIDS
or even one suspected of being
gay. he said.
‘It's not a gay
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ually transmitted
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— Scott Seibert
"1 could see that happening
— there’s just enough rednecks
in this town who would say,
’I’m not going to that
restaurant. There’s a queer
there.' ” Brownell said.
Public health officials have
no evidence that AIDS can be
spread through casual contact
like a handshake or a sneeze,
and Brownell said as the public
becomes more educated about
the disease, there may be less
discrimination and more
acceptance.
But members of the religious
right are equating AIDS with a
latter-day Black Death, a disease
designed to kill off society's
undesirables. Storer believes
AIDS should be treated as what
it is — a deadly disease that is
killing thousands of people, not
a scourge that selectively kills
“deviants."
“AIDS should be viewed as a
medical issue. Unfortunately,
more often it is viewed as a
moral one," Storer said.
looking at AIDS as a cure-all
for eliminating specific groups
of people is simply "crude
thinking," he said.
"That for me is just not how
Cod functions,” he added.
Storer sees two dangerous
myths that surround AIDS and
that may contribute to the
disease's stigma — you have to
be a drug abuser or you have to
be promiscuous to have AIDS.
But “because you have AIDS
doesn't say anything about you
being a whore or a ‘bad ap
ple.' " Storer said. "Sometimes
bad things happen to nice
people.”
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