■ 56*0 ff!
ANY MEIVU ITEM
' *TC8V” J
I The C\mntry\ Best ibgurl. I
I (Item mos t* over $' t*ot good utn I
odw oiler* Oiler et(#m 4I3QS3) ^
| -3131 W. 11th, Market Place We*t |
^1888 Franklin Bled. (FrankJm I V»arf^
136 E 11th • (near Willamette)
342-3358
Must be 21 or Over
Wednesday m«h « $3
International Anthem
Yantra
Thursday Arm i $3
I hf Super Show of the Onlur)!"
Super Kpants
The Superkools
The Super Big I Am
Friday a,^.i 2 $5
Subpop Recording Artists
Codeine
plus
The Spinanes
Lois
Music Starts at 10pm
Mon Sat
Muse starts at 8pm Sundays
OUCKBUCm
Look tor them April 4th
Christians face difficult AIDS questions
i: d i r o n s
SOTF Will min
Thackeray w rote
thnl dying far a
faith isn't so hard — it is living
up to it that's difficult This lust
of a three jxirt senes. "AIDS — A
Test of Faith. " look s at the sfie
rial dilemmas of the faithful in
the Age of AIDS
(APJ — 11 le rule is love the sin
ner, hate the sin But if the sin
ner has AIDS — and the sin is
hnmosexualty or sex outside of
marriage — can compassion lie
reconciled with religious doc
trine?
If you believe Cod condemns
homosexual behavior, how do
you spread that moral teaching
without ( listing aspersions on
people who contracted AIDS
through gay sex? Are more lives
saved by providing information
about condom use. or by pro
moting abstinence'
For some, the answers arc
clear AIDS activists disrupt
Masses and destroy sacred hosts
as they demand religious groups
give unqualified aci eptance of
homosexuality Fundamentalist
prem hers fill the airwaves with
the message that AIDS is Cod's
punishment to homosexuals and
drug users
Amid these extremes, the faith
ful seek solutions that are both
i ompassionate and true to their
beliefs
’'This is a response of God's
|H>ople to people (icing sick That,
to me, has always been the bot
tom line.'' says Konald II Sun
derland of the Foundation for
Interfaith Research and Ministry
hi Houston 'If you force (other)
issues together, you’re going to
confront over and over again
problems we don't need to face,
and the people who are going to
suffer are people w ith AIDS
Sometimes, the gnp between
principle and practice can seem
almost humorous.
Praise came from all over
Houston when the Christian
Tabematile Church established a
residence for homeless people
with AIDS — with one exception
Other United Pentecostal min
isters wanted to know if it was
true church members were look
ing the other wav on the church’s
holiness code hy taking people
with AIDS to the movies
' ll didn't matter that w-e min
istered to them, that we held their
hands when they died. It was.
'You take them to the movies.’
God have mercy." laughs the Rev
Ray Highfield
But when the issue is condoms,
there is no laughter Judy Hunter,
who was a consultant for the
Catholit AIDS education cur
riculum, discusses condoms and
homosexuality when she gives
AIDS education seminars in dio
ceses around the country Iwcause
"these are the facts about HIV
AIDS ”
But she tear hex that "there is
no such thing ns safe sex" and
draws on her exjierience lending
a support group where one
spouse infer ted another despite
the precaution of careful condom
use
Debra Fraser-Howxm of the
Blnri. I readership Commission on
AIDS approaches black churr li
es with what she calls her "how -
ever theory,”
"Abstinence is the only sure
way not to gel AIDS We need to
start every sentence with that
her ause that's honest.” Fraser
Howse says.
But it is also true that condoms
provide some protection, she
savs So she offers pastors mi
alternative
"Maybe you i nn’t get up and
‘Loving people is
much more
important than
judging them;
much more
important
- Rev. Molly McGreevy
say it. but their's no law you can't
let me in the basement and have
me say it," she says.
Compromises that an- possible
on c ondom use seem more elu
sive when the issue is homosex
uality.
Presbvteriun ACT-UP is plan
ning acts of civil disobedience to
i hallenge the Presbvtorian
Church (IJ.S A )'s stand on homo
sexuality at its unniial meeting in
Orlando in |une. sa\s the Rev.
Howard Warren, the group's co
moderator
"We must not de-ga\ the dis
ease." he says.
The Rev. Ken South, executive
director of the AIDS National
Interfaith Network in Washing
ton. agrees homosexuality and
AIDS cannot lie separated.
"AIDS is about healing How
in the world cam you help some
one heal when you don’t even
start by acknowledging the core
of who they are'” he asks
Hut others sa\ it is wrong to ask
that Christian and Jewish groups
give up bihiii ally based beliefs
that homosexuality is a sin just
Ihh ause homosexuals are afflict
ed
"Are homosexuals to be
excluded from the community of
faith? Certainly not. But anyone
who joins sm h a community
should know that it is a place of
transformation and not men'
lv a place to be comforted or
indulged." wrote Gary, a homo
sexual Christian who diod of
AIDS, in his final letter to Duke
Divinity School Professor Richard
Hays.
Karl Shelp helps run a suc
cessful interfaith AIDS program
in Houston, in which Southern
Baptist, Catholic and Pentecostal
churches have been among the
religious groups caring for more
than 1,000 people with AIDS.
"It s exploitive for gay people
to use AIDS to advance their own
agenda." Shelp says. "It doesn't
have to lie swept under the eccle
siastical door on the backs of
people with AIDS.”
The Rev Rodney DeMnrtini.
executive director of the San
Francisco-based National
Catholii AIDS Network, soys he
can understand the frustration of
AIDS activists, but he says they
also need to recognize there is
hurdlv a Catholic Charities
agency in the country that does
not have an AIDS ministry. And
many of the larger dioceses have
full-time AIDS programs.
When St. Luke in the Fields
Kpisc opal Church in New York
lirst began offering a weekly din
ner (or people vs ith AIDS in 1BHH.
"we began with all these nice,
middle-class, gay white men. We
are now 75 percent black or His
panic I'm sure some of them are
gay. but many of them are drug
users,” savs the Rev. Molly
Me Creevy.
"The first thing, and ultimate
ly in the end the most important
tiling, is always that one-on-one
relationship with another human
being." she says. "Loving people,
in the end. is much more impor
tant than judging them, mui ii
more important."
AHa
tffc School
Supply
Save28 % *
• Gamblin Oils-all sizes
• Liquitex Acryllics
tubes & jars
• Grumbacher "Academy
Watercolor Tubes
• 15% off our everyday
discount price
A PARTNER
IN YOUR
LDUCATION
Save 25%
• Winsor & Newton Watercolors
Professional Artist
& Cotman Tubes
19
SAVE 50%
CLOSEOUT!
TAKE OUR DOGS FOR A WALK!
• Grumbachcr Max Oils • Talcns Acrylics
• Pclikan Gouache • Grumbachcr Fabric Paint
ROSES
*9.99,.,
I «*f () ttorr o« IJtt b» hrrciMofl ( bU
I I <>VV! I«k WDI.IITS
rm k»b.rv »•**«. o*. *•«: .«i»i
»- >. i» or r«i. «<iw:
Sunderland
-r^SST* 5tt) STREET A
ev,OEO "SSSST
roAM£S 683-8464
i<
• VIDEO ADVENTURE
^VALLEY RIVER PL A2A *S‘'
Jr ■ iar, *n M.NB •»* « 1
♦V¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥»
Prepare Your Car For
Spring Road Trips!
1917
Franklin Blvd.
^ 485-8226
close to campus