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WILLIAMSPORT-SUN GAZETTE, October 9, 1991
Letters from Sun-Gazette Readers
The Naked Truth
Editor, Sun-Gazette.
Why didn't you print a blowup of the nude male, front view, hanging upside
down? You showed the public the least offensive, most benign photos of
the exhibit. Why not the photos that gave rise to the protest?
If the purpose of the exhibit (as stated on page 13 of the Sept. 12 issue)
was to "document personal relationships and emotional issues associated
with AIDS via the nude male figure," they missed the intention of the
exhibit. I fail to understand what hanging upside down by your heels has
to do with waiting for confirmation of your HIV-positive death sentence.
If I had reason to expect such a diagnosis, I would be on my knees praying
for forgiveness for the wrong committed against my own body (given to me
by God), society (which will ultimately have to bear the emotional and financial
burden of my foolishness) and God (whose good intentions for my body I have
frustrated).
The true beauty of the human being is not found in the display of skin
and organs, but in the attributes of personality and character. Those qualities
may be invisible, but they are nonetheless perceivable, demonstrable and
beautiful.
Those who insist they have the right to continue abusive and immoral
activities without regard for their predictable end, may well be like that
mythological Greek king who ordered the incoming tide to halt its progress.
He drowned.
President Bush is correct in saying the only resolution for the AIDS
epidemic is to be achieved, not by vaccines and money, but by attitude and
behavior changes. I, too, pray for a cure to be found, so that lives may
be spared and reoriented. But given the attitude of so many of the adherents
of those lifestyles, they desire a medical vaccine-salvation so that they
may continue to violate God's natural, spiritual and supernatural laws.
Rev. Robert H. Logan
Montoursville, PN
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