We who believe in God's Word have through the years repeatedly warned about these sins, only to find ourselves mocked and ignored. The New Morality advocates told us such lifestyles were normal and that people would be happier exercising their freedom from God and the "outdated" book called the Bible. We warned, they scoffed.

Now society is reaping the products of the New Morality, a moral nightmare with tragic consequences. One would think that this would wake people up. Instead the same people who constantly urge us to be concerned about the AIDS crisis go on "giving hearty approval" to the very sins causing the problem (Romans 1:32).

In the symbolic book of Revelation, chapter 16 pictures angels pouring out "bowls of wrath" upon the earth and yet the people "blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues; and THEY DID NOT REPENT, so as to give Him glory." In like fashion, the many fornicators, homosexuals and drug abusers who have contracted the hideous disease called AIDS, seem far more interested in blaspheming God and criticizing His Word, than to admit the error of their actions. It is hypocritical for people to cry for help while wanting to persist in sinful conduct that largely created the AIDS crisis.

Some will, of course, point out: What about the other victims--babies of infected mothers, blood transfusions, mates of unfaithful spouses, etc.? Our hearts go out to such, but here is another tragedy of sin -- it can affect the innocent. Like a drunken driver who runs over a child, the AIDS epidemic spread by ungodly lifestyles has claimed it's share of innocent victims. The infection of the innocent does not make us feel better about infectors who refuse to control their conduct.

When Bible believers speak out against immoral lifestyles, they often have quoted back to them Jesus' words, "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." But just remember that after He exhibited His divine compassion to this woman caught in adultery, Jesus also went on to tell her "go thy way and sin no more." Many would like compassion, but I wonder how many are willing to be told "sin no more"?   --- Pat Jones