Ed Vitagliano
AFA Journal news editor
April 2008 – The head of a major homosexual group admitted for the first time that HIV/AIDS is “a gay disease,” but added that he believed victory for the full range of the homosexual agenda was inevitable.
Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF, www.thetaskforce.org), the nation’s oldest gay rights group, made the statements at the organization’s national conference in February.
Foreman’s controversial statement about AIDS surprised even many of the conference attendees. He told them, “Folks, with 70% of the people in this country living with HIV being gay or bi(sexual), we cannot deny that HIV is a gay disease. We have to own that and face up to that.”
That simple admission sparked a flurry of commentary from pro-family groups like AFA and Focus on the Family. For example, Gary Glenn, president of AFA of Michigan, said in a press release: “Despite medical data identifying homosexual activity among males as by far the largest single source of HIV infection in the U.S., homosexual activists have routinely condemned conservative and public health organizations for characterizing the disease as being predominantly associated with and spread by homosexual behavior.”
Glenn added that “Foreman should also publicly accept responsibility for professionally promoting a lifestyle that’s medically associated with a dramatically higher risk of domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse, eating disorders, life-threatening diseases such as AIDS, cancer, and hepatitis, and premature death by up to 20 years.”
Homosexual activist Sean Kosofsky, director of policy for the Triangle Foundation, a gay lobby group that frequently tangles with Glenn, struck back at the AFA chapter president. “Gary Glenn is certainly no Christian and has no compassion for his fellow man and should be ashamed of himself for using these comments to further marginalize gay people,” Kosofsky said. “Leave it to Gary to manipulate and distract people with this kind of ugly bigotry.”
Other homosexual activists, however, seemed to agree with Foreman’s initial statement at the conference. For example, Sean Strub, founder of POZ magazine, which targets those who are living with HIV, said, “What Matt [Foreman] meant was we as a gay community have to take more responsibility for the epidemic. Too much of the [gay] community has relegated the epidemic as some other community’s concern.”
In a follow-up interview, however, Foreman implied that gay men are not responsible for getting AIDS. “I don’t blame our community for the fact that MSM [men who have sex with men] still account for nearly three quarters of men living with HIV,” Foreman said. “I hold our government accountable” for failing to deal effectively with the AIDS crisis.
Success of gay movement ‘inevitable’
In his NGLTF speech Foreman left no doubt that he believes that ultimate success for the homosexual movement is a done deal. “I know – now more than ever – winning complete equality isn’t only possible, it’s inevitable and you’re going to make that happen,” he said.
Foreman boasted about the continued success of gay activism. Pointing to one example, he said more and more cities and states were passing laws adding sexual orientation to nondiscrimination statutes. “Look at our progress in the percentage of the U.S. population covered by a law that protects people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation – 0% in 1970, 4% in 1980, 12% in 1990, 28% in 2000 and today 52% – over half the U.S. population now has these protections,” he said.
The success of wealthy, gay rights activists like Jon Stryker and Tim Gill, who have successfully targeted for removal candidates who refuse to accept the gay agenda (See AFA Journal, 5/07.), was a highlight of Foreman’s speech. These activists, he said, have “helped fund campaigns to take out bigots and elect pro-LGBT candidates. All of this was done over the well-funded, homophobic attack machine of America’s anti-gay industry.”
The entire litany of gay demands was aired out during the speech, from legalizing same-sex marriage to allowing homosexuals to serve in the military. But that came as no surprise to AFA Chairman Don Wildmon.
“AFA remains committed to the fight against the homosexual agenda precisely because we have seen, for the last 30 years or more, the determination of this community to radically alter our culture,” he said.
He encouraged AFA supporters to pay particular attention to AFA Journal stories, AFA Action Alerts and articles on OneNewsNow.com, in order to stay informed and participate in combating this movement.
“Matt Foreman thinks the success of the gay agenda is inevitable,” Wildmon said. “And it will be if Christian people sit back and do nothing.” 
