spitting in the face of “god”

timothy ray brown,
whose bone marrow transplant was initially meant to ward off the
leukemia that would not stop
attacking his body---
also had AIDS.

he had AIDS.

in the medical world,
brown is referred to as
“the berlin patient”
(a reference to his having lived in germany after having
bone marrow STEM CELLS
transplanted to him
from an individual who has the rare
immunity to the HIV virus).

after having this procedure, he was monitored for
2 years---
and now has been said by his doctors to be cured completely of both
leukemia
&
AIDS.

and though doctors are not yet sure,
just what fundamental component in the
treatment
actually cured him---
to not jump in the air when you hear this information,
is
simply
absurd.

clinical trials are supposed to begin in the coming year
& this can only mean one thing for the people on this earth
afflicted with this horrible disease.

we are closer to its end than we were to its beginning.

for brown,
one can only imagine what he must be going through---
the emotions that must be wielding in his strong heart
that has endured so very much as he walked amongst us
presumably healthy individuals
with both
leukemia & AIDS.

watching him speak,
there is a glimmer in his eyes---
one that
nobody else yet on this planet can understand.

our own human minds brought about this
“miracle”---
it was not sent by “god”---
and for those that remember the sweet little nothings uttered by the likes of hate-mongers
such as…

Jerry Falwell: “AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”

let us spit in its face.

Mother Teresa: "It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct"

let us spit in its face.

Michael Savage: "Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."

let us spit in its face.

Pat Robertson: "Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."

let us spit in its face.

American Family Association of Kentucky's Dr. Frank Simon: "There are hundreds of children in America who are dying of AIDS because they were sexually abused by homosexuals."

let us spit in its face.

Rick Santorum: "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual Gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything!"
let us spit in its face.

Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Virginia: "Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!"

had enough?

spit in the face of the reason
which hate-mongers everywhere
have used as their excuse to
torment
individuals
because of the fictions they adhere to
& realize that in this first step towards
eliminating this terror that has plagued our species for far too long,
we take yet another step
towards the end of this torment & the end of the reason for this torment.

this day
is a most
beautiful day
for timothy ray brown
and for humans
everywhere.