Remember, There was a time when conservatives had no problem wearing masks.

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Spartan2470 on January 11st, 2022 at 13:49 UTC »

Here is the full uncropped and higher quality version of this image. This was in the July 1983 Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority Report. The source is the Jerry Falwell Library, Liberty University.

The full issue can be found here.

Per here:

Falwell condemned homosexuality as forbidden by the Bible. Gay rights groups called Falwell an "agent of intolerance" and "the founder of the anti-gay industry" for statements he had made and for campaigning against LGBT social movements. Falwell supported Anita Bryant's 1977 "Save Our Children" campaign to overturn a Florida ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and a similar movement in California. In urging the repeal of the ordinance, Falwell told one crowd, "Gay folks would just as soon kill you as look at you."When the LGBT-friendly Metropolitan Community Church was almost accepted into the World Council of Churches, Falwell called them "brute beasts" and stated that they are, "part of a vile and satanic system" that "will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven." He later denied saying this. Falwell also regularly linked the AIDS pandemic to LGBT issues and stated, "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals, it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

Edit: Added wikipedia link/info.

MrCanoe on January 11st, 2022 at 14:58 UTC »

My uncle actually died of AIDS in the late '80s. a close friend of mine's mother refused to let me play with him because she was afraid I was going to bite her son and give him AIDS somehow since my uncle had AIDS.

Fat613 on January 11st, 2022 at 15:26 UTC »

Growing up in the 80s and unfortunately this was plastered everywhere. We even had posters in school not to share utensils or drinks with other students during the height of the HIV AIDS scare. Crazy times and Saint Reagan was leader so you know we were safe /s