amanda, bakery malcontent (alpine_thistle@fandom.ink)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 17:00:08 UTC

It's so telling that a lot of saint-honoring Christians (yes, this is @ my beloved Episcopalians as well as the Romans) would rather consider noted colonizer Damien of Molokai the "patron saint of AIDS patients" and not someone who actually had, or ministered to, people with AIDS

Yeah! There's a lot of parallels between people who had leprosy in the past and people who had/have AIDS in the present. But we need to not be squeamish about this