"In a Rage Over AIDS"

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"In a Rage Over AIDS"

Time (12/25/89) Vol. 134, No. 26, P. 33
Magnuson, Ed

Abstract: A recent demonstration at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City in which police arrested 43 demonstrators is the latest and ugliest in an escalating series of skirmishes between the Roman Catholic Church and AIDS activists. Cardinal John O'Connor, as an outspoken opponent of using condoms to prevent the spread is HIV, is a prime target forgroups such as the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), which was largely responsible for the New York demonstration. AtSt. Patrick's, activists shouted down O'Connor during a service and one demonstrator took a communion wafer and threw it to the ground. O'Connor's angry response to protest is ironic to some people, given his support of the obstructionist techniques of anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue. ACT UP and other groups target the Church for shock actions, says ACT UP spokesmanJay Blotcher, "because no other religion so energetically tries to influence public policy." Although ACT UP persists in its attention-grabbing tactics, some members admit the St. Patrick's demonstration went too far.

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