June/July 2000

The 13th international AIDS Conference, Durban. UNO population control and the war on the God-ordained Family.

Dear Friends,

From 9 to 14 July the 13th International AIDS Conference took place in Durban. Its theme was, "Breaking the Silence. Nearly 13 000 doctors, scientists, health workers and AIDS activists had come from all over the world, and more than 5000 reports were presented. It was the first AIDS Conference held in the Third World. In South Africa 4,2 million people are said to be I?HV?infected. In Africa 2 million people per year are said to die of AIDS. In the world, according to the UN agency UN aids, 34.3 million people suffer from it. Worldwide, 18.8 million people are said to have died of it. It is a grim reality. Its devastation is compared to the Black Death in Europe. However, the AIDS Conference started off with a colourful entertainment extravaganza. It offered among its attractions a loveLifie 'love train', onto which one could write messages of hope and love. People were invited to 'Join the rave ? music, entertainment, celebrities and more". Indeed, 'Love' seems to have flourished. Even the Durban prostitutes said that business had never been so good (ref. Felicia on E).

For a week the Conference grappled with every aspect of AIDS ? medical, economic, political etc. Experts disputed as to what, in fact, causes AIDS. One group, consisting of the majority of scientists, claims that HIV causes AIDS, while another, consisting of a minority but including South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, claims that HIV might not cause AIDS. President Mbeki rather believes that poverty is to blame. The Durban talks ranged from AIDS statistics to AIDS researches and AIDS drug developments. In the end, failing the imminent hope of a cure, the answer to AIDS was said to be a greater distribution of condoms (for prevention), more money (for buying available drugs), and increased propaganda (for educating the young). Even a former Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, joined the plea for condoms.

What the Conference did not sufficiently stress is, that in most cases AIDS is the result of immoral living. Though it advocated a change of lifestyle for people "engaging in high risk behaviour" they did not call for abstinence as a means of containing the disease. Had it not been for letters written by Christians to the newspapers or a Catholic bishop exhorting to marital fidelity, the spiritual roots of AIDS might not have been exposed. For in general, AIDS is the result of apostasy, of denying God and disobeying His commandments. AIDS is God's judgement for disturbing His order. For God instituted marriage as the basic institution of social order and gave commandments to protect this order, such as "Honour your parents," "Do not murder," "Do not commit adultery," "Do not steal," "Do not lie," "Do not covet." Marriage and family are the foundations of social life. They are meant to be covenants of love and trust. They are the image of a greater covenant, namely the covenant between God and man. To disturb this covenant with unchastity, unfaithfulness, and perversion, is anathema to God. Consequently, to advocate the mass distribution of condoms is to promote defiance of Gods commandments. It is a call to sin. It is an invitation to death. In telling youngsters to 'love life " and be "sexy, savvy and sensitive, 2) while installing condom dispensers in their schools 3) is "to send them down to the chambers of death." (Prov. 7:25?27)

Fight against AIDS?
In many countries people are complaining that the authorities do not fight AIDS, but that they use false arguments, such as: condoms protect; infidelity is all right; everyone can do as he pleases. The Eidgenössisch?demokratische Union (EDU) of Switzerland, for instance, accuses the Swiss Government of a "dubious way of thinking". Government representatives, says the paper EDU Standpunkt, "mock Bible passages or make them appear to say something entirely different... " ? Under the heading, "Protect your neighbour as yourself " the EDU condemns the Swiss anti?AIDS campaign as follows: "There can be no question ofreal help being given by the Department ofHealth. Real help would mean addressing people in concrete terms and effecting a correction in attitude patterns, so that this death?bringing disease can be stopped. The same sentiments are voiced by people all around the world.

As there seems to be no real endeavour to fight AIDS effectively one may well ask: Do the world authorities want to fight AIDS? A letter to the Editor of Die Burger of 13.7.2000 stated: '7here are people who wonder deep down in their hearts whether AIDS is not the solution to overpopulation and to possible political imbalances. " In October 1999, when the same question was raised at an official briefing of the European Parliament, Jan Fransen, a former high official of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) answered jokingly, Yes, AIDS was helping to do the work of population control in Africa. Increased mortality in Africa was one of three ways of keeping the population from growing. AIDS, he said, had reduced life expectancy in some African nations from 61 to 47 years of age. Fransen seemed to see something positive in this, because the earth, he claims, can sustain no more than 700 million to 1 billion people. 4) Its present population, UNI7PA, claims, is 6 Billion. But this figure is regarded as vastly exaggerated by some leading demographer,,.

The United Nations and Population Control
Helene Bos of Almere, Netherlands, who calls Christians to join in prayer for global issues, has made a study of UN Conferences. She concludes that a "new type of UN0 World conferences" was held during the Nineties, among them "the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, '92, one on Human Rights in '93 in Vienna, one on Population and Development in Cairo. Then one on Social Development, Stockholm '95, the notorious one on Women, Beijing '95, and Habitat 11 in Istanbul '96. " Each of these conferences, she says, "was highlighting one aspect of the comprehensive goal of the UN.? 'to create a better world for all'.. Also the conference on food (Rome '96), on the climate (Kyoto '98) and on the international criminal court (ICC, Rome '98) received quite some attention and media?covering. " Mrs Bos found that, whatever the given topic, the same agenda was underlying all the conferences, namely population control and world government. The action programmes resulting from them, she says, are written in "UY language ", to disguise the real motives behind them. For instance, codenames for population reduction are: sustainability (the number of people the earth can carry); women's rights, empowerment of women (anti?marriage and anti?family orientation); reproductive health and reproductive rights, (birth control and abortion). In its conferences the UN makes use of Non?Governmental Organisations (NGOs), which supposedly consist of 'grass?roots' people, but are expected to go back and pressurize their governments into implementing UN programmes.

"The always recurring theme in every world?conference, " says Mrs Bos, "has been the issue of population control. Feminists, eco?utopists, and population controllers, always supported each other's viewpoint with regard to the issue of abortion on demand. Every year 50 million babies die through abortion. Though many nations already have a negative population growth, due to the fact that they are under replacement level, yet the UNFPA wants to increase the number of abortions with 50Yo in the coming years. The United Nations Population Fund (UVFPA) fears 'that the earth will not be able to endure more than one billion inhabitants!!" 5) The Third World nations are put under pressure. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) make 'population control' a condition for development aid. MrsBos writes: "The requirement for national governments to provide abortion facilities in order to receive development money, in order to receive financial aid through the IMF, in order to receive loans from the World Bank, means that the spiritual battle is behind all the global institutions. Also behind the G?8, who support the policies of the UN with regard to this issue. " 6)

Opposing UNFPA's claim that on October 12, 1999, 6 billion humans were overpopulating the earth, the French demographer Pierre Chaumt states: "This data is false. We are faced with a genuine manipulation... For the past 35 to 40 years we have witnessed an incredible deceleration of fertility rates.. All the African figures are inflated.. Africa has one hundred million less people than the official figures. In Europe at present there isn't a single counoy in which the population has a positive balance in its demographic growth. Even Latin America, with Brazil at the top of the list, has stopped growing.. In North Africa, in the Magreb, the population is decreasing.. Today there is talk of... a step from demographic explosion to implosion... " 7) ? We all know how eagerly the UN has pursued population control programmes. Some nations took up the challenge in an inhuman way. The one?child per family programme in communist China must have wiped out millions of families. In the West, countless families are wiped out through homosexuality. In Africa many families are brought down by AIDS. ? Indeed, the present world population decline is such that there are wide?spread fears that, if it continues, today's level of industrialisation and the high standard of living cannot be maintained.

War on the Family
Under the banner of population development and 'anti?AIDS campaigning' a war is raging against the family, and through the family against the nation state. Everything points toward 'World government. Strong families and nations are an obstacle to this aim, because they represent God?given independent spheres of government which do not easily give up their authority. For instance, the family is a school, providing teaching and preparation for life. The family is a church, upholding worship through family prayers and Bible reading. The family is a state, promoting discipline, correction, rewards and punishment. The family is a workplace, teaching duties, employing talents, exercising responsibility, management, economics and development. The family therefore contains all the functions of a mini?state. If families are sound, society is sound, if society is sound the country, the nation is sound. A nation is exalted by its godly families.

The great spiritual significance of marriage and family life is summed up by the Book of Common Prayer. "Holy matrimony, " it says, "is an honourable estate instituted of God in the time of man's innocency, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church... It is not by any to be... taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts, that have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God, duly considering the causes for which matrimony was ordained First, it was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name. Secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication; that such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry, and keep themselves undefiled members of Christ's body. Thirdly, it was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity. "

The International Conference on AIDS seemingly took no notice of this divine order, and yet, the only protection against a deadly disease is to observe it. AIDS is a sad personal tragedy for many people, but it need not affect those who are still healthy. South Africans must therefore stand together and remind one another that Gods way is the only way. They must fight porn and promiscuity and tell all men and women to choose Life! (Deuteronomy 30

May God bless you richly,
D. Scarborough.

Footnotes:
I. Argus 15/16.9.2000
2. Sunday Times youth supplement 11SIcamto", July 9, 20oo. loveLife Campaign.
3. Maitland Skool kry kondoommasjiene in toilette, Die Burger, 29.6.2000
4. Racist Humor? Population Research Institute Review, October?December 1999. ? See also UNFPA briefing makes light of high mortality in Africa. Catholic
Family and Human Rights Institute, October 15.1999.
5. Pieter and Helene Bos, Global Issues Call to Prayer. Internet: phb@servingthenations.org; www.servingthenations.org
6. Ibid.
7. Interview with Prof Pierre Chaunu, Zenit, Paris, 6.10.99