‘Dangerous Direction on AIDS’: Gann-Dannemeyer Initiative
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It seems so ironic that we should look to Washington, D.C., for leadership only to find the Reagan Administration unwilling to meet its responsibilities with reference to people with AIDS.
At the very moment when our county Board of Supervisors has authorized its legal counsel to draft local anti-discrimination ordinances to protect people with AIDS, the White House remains unreasonably and irresponsibly silent (Part I, Aug. 3).
Those of us who serve on the Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS are keenly aware of the amount of harm that can be inflicted when prejudice, ignorance and fear motivate individuals and neighborhoods to inflict harm on people with AIDS. Such negativism simply cannot exist anywhere in our community nor any place in this nation.
I believe that President Reagan should be condemned for this lack of insight and leadership. It is my fervent hope that his successor in the White House will correct this grievous wrong.
RABBI ALLEN FREEHLING
Chairman
L.A. County Commission on AIDS
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