On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer took a call from a doctor in Tyler, Texas, who suggested that AIDS victims ought to sue gay rights groups for not warning them about the health risks associated with homosexuality.
The caller said that, as a doctor, he is constantly warning his patients that there are health consequences for people who engage in behaviors such as drinking or smoking, just as “there are consequences for homosexual behavior.”
Saying that criticism of Indiana’s “religious freedom” law is no different than a group of smokers threatening to kill him and burn down his doctor’s office for warning about the dangers of smoking, the caller predicted that “one of these days, some smart group of lawyers is going to get a couple of guys with AIDS and they’re going to sue the people that are promulgating the lie that a behavior, a choice, is good because all it does is it increases their risk to disease, illness, and suffering.”
Fischer, not surprisingly, was in complete agreement, saying that just as any doctor who told his patients that there was nothing wrong with drinking or smoking would be sued for medical malpractice, so too should gay rights groups be sued by “some homosexual who is dying of HIV/AIDS … for shortening his life with bad medical advice”:
