Authors: Richard Reinsch
Publish Date: 2008/05/21
Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 389-391
Abstract
In the initial pages of Heroic Conservatism we are met with the uncompromising force of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS on the African continent and an example of “Compassionate Conservatism” that is virtually impossible to find disagreeable Our particular encounter occurs outside of Kampala Uganda at a camp called Meeting Point International funded in part by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Gerson relates that upon his approach to the camp “A group of female dancers in native skirts and bright orange tops and a band of young male drummers in pink shorts and yellow shirts did a raucous performance The performance was loud slightly suggestive and somehow holy an act of defiance against death and fear and despair It felt like angels bringing happy rowdy music to the gates of hell—and the gates of hell will not prevail against it”
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