STUDENTS AND MISSIONS TENTH QUADRENNIAL STUDENT VOLUNTEER CONVENTION

It is my profound belief that churches must get out of the way and encourage sexually explicit instruction that takes seriously peoples’ needs for intimacy. . . . I would also say that the churches and synagogues, after cleaning up their own house — and maybe in the process of cleaning up their own house — are in fact a resource for educating people in this society [about AIDS]; and should not be written off; and should be in fact at the educational task which — as the word “rabbi” would tell you — is basically the task of the church. ^{1 1}Rev. Joan Campbell, Executive Director, U.S. Office of the World Council of Churches — Address to III International Conference on AIDS, Washington, DC, June 4, 1987.