>Robert Anson Wilson, in the Autumn 1998 issue of The Realist, (p. 3)
>reports the following:
>
>"A sincere group of God-fearing Amnericans, Christians Awake, has proposed
>one of the most original AIDS conspiracy theories; it is all the fault of
>the Freemasons.
>
>"According to Christians Awake, the Masons have run the country from the
>beginning, and they are a secret society because they are all gay. Even
>George Washington was gay, and the Washington Monument is a phallic
>symbol. After almost 2000 years of this gay Freemasonic government, God
>waxed most irate and created AIDS to punish the culprits.
>
>"Ronald Reagan, according to this group, is another Freemason and share
>guilt not only for AIDS but for placing Jewish communists in government.
>And he secretly supported abortion too."