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 When I was eleven I was introduced to my first Chick tract, "This Was Your Life." Chick tracts are little comic books, designed to help win souls for Christ. They are so incendiary and hateful that most Christian bookstores won't carry them.
 In "This Was Your Life" a young playboy dies and is carried by an angel to the judgement seat of Christ which resembles a VERY big drive-in movie theater. There his entire life is shown on the big screen for all to see. By the end of the screening our naked friend is on his knees reduced to tears. In the final scene he's unceremoniously tossed into the Lake of Fire.
Most Chick tracts contain erotic scenes of one type or another. In "A Demon's Nightmare" two devils try to distract a convert by parading a blonde woman in a very tight dress past him. But the original bar scene from "The Beast" has to be Chick's most infamous work. It was cut from later editions. In a dark bar two men are kissing in a corner, everyone is drunk, the waitresses are topless, men are fighting, lovers are necking, and sin runs rampant in this strangely inviting place. It was my first exposure to homosexuality and it's ironic that I must thank Jack Chick for opening my eyes to this possibility.
 Jack Chick never gives up picking on queers. In "Wounded Children" little David succumbs to the twin temptations of Daddy's porn and playing with dolls. Though he tries, he can't date girls. A few pages later Jack Chick draws in vivid detail three men bashing to death a gay man with a baseball bat. Jack Chick shows David blaming himself for being a coward and not coming to his friend's aid.
 In "Doom Town, The Story of Sodom" Jack Chick depicts a Gay Rights rally where activists call for gay men to poison the nation's blood supply with HIV+ blood. A footnote, "AIDS Video by Jeremiah Films," lends credibility to his claim. Jeremiah Films is producing a video for Jack Chick which should be released sometime this year.
AIDS: What You
Haven't Been Told
Jeremiah Films
P.O. Box 1710
Hemet, CA 92546
While recounting his highly fictitious account of Sodom Chick depicts a sweaty, disgusting, gorilla-esque man saying to a frightened young child, "It's that time again!" He makes no effort to distinguish queers from child molesters.
Jack Chick's logic and artwork are so over-the-top that his tracts are now a big hit with the gen-ex, cocktail nation, recreational Christian set. Yet it's hard to appreciate the humor amidst the virulent anti-queer hatred. Whatever your take on Jack T. Chick, when you're ready for an antidote try Adult Christianity's CHIC tracts.
Remember, God loves queers, both practicing and accomplished!
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