From here:

“Today I will start with a three-part sermon on: Jesus was HIV-positive,” South African Pastor Xola Skosana recently said in a Sunday church service.

The words initially stunned his congregation in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township into silence, and then set tongues wagging in churches across the country.

Some Christians have been outraged, saying he is portraying Jesus as sexually promiscuous.

HIV is mainly transmitted through sex, but can also be spread through needle-sharing, contaminated blood, pregnancy and breastfeeding.

However, as Pastor Skosana told those gathered in the modest Luhlaza High School hall for his weekly services, in many parts of the Bible Jesus put himself in the position of the destitute, the sick and the marginalised.

It hardly needs to be said that the premise of this sermon is idiotic. Jesus had compassion for “the destitute, the sick and the marginalised”, but he wasn’t sick, destitute or marginalised himself: he didn’t become a leper, he healed lepers. And, had HIV been in existence, he would have healed those who contracted it – even if they had contracted it using the preferred method.