The Sun's editorial "Preventing AIDS" (March 31) was on the mark, too late and completely hypocritical. The editorial is on the mark because the prevalence of AIDS and the number of new AIDS cases in Baltimore are both tragic and preventable. The editorial is too late because for decades the residents of the city have lagged behind their counterparts elsewhere in preventing the transmission of the disease. The editorial is completely hypocritical because The Sun has gone out of its way to give a free pass to Sen. Barack Obama and his hate-mongering pastor who, among other things, preached to his congregation that AIDS was used by the U.S. government as a means to wage biological war against its own citizens ("Obama and his pastor," editorial, March 19). It's exactly this type of misinformation that leads folks to feel powerless in confronting this disease, and both The Sun and Mr. Obama would have served this nation well if they had rebuked this nonsense early and often.