[presidio9]

I am trying to finf Michael Fumento's excellent editorial from yesterday's NY Post, which makes the points that heterosexual transmission of AIDS is virtually impossible, but have thus far been unsuccessful.

[Smokin' Joe]

Rose was raised as a good Catholic schoolgirl by her grandparents, but now the 18-year-old orphan survives by selling sex in a Ugandan slum with scant regard for the teachings of the church.

"I'd like to follow the Church's teachings, but with condoms you can stay safe," she said.

Hang the fact that fornication is not exactly on the 'DO' list....

[syriacus]

1. Africa Activists Want Catholics to Back Condoms
2. Some activists say the church is less influential than it seems. ..People don't often listen to what they are told in church

Basic contradiction alert!!

Is the Church influential, or not influential?

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Mr. Silverback]

The condom question also confronts Catholics with a dilemma: those who defy the church hierarchy to champion condom use in the belief it will save lives run the risk of becoming pariahs within their own parishes.

Let's take this out of the realm of sex and death, and look at it for a moment.

Let's say that I looked around and saw that after 40 years of the Great Society silliness, I see that the poor are still poor despite our best efforts. So I start telling people it's OK to steal if you're very poor. Just pick somebody rich and rob them blind.

I'll bet I'd quickly become a pariah in my church, and no number of Leftist activists crying out against the mean, nasty tenets of Christianity would change that.

Plus, trying to prevent AIDS with condoms is like having seatbelts made of spaghetti.

[SuziQ]

While abstinence may sound fine in theory, activists say poverty forces many young people in Africa into selling sex just to survive, making it impossible for them to avoid intercourse.

Instead of pushing condoms, why aren't the governments addressing the problems of improving their economies so that jobs will be created?

It also sounds like those who are pushing the condom idea aren't worried about the Church's teachings about anything else, why the condoms? The young women who are prostitutes might as well go ahead and have their clients use condoms, I mean, the situation is sinful already, the use of condoms isn't going to make it any worse.