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Scientist blames Vatican dogma for AIDS pandemic (likens pope to Hitler)
The Age ^
| December 4, 2005
| Annabel Crabb
Posted on 12/06/2005 6:32:18 AM PST by NYer
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To: NYer
What logic!
So those gay Catholics who have thrown the church's view of homosexuality out the window of course adhere to the no condom rule set forth by the church.
You have to draw the line somewhere I suppose.
To: A.A. Cunningham
Are you serious? Does Dumbo do acrobatics when he's busy condemning the Catholic Church?
To: NYer
BTW, would you mind putting this screen name on your ping list? The name change became permanent.
To: NYer
Of course, sticking one's winky where it doesn't belong has nothing to do with the spread of AIDS... Sheesh.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:02:29 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: NYer
Extension:
"Scientist blames Vatican dogma for AIDS pandemic" and blames Diet Coke for Obesity. "Haven't you noticed that all the fat people are drinking Diet Coke?" the scientist queried.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:08:46 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Dems Cut and Run on their own ideas!)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Do you suppose he fled to pommyland because he ran afoul of Rule 1?
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:11:38 AM PST
by
dsc
To: NYer
There used to be a lot of talk about condoms having a 17% failure rate in preventing AIDS.
Whatever happened to that issue?
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:13:57 AM PST
by
dsc
To: Dallas59
Why is it always someone else's fault.......AIDS is entirely preventable....but not by blaming someone else.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:14:17 AM PST
by
newcthem
(Madison: Twenty square miles surrounded on all sides by reality)
To: NYer
South Africa has a serious AIDS problem .... perhaps the worst in the world. It is seven percent Catholic. It looks like Lord May needs to rework some of his mathematical equations.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:19:35 AM PST
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: The Phantom FReeper
Those in Planned Parenthood have, I think, a flawed view of human nature. Humanitarianism is helpless before human perversity. We are like dogs returning to our vomit. When John Rock came out with his pill more than 40 years ago, it was part of his pitch that it would eliminate the need for abortion. Planned Parenthood made the same pitch and a number of liberal priests engaged in a lovefeast, advancing the same notion. But wide distribution of the pill and other means of contraception have not eliminated abortion (on the contrary). Human beings are such that we resist discipline, any denial of what we crave, and only strong social pressure will make us restrict our activities. The Sexual Revolution eliminated many of the social controls which has held down the incidents of disease and unwanted pregnancies. Of course people will do what they want to do even in the face of all coercion. That's why people are in jail. That's why people denying of lung cancer will continue to smoke, even though they could add five years of life by quitting.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:19:44 AM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: dsc
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:21:36 AM PST
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: layman
Thailand has a huge AIDs problem. Aint no Catholic Country. Indeed, it is a Buddhist country with a pagoda in every village.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:22:49 AM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: NYer
AUSTRALIA'S most distinguished expatriate scientist, Lord May of Oxford, has launched an attack on the Catholic Church, blaming Vatican policy for the spread of AIDS in the Third World.
There used to be a thing called the scientific method (or something like that). That's when a scientist would make a hypothesis and then run an experiment. The scientist would record the results and repeat.
So, here's my hypothesis: if someone follows Catholic teachings on sexuality, they won't get AIDS. I will run two experiments - the first experiment will be on a group of people who follow Catholic teachings on sexuality. I will observe and record the rates of AIDS among them. The second group will be people who oppose Catholic teachings on AIDS. I will observe (though not too closely) and record the rates of AIDS among them. I wonder what that experiment will show? If my results prove the initial hypothesis to be accurate, can I then apply as Australia's new premier ex-patriot scientist (or whatver he is)?
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:27:29 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: A.A. Cunningham
You can't blame him for the poofey costume ... but even with that, he looks like he probably violates Rule One.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:28:19 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: NYer
Men ignoring the Catholic church teachings against sodomy are going to heed the church teachings against the use of condoms? Fascinating logic.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:30:17 AM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
To: The Electrician
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:31:58 AM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
To: NYer
"Vatican policy on contraception" is, in fact, a policy on contraception so the good scientist may want to examine the link between the policy and conception rates among Catholics. Seems to me that the Vatican's positions on pre-marital and extra-marital sex would be the ones that would have the greatest bearing on AIDS rates. Monogamous people have their risk of AIDS decreased greatly- regardless of their use of contraception.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:34:44 AM PST
by
philled
To: NYer
the Vatican's opposition to the use of condoms was an example of "dogma" leading to the deliberate misrepresentation of facts, at great human cost. No, legitimizing homosexuality is an example of dogma based on a willful ignorance of facts, at great human cost.
The Church maintains that homosexuality is a sin to be avoided. If it were avoided, AIDS would disappear. Yet the Church is somehow responsible for AIDS.
And people wonder why liberals have a reputation for absurdity ...
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:38:04 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: dsc
Judging by the picture of him, the phallic object (which he does call "Bruce"), and the way he's smiling, I'd say he's a Poofter.
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:39:34 AM PST
by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
To: RebelBanker
"Is he called Bruce?"
My guess would be "Sheila."
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posted on
12/06/2005 7:41:25 AM PST
by
dsc
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