Posted on 05/25/2006 7:59:47 AM PDT by IrishMike
LONDON, May 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British pop music star Elton John has attacked the Catholic Church and its position on condom use as a reason for the demise of 60 of his friends to the sexually-transmitted disease, AIDS.
Speaking at a business awards ceremony, he said, "We don't have a medical vaccine but we have a social vaccine and it's called education." He failed to include in his so-called education platform that condoms may be a leading reason for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Even leading health experts at the United Nations have acknowledged that condoms have an estimated 10% failure rate.
Edward C. Green, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health explained in 2003 that the one in ten failure rate of condoms protection from AIDS is "not good enough for a fatal disease." He added, "The way condoms are marketed in Africa and other developing parts of the world is as if they were 100 percent safe."
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesite.net ...
And just think... I come home from work to find I missed this:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196685,00.html
Gee... If flap A is not inserted in slot B, then package HIV is (generally) not delivered. Intelligence and logic certainly aren't Sire Elton's forte!
Oh geez .. there are sooo many comments I could posts .. but all would be deleted *L*
GAY ROMAN CATHOLICS?.. to hell you say?..
signed; Anti-Normalphobe..
We also have a moral vaccine and it's called chastity.
Memorialized in song ---- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1638321/posts
Lol! Prezackly!
If every one of those 60 friends had followed the teachings of the Catholic Church, i.e., chastity, they would not have contracted AIDS. John's statements are pure slander.
More bickering from gays because even the vampires are refusing to drink their blood.
Hmm..so what would the Catholics response be if the Pope and clergy one day came out with (say in 800 years) statements in support of homosexuality? Would he be "replaced" by the bishops? Or voted out somehow?
Doncha know?
If the Catholic Church had embraced condoms, those guys wouldn't have died!!!
/sarc
Don't worry, Bush will get his Opus Dei hit man on John's trail immediately...
"I don't want to go in to you like that. The Pope says I shouldn't even wear a hat..."
It's also strange that Elton is going off on the Catholics when they can't possibly make up any more than 10% of the population of Britain. How did they achieve mind control over Elton's friends?
Abomination Elton, abomination...
If you knew a partner had aids, would you trust a bit of latex to keep you from getting it? Likely not. But if you are lured into a false sense that a condom will protect you, then you likely will not give the odds a second thought.
Those odds are that condoms have a 10% failure rate. Them's bad odds.
Yes, they blame him for fostering the spread of AIDS because he did not speak about the disease soon enough to suit them. As though gay men would have altered their behavior, if only their political enemy Reagan had warned them not to have sex. As though all the warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and other health agencies somehow were not credible, but a few words from Reagan would have been.
Sickeningly dishonest.
..........Those odds are that condoms have a 10% failure rate. Them's bad odds............
Not being much of a gambler save for a few superbowl boxes, you ain't sh#tting about them's bad odds.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.