They also think that condums are the cure for AIDs, despite all evidence to the contrary. One field clinic is worth more than all the money spent to distribute condoms in Africa.
Exactly. Studies have shown that in third-world countries where sex-ed and condoms are spread around, AIDS rates increase drastically. But in the Phillipines, where Catholic authorities have succeeded in pushing abstinence, the AIDS rate has declined, although when AIDS first appeared it was as bad in the Phillipines as in Africa.