Tuesday, March 17, 2009

and why should anyone take sex advice from this man?

On Africa trip, pope says condoms won't solve AIDS

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against HIV, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent. It was the pope's first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.
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"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane heading to Yaounde. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

The pope said a responsible and moral attitude toward sex would help fight the disease.

The Roman Catholic Church rejects the use of condoms as part of its overall teaching against artificial contraception. Senior Vatican officials have advocated fidelity in marriage and abstinence from premarital sex as key weapons in the fight against AIDS.
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This man is incredibly - and dangerously - naive to say that condoms "increases the problem" of AIDs.
Unfortunately, some people are stupid enough to think that this idiot can back up his statement with anything more than "cause i said so".
Just another example of how dangerous religion can be...