The Pope, because Rubber Shaped like a Willy is Sinful
17th Mar 2009 21:40:15
AIDS is a disease that has no symptoms for years. Men and women can catch it and have no idea that they have, during which time they can infect as many other people as they have sex with. The Catholic church teaches abstinance, which is undoubtably, 100% effective.
Or is it? It seems obvious that "not having sex" can't spread AIDS, and indeed, it can't. But remember, the Catholic Church ALSO teaches that condoms are immoral and wrong for married couples as well. Yes, putting a little bit of rubber around the penis is immoral now. But don't worry, Holocaust Denial is fine.
We digress though, so back to the subject at hand. Yes, condoms are "immoral" for married couples. But a person can only control their own actions. The actions of their wife or husband can't be controlled. If your partner is unfaithful and lies to you, and the two of you don't use condoms, then you're in with a chance of AIDS. The Pope's words will be, and are being, harmful to Africa. More than two-thirds of the 32.9 million people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, and 75% of all Aids deaths in 2007 happened there.
Dr Rachel Baggaley of Christian Aid
Besides all this, we must remind ourselves that sex isn't a horrific, immoral activity with the sole function of procreation. It's a perfectly natural, normal thing, and people shouldn't feel stigmatised for wanting to have it. If two grown up people (of any combination of genders, I might add) want to partake in mutually consentual sex, or other sexual activities, this is none of anybody else's business, and those two people should certainly play safe and use condoms. Sex is not immoral.
AIDS, however, is not a game, and nor is it fun. Millions and millions of people die each year, in Africa and around the world, to this terrible, and relatively preventable disease. We cannot afford to teach people to practise unsafe sex, we cannot have anyone lying to people, saying that condoms have holes through which viruses and sperm can pass through, to do so would be, and is, wrong.
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