Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:20:48 -0400 From: "neil rangel" <[email protected]>
The Roman Catholic Church cannot and will never sanction the use of condoms for the prevention of AIDS or any other sexually transmitted disease. The use of a condom is inherently evil and under no circumstances will the Catholic Church ever sanction the use of evil so that some good may come out of it. Mario obsrves: It makes no logical sense to call condoms "inherently" evil. What may be inherently evil are any deliberately overblown claims of the efficacy of condoms, without all the necessary caveats about proper material and proper application, which may lull the ignorant or the desperate or the careless into a false sense of security. The Pope was speaking as a moral leader, not a politician or advocate or health care specialist, but he was also clinically correct to say that only abstinence or a monogamous sexual relationship with an uninfected partner can honestly be described as "safe". All one can honestly say about condoms is that, properly used, LATEX condoms are far safer than not using any protection at all. I once asked a gynaecologist if she would have sex with a man whom she knew had HIV/AIDS if he agreed to wear a condom. "Of course not", she said, "But it helps those who cannot control themselves or have no choice." This told me all I needed to know. No one wants to admit in this age of political correctness and lowered moral standards that HIV/AIDS "for the most part" is not a disease which comes looking for unsuspecting victims like the old air borne and water borne pandemics in the past used to do. Except in the very sad cases of people getting infected by sex partners they did not suspect of carrying the disease and the even sadder cases of children being born with the disease, many victims work pretty hard at getting the disease, or believe that condoms will always keep them "safe".
