Thursday, 23 November 2006
Will Pope Hitler II stop the insanity?
« "You're not fooling anyone you know. . ." | Main | Watching Bush/Maliki press conference »The Roman Catholic church has taken the first step towards what could be a historic shift away from its total ban on the use of condoms.
Pope Benedict XVI's "health minister" is understood to be urging him to accept that in restricted circumstances - specifically the prevention of Aids - barrier contraception is the lesser of two evils.
Gee we're only 25 years or so into the AIDS crisis....you think it might be time to start telling people to use condoms? The article goes on to discuss the previous pope's assertion that the Catholic Church would never agree to contraceptive use, that every act 'must be open to life'.
I can't for the life of me fathom how in this day and age some people are still trying to pretend sex is for procreation only. Women are only fertile for a few days a month, or in my case, a few times a year (owing to polycystic ovarian syndrome). Are we all honestly expected to abstain when there's no possibility of conception? It's just stupid. Some people believe homosexuality is unnatural (even though it's been documented as occuring in nature among dozens of species); honestly, it's ABSTINENCE that is unnatural. Once we accept that, we can finally move on to educating people in a non-judgmental way about how to protect themselves from disease.
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