SubscribePope Benedict XVI, who is making his first papal visit to Africa, has said that handing out condoms is not the answer in the fight against HIV/Aids.
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HIV/Aids was, he argued, “a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which can even increase the problem”.
The solution lay, he said, in a “spiritual and human awakening” and “friendship for those who suffer”.
In a nation with an enormous HIV/AIDS infection rate, hampered by silly superstitions and generally awful conditions, one of the most effective ways to reduce STDs is to encourage the use of cheap, readily-available contraceptives like condoms. Then you get the Catholic Church involved, who tells everybody that condoms make AIDS worse. And all because they can’t stand it when people don’t subscribe to their ridiculous “protected sex qua sin” idea.
The pope can go take a long walk off a short pier.
hat tip: PZ Myers
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