| Rath said: Oh yeah, I completely agree with you Highway. The Vatican has many many deaths on their hands from their refusal to allow the use of condoms. However this is a big step from just a year ago when the Pope was saying that condoms actually made the AIDs pandemic worse. |
I suppose you have to give credit where credit is due too. The Catholic church is the single largest financial supporter of AIDS prevention*, which is good, and that this is a significant step in the right direction.
But it still doesn't deter me from the fact that their position on condoms is one of the main reasons why AIDS has ravaged sub saharan Africa in the first place. It would be admirable if this lead to a significant reduction in the AIDS pandemic, and I'll give them the respect once they start acting on this and saying condoms are ok.
(*Although I think that's because it's such a big problem for sub Saharan Catholics, and they know their policies on condoms are one of the major causes of it.)
