Posted on 10/15/2003 11:26:23 AM PDT by UnbornChild
Could you please take a look at the article and vote "5" at the bottom?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=3&u=/nm/pope_aids_dc
Yahoo has a section with the highest-rated articles. Also, if you have friends who might be interested in reading this article, please press the "Email Story" link. It has a "Most Popular" section as well. I think this could be a good Freep, because it would result in more people seeing this article. I hope this works!
I agree with this statement from a practical as well as a religious and moral standpoint. Anyone who has sex with someone with AIDS, with or without a condom, is out of his skull. The figures I have seen suggests that there is about a 15-20% chance of condom failure with the AIDS virus, not the kind of odds you want when you're playing with death. Although the sex educators advocate condom use for others, few of them are stupid enough to take this kind of risk themselves.
The article goes on to quote the usual suspects--dissident cardinals--who disagree with the Vatican on this issue, notably the heretic archbishop of Los Angeles.
Let's assume condoms fail 5% of the time. The math shows that, on average, every 20 times a person has sex with a condom and an HIV positive partner, they'll be exposed to the virus.
Those odds are not good.
Better odds are on getting federal money for your organization to tell young adults that a condom is "safer sex". Safer than what? Safer than having unprotected sex 19 times.
Let's assume condoms fail 5% of the time. The math shows that, on average, every 20 times a person has sex with a condom and an HIV positive partner, they'll be exposed to the virus.
Those odds are not good.
Better odds are on getting federal money for your organization to tell young adults that a condom is "safer sex". Safer than what? Safer than having unprotected sex 19 times.
But young people don't know that. They think a pregnancy with contraception is some astronomically rare event. I used to think so. Until I started posting on a Natural Family Planning board. A number of people there had conceived or knew people who had conceived *even while* using contraception.
It's the same for condoms. Nothing is fail-proof.
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