Posted on 05/25/2006 7:59:47 AM PDT by IrishMike
LONDON, May 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British pop music star Elton John has attacked the Catholic Church and its position on condom use as a reason for the demise of 60 of his friends to the sexually-transmitted disease, AIDS.
Speaking at a business awards ceremony, he said, "We don't have a medical vaccine but we have a social vaccine and it's called education." He failed to include in his so-called education platform that condoms may be a leading reason for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Even leading health experts at the United Nations have acknowledged that condoms have an estimated 10% failure rate.
Edward C. Green, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health explained in 2003 that the one in ten failure rate of condoms protection from AIDS is "not good enough for a fatal disease." He added, "The way condoms are marketed in Africa and other developing parts of the world is as if they were 100 percent safe."
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....demise of 60 of his friends to the sexually-transmitted disease, AIDS..... Demise of 60 friends ??
How can the church be blamed for spreading a disease that wouldn't spread if behavior were modified?
Hey Elton .. the church suggests not to have gay sex
How about you take personal responsibility for your own actions
Oh, Elton... I doubt that any of your friends were anymore influenced by the church's position on condoms any more than they were influenced by the church's position on sodomy...
His friends decided to listen to the church about CONDOMS?!
It's everybody's fault but the Sodomite's. It's a third grade mentality that doesn't take responsibility for its actions.
A convenient but irrational fiction.
You have got to be kidding me? Has Elton ever heard the phrase 'personal responsibilty'? How is it a Gay, or anyone for that matter, makes the choice to screw around yet opts for a religious no-no in the condom department?
That is just so much Bull Hockey...it makes you laugh. WHINE, Elton, Whine.
This begs for a song but it would probably get pulled.
The men who refused to control their lust even in the face of the risk (known for decades now) of contracting a deadly disease are NOT at fault here. The people who warn them that their practice of sodomy could well kill them are at fault.
Makes perfect sense.
"Oh no!" says Bruce, "is there anything that can be done?"
"Listen carefully", says the doc. "I want you to go home and eat.......2lbs of hot sausage meat.....3 cans of baked beans....half a head of cabbage......3 carrots.....10 hot Jalapeno peppers.........half a box of Grape Nuts and I want you to wash the whole thing down with half a gallon of prune juice!!"
"Gee doc, will that cure me?" says Bruce.
"No......",says the doc "but it will teach you what your ass is for!!"
Obviously, The Church would have nothing to say about the use of condoms and gays. Why would it? Birth control is not an issue,
I wonder if he supports mandatory testing, a registry of those positive, and criminal charges brought against those positives who engage in sexual activity with other human beings?
I'm guessing that program would be more effective than condoms.
"the one in ten failure rate of condoms protection from AIDS is not good enough for a fatal disease."
Don't most condoms have 'Not for the prevention of disease' clearly printed on the package? I guess the 60 or so friends of Elton that died of Aids were also illiterate along with being degenerate sodomites.
I wonder if Elton would have sex with a guy that has AIDS if the guy wore a condom. I somehow doubt that he would.
"We don't have a medical vaccine but we have a social vaccine and it's called education."
Yes. And the lesson is - “Don’t stick you #*&# up some other guy’s #*#.
The only way elton's comment could be true is if his 60 "friends" were molested as children by infected gay priests. Apparently elton agrees that the gay priest scandal has brought much of the problems the church suffers today.
Doesn't the gay community also blame Reagan for aids? After all, he didn't pour billions of dollars of taxpayer money into aids research, therefore he is responsible!!
I suspect the 60 friends of Eltons who died of aids:1)did not use condoms,and 2)had unprotected sex with numerous partners.You play,you pay:(
If you don't want to get a disease that is primarily spread through homosexual sex and drug use, then DON'T HAVE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OR USE DRUGS!
The Bible has been very clear on this for a long time, and so has the Catholic Church.
Haven't you seen the army of Catholic militants standing outside of pharmacies, grocery stores, truck stops and public school health clinics waiting to destroy the incoming cartons of trojans? Haven't you seen the parish members emptying the condom packages and replacing the contents with rosaries? Haven't you seen the effects of the church's campaign to outlaw condom sales to the public? No longer able to buy condoms openly, those who need them are forced to buy on the black market. Sneaking into back alleys to meet with Russian mafia condom kinpins.
How could you have missed this? Oh wait sorry alternate universe for the paranoid is not activated. Never mind.
Guess their own behaviour never enters into the consequences they garner.
Have another cheeseburger and chocolate cake, Reggie.
Elton, get the memo: it's not the Church's fault - it's Bush's fault!
Sheesh!
Denial of personal responsibility. It's always some authority's fault: the Church, President Bush, right-wing neo-cons, etc etc.
You go it, Thombo. Elton's pals probably paid no attention to all of the warnings concerning sex without condoms.
But then, aren't gay folk, in America, largely responsible for the spreading of the disease by partaking in one-night-stand sex with strangers?
Yep the Catholic Church is responsible for the bare-backing in the San Fran and London bath houses.
Nice verse, I'll have to remember that.
Thanks.
Exactly.
TTTOOOO MMMUUUCCCHHHH !
Brought tears to my eyes.
Thanks.
Huh?
"That dudn't make any sense..." (Laura Ingraham soundbite)
We are supposed to believe that gay men will defy the church teachings on sex but follow their teachings on condoms? If they had followed ALL of the Catholic church's teachings they would still be alive today, Elton. So it is YOUR ideas and practices that killed them.
Elton, you poor pathetic fool. Stop trying to rationalize the guilt and responsibility of sin by blaming the Catholic Church. These 60 friends of yours choose self-will in preference to God's Will and are to blame for their own sins.
Umm, ok. So they are NOT listening to the Catholic order to not have gay sex, but ARE listening to the Catholic order to not wear condoms... yeah Elton and you are a lumberjack.
Sheesh.
Oh, yeah, like those fairies listened to the Church.
I was once involved in planning a company function for the families of associates. We sent out no less than 10 messages that you MUSY sign up by "X" date. Two weeks after the cutoff date I got an email from some idiot who didn't sign up and wouldn't I hate it if he had to tell his kids they can't go. I sent him bad a short note and told him it was a fine time to teach them a lesson in personal responsibility. He didn't go.
And I'm not suprised that he hasn't yet blamed it all on Bush....
Stupid is as stupid does....
Well put.
I think he's blaming the wrong people. I don't think the Pope's the blame for their behavior.
The fact he's an outspoken pervert is just more kindling...
BLECCKK! :-Þ
How can he blame it on the Catholic Church? Everybody knows it's Bush's fault. s/
Funny. I thought most AIDS was caused by being careless about where they placed their putz.
Elton John must be a moron. Does he not know that AIDs is a behavioral disease? Stop the risky behavior and you end the disease! Unlike cancer, tuberculosis, and other diseases one wants to avoid, AIDs can be cured overnight with behavioral changes, whether it be to stop drug use and dirty drug needles or keeping your zipper up. Send him a telegram!
Your right!
While there is no specific, authoritative Vatican policy on using condoms to protect against AIDS, the Vatican opposes condoms because they are a form of what the church calls artificial contraception.
Pope Benedict XVI repeated the Vatican's position last June, when he told African bishops abstinence was the only "fail-safe" way to prevent the spread of HIV.
Shutup John, we're all enjoying the SHORTER lifespan of queers. Well, most of us anyway.
Perpetual victimhood.
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