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Originally Posted by FireFly
I'm fairly certain the Vatican is not saying "You will get AIDS from using condoms"... It is saying, "Using condoms will not stop the spread of AIDS".
There's a HUGE difference there.
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“Every condom sold sends the buyer to acquire the AIDS virus.”
Fr. Gerald Magera Iga, in a campaign urging condom sellers in Uganda to burn up their stocks [Comtex newswire, January 25, 1999].
“Use of this product is harmful to health.”
Condom warning label suggested by Mexico City Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera [La Jornada (Mexico), August 29, 1997].
"But pseudo-scientific arguments have also been deployed by some conservative Catholics against the use of condoms as a means of HIV prevention. A recent BBC Panorama documentary found that some senior Catholic clerics were maintaining that not only were condoms theologically unsound, but were also spreading false information about the reliability and safety of condoms.
Thousands, even millions, of new HIV infections have therefore been attributed to the Catholic church’s, and in particular late pontiff’s, uncompromising opposition to the use of condoms. There are even moves for women who refused to use condoms on religious grounds and were infected with HIV by their husbands to be regarded as martyrs for the Catholic faith."
http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/DF198...28E771B42D.asp