(August 29, 2015 at 5:53 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This doesn't make much sense, Vic. You're saying they all got AIDS because they're following Church teaching. But Church teaching is that you shouldn't have sex at all except in a monogamous relationship with a life partner... it isn't that you should have sex with multiple people and just not wear a condom when you do it lol.
Saving sex for monogamous life long relationships would, in fact, help bring down AIDS if it was actually followed. So it's not that AIDS continued to spread because they were following Church teaching, it continued to spread because they weren't.
There's church teachings, there's human nature and there's male pride. Especially in the more paternalistic societies.
If abstinence only doesn't work in a developed country like the US, why would you think, it works in other regions of the world. Regardless of anyone's moral standpoint, a comprehensive and responsible sex education (which abstinence only isn't) can ultimately safe lives. And in it's absence, it can cost lives.
That's fine Abaris, but the point I was making in regard to Vic's post is that those people in Africa weren't spreading aids due to actually following Church teaching.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
