What Human Rights?

[Catholic_Lady]

Vic... I don't think the Church ever said that condoms kill people... :/

They may have said that condoms are not 100% at preventing AIDS and that abstinence is a safer option (which is true), but not that they are some sort of poison that will kill the person who wears it lol.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/condom...board-ads/

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A project promoting chastity instead of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS in Tanzania has caught the attention of authorities. Three billboard signs, bearing a photo of a grinning skeleton on a red background with the caption, "Faithful Condom User" in English and Swahili, were erected by an African affiliate of Human Life International (HLI) and local authorities are "going ballistic".

 The caption is a send-up of the so-called "ABC" slogan commonly applied by the international aid organisations: "Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms". With the minimum of ten percent failure rate for latex condoms, even when "correctly" used, and the 100 per cent fatality rate of AIDS, many experts have denounced the condom doctrine as a death trap.

 Nevertheless, critics have called the ABC slogan, devised to appease the critics of condom promotion, disingenuous and racist, saying it implies that the goals of chastity are unrealistic for Africans.

 HLI says that one large billboard was placed near a main road in the capital city of Dar es Salaam while two smaller versions were put up elsewhere in the city. Fr. Tom Euteneuer writes, "While we presumed that this message and graphic would be controversial, we didn’t expect the international condom lobby to go utterly ballistic over it!"

Clearly, that billboard conveys the message that using a condom is deadly. The group that put it up, Human Life International, is a Catholic apostolate. If the Pope does not want that message out, can he not speak up? How should atheists interpret his silence?

Taking into account what I've heard many Church leaders say about condoms and aids, my impression from this billboard is that they believe a person can still get aids while wearing a condom and it is not safe to rely on it when it's the only thing between you and a deadly virus. In that context, yes, they think it's "deadly."

Whether people see this and believe that wearing a condom will kill them as though it were some sort of poison, and so they think it's actually better to have sex with an aids infected person without one on, I do not know.