(August 29, 2015 at 5:59 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 5:53 pm)abaris Wrote: 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.
Which is not what I said at all.