RE: What Human Rights?
August 30, 2015 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2015 at 2:29 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(August 30, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Neimenovic Wrote:(August 30, 2015 at 9:57 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm just wary of how factually accurate these articles actually are. They are clearly extremely biased, not even pretending not to be.
Quote:In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI said that widespread use of condoms could worsen the situation, a position rejected as 'unscientific'.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21507723
I don't doubt that they said the safer option is abstinence and that you can still get aids while using condoms. I remember when the Pope said that condoms would worsen the situation because it would encourage people to continue to sleep around, while also saying that the better solution would be a deeper respect for human sexuality through monogamy. I agree with all that. But it was the way it was laid out in the articles may have blown things out of proportion to villainize the Church. Kind of like how your first post about this was that the Church was telling people condoms would kill them. Not exactly the case.
"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
