Fom the Wall Street Journal (paid link):
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms weren’t the answer in the continent’s fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients…“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon, where he will begin a seven-day pilgrimage on the continent. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.”
As your immigrant great-grandpa used to say: “He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules.”
I guess it depends on what you define as "the problem." Popenführer Ratzenberger doesn't see HIV or AIDS as the problem, I'd suggest.
Posted by: Mahakal on March 17, 2009 12:29 PMThe answers are:
1) Alzheimer's
2) Senility
3) Superstition
4) Stupidity
5) All of the above.
circle one.
I don't believe anyone with minimal intelligence believes it is the cure. However, all nations (minus USA, sadly) trying to deal with this problem realistically, while researching a cure, have publicly acknowledged and publicly announced the need for condoms in the interim.
One country that I particularly admire long ago publicly encouraged the placement of condom machines easily accessible to schools, which teenagers attend.
The realization that fear of HIV alone will not and should not evoke abstinence in teenagers or adults with hormones is just simply logical. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, now I understand why we are where we are.
Posted by: mfd on March 17, 2009 2:12 PMThat country that I accidentally failed to mention is Australia.
Posted by: on March 17, 2009 2:19 PMNo need for condoms. Live fast, die early, meet your Creator.
Posted by: Peter on March 17, 2009 2:50 PMThanks for making me laugh out loud on a Wednesday morning at work!
Posted by: nolierob on March 18, 2009 10:14 AM