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2007-02-11 13:31:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic Church is not promoting AIDS. It is promoting chastity just like it has for the last 2,000 years.
Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.
If the world is going to ignore teachings about chastity (1 & 2), then why is the world so upset about teaching artificial birth control (3)?
People who are already ignoring the more important teachings about chastity (1 and 2) should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching of artificial birth control (3).
Even if a person infected with AIDS was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.
In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church makes it a practice not to tell people how to sin. Fornication with or without a condom is still fornication. Adultery with or without a condom is still adultery.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-11 16:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your question is about the Church's condemnation of condoms...here is your answer:
Condoms do not prevent the spread of AIDS. The only way to prevent the spread of AIDS is to not have sex.
Condoms are used in one of two ways- either by a couple engaging in sex outside of marriage, which is by definition sinful...OR
By married couple seeking to prevent the transmission of life in the sex act- also inherently sinful- even more so because one of the main focuses of marriage is the openness to the transmission of life. The other is the mutual well being of the husband and wife. Couples who practice artificial contraception are living a lie with their bodies, refusing to completely give themselves to each other. If one partner has a disease such as AIDS, a loving spouse would not want to take any chance of infecting their husband/wife- even at the expenxe of giving up sex.
2007-02-14 11:18:48 · answer #2 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not promoting aids they are saying sex before marriage is wrong. The Bible says that sex before marriage / premarital sex is repeatedly condemned in Scripture (Acts 15:20; Romans 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13,18; 7:2; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7). The Bible promotes abstinence before marriage. Sex before marriage is just as wrong as adultery and other forms of sexual immorality, because they all involve having sex with someone you are not married to. Sex between a husband and his wife is the only form of sexual relations that God approves of (Hebrews 13:4).
God Bless You
2007-02-11 13:41:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You'd think the Catholic Church would be handing out safe sex kits to their priests, wouldn't you, after all the sex priests seem to be having? I've always wondered why millions of heterosexual couples don't use birth control or safe sex because a few men who dress in satin robes and dresses, spend their lives living in luxury, who only live with other men, tell them to...but I think the Vatican wants more "little" Catholics and that's why birth control is banned..and condoms are a form of birth control. Based on my experiences growing up with fundamentalists, the Vatican probably blames those who get AIDS since they were "sinful".
2007-02-11 13:40:23 · answer #4 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abstinence before marriage and fidelity in marriage does not promote AIDS; just the opposite.
2007-02-11 13:56:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why are you promoting a lie?
2007-02-11 13:59:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋