Who's lying about condom use: The Vatican or the CDC, World Health Organization, the AMA, and?

Question

The Vatican is a gainst condom use, even between *married* couples , because it claims condoms do not prevent the transmission of HIV.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1059068,00.html

But the overwhelming evidence shows that routine condom use prevents HIV transmission 80% of the time or more. This is backed up by the US government, the WHO, the UN, and American Medical Association:

http://www.thebody.com/content/art17057.html
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8534&Cr=&Cr1=
http://www.unaids.org/en/MediaCentre/References/default.asp

What is the bigger sin against humanity - sex (marital or extra-marital) or denying basic protection against an extremely preventable but deadly disease?

Midge:

If you read any of the links provided, or if you ever look into any literature from any government/medical organization, you will see abstainance is always mentioned *first* and as the only 100% effective way to prevent HIV.

How many adult Catholics your age do you know have obstained 100% from premarital/extra-marital sex? Is this a sin that *deserves* to be punished with HIV?

What about a faithful wife whose husband strays: the husband picks up HIV from a prostitute and then infects his wife and subsequent children? Happens often in Africa. Shouldn't the wife be protected? If the husband used a condom with the prostitute, there would be an 80% less chance that the wife and kids had AIDS.

Answer 1

Why do people never bring abstinence into the equation. Sex is meant to be open to creating human life. If you barricade off the holy of holies lets say (the womb) then all that is left is lust.

This type of speech is what they started against the Jewish people with their propaganda about why the Jews were a danger to the society. Is this what is being pushed here? They want to make Catholics and especially the Pope public enemy number 1 by branding us being sinners against humanity? The sinners against humanity are the ones who call good evil and evil good. They are the ones that say homosexuality is normal. They are the ones that say if you are an elderly person who is ill you should kill yourself because you are a drain on society. They are the ones who make the human God and ignore the real God.

Answer 2

Your own figure of only 80% effectiveness seems to confirm that condoms do not prevent the transmission of HIV. At best they only limit it in some cases. With those odds I certainly wouldn't take the risk.

Cheers :-)

Answer 3

If the Vatican is right, I will stop wearing gloves (universal precautions) in my medical practice. Let's see how well that goes over.

Answer 4

A SIN is an artificial entity that the Organized Religion wants to control, in order to protect their power structure. SINs are NOT REAL

Listen to your conscience about right & wrong & you'll be fine.

Answer 5

Carl, it's so refreshing to hear and see the truth amidst all of this error.

Answer 6

the vatican is lying dowing what it dose best the same way it lyied about the priests that relgion needs to be banned on this planet it has cost 23millions lives in africa because of there fairy tale laws

Answer 7

The biggest sin against humanity is religious intolerance

Answer 8

the bigger sin against humanity would of course be the vatican,s stance(dogmatic as it is)
the bigger sin is unprotected sex(natural as it is)

Answer 9

Condom use mutilates the marriage act that's why Holy Mother Church opposes it.

It's lying with your body.:Darling, I give you everything ...... but wait... not my ability to be a parent. So it mutilates the total self-gift that is love.

But then who would think about love when all we secularized Westerners think of is pleasure???

Answer 10

honey , the Vatican thinks that the Rhythm method is effective, what do they know?