Identify any examples of fallacies in the following passage.?

Question

Which fallacies category does this passage belong in, if it
fits any category listed.
The Ad Hominem Fallacy-Personal Attack Ad Hominem-Inconsistency Ad Hominem-Circumstantial Ad Hominem-Poisoning The Well-Genetic Fallacy-Positive Ad Hominem Fallacies-Straw Man-False Dilemma-Perfectionist Fallacy-Line Drawing Fallacy-Slippery Slope-Misplacing The Burden of Proof

In February 1992, a representative of the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico
gave a radio interview (broadcast on National Public Radio) in which he
said that the Church was against the use of condoms. Even though the
rate of AIDS infection in Puerto Rico is much higher than on the U.S.
mainland, the spokesman said that the Church could not support the use
of condoms because they are not absolutely reliable in preventing the
spread of the disease. “If you could prove that condoms were absolutely
dependable in preventing a person from contracting AIDS, then the
Church could support their use.”

Answer 1

It's the Straw Man fallacy.

The Catholic Church is not against condoms because of their inability to prevent disease, it is against them because of their ability to prevent pregnancy.

He is correct that condoms aren't 100% effective in preventing AIDS, but he dissembles by saying that this is relevant to the Church being against their use.

It is a straw man argument because even if you were to knock that one down, they'd put up another one anyway.

Answer 2

*Is Catholic*

The real answer is that the representative of the Catholic Church does not know the teaching of the Catholic Church. So it is straw man or inconsistency.

If condoms where 100% effective against AIDS, pregnancy, disease, the Church will still find that the use of condoms to be 100% sinful.

Why? Because the condom violates the sanctity of the marital act, openness to life, and the rights of the wife/husband.

Answer 3

I can see that the person was attempting to do. Condoms are not 100% effective against preventing HIV. They are not even 100% effective against preventing pregnancy. This representative is using the fact to make it seem like condoms cannot prevent disease at all and that is why the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico does not support them. What the person is ignoring is that condom use would greatly lower the chances of disease. I think the person knows this. He is letting his religious beliefs prevent him from saving lives.

Answer 4

“If you could prove that condoms were absolutely dependable in preventing a person from contracting AIDS, then the Church could support their use.”
Sounds like an example of the perfectionist fallacy: If something is not going to work perfectly, don't try it at all.

Answer 5

I don't think it's a straw man, because he didn't set one up. It's clearly the Perfectionist Fallacy, in which only perfect solutions are seen as worthwhile.