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In reply to the discussion: The Pope's comments on family and marriage seem very much open to interpretation-WRONG [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Africa, 100,000+ AIDS dead each month. Church forbids condoms and tells people they spread HIV. 44% of Uganda is RCC, 7.2% of Uganda lives with HIV, most recent year with a count had 62,000 deaths in Uganda from AIDS. Assistance groups cite a lack of education about prevention and also religious objections to explain why in a place with such decades long health crisis only 13% of Ugandans have ever used a condom.
So those teaching matter. This is a planet shared with others. Just the millions of orphans created should give anyone pause. Millions of orphans. Millions of dead. Some of the clergy of course are glad to see excess orphans for reasons of their own, reasons that will never be punished by their company.
I've studied Jesus and I think he would stand with the sick and the orphans and the condoms. So that's the way I'm going with it.
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