Pope rejects condom use in Africa

[thewiseguy]

Source: BBC NEWS

Pope Benedict XVI has said that handing out condoms is not the answer in the fight against HIV/Aids, as he makes his first visit to Africa as pontiff.

Speaking en route to Cameroon, he said distribution of condoms "increases the problem". The Vatican urges abstinence.

The Pope will also visit Angola on his week-long trip, where thousands are expected to attend open-air masses.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7947460.stm

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Instead, the church recommends sexual abstinence in the African continent!!!

[kirby]

1. What an ass...

Sexual abstinence among married couples will prevent AIDS from spreading?

[Sultana]

30. LOL, seriously

*shakes head*

Dumb Pope, sit your ass down!!!!!!

[msongs]

2. too bad he doesn't enforce abstinence in the child molesting priest class of his own church nt

[cliffordu]

3. Fuck the pope.

[Echo In Light]

9. I'll second that

[apnu]

18. Not with your dick.

ewww.







:hide:

[cliffordu]

20. Who wouldn't want

2.359 inches of throbbing, furious manhood to schwing around the vatican???


:rofl:

[superconnected]

35. Not without a condom.

[tridim]

4. Reject the pope

He's a useless piece of crap.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Couldn't these people just jerk off instead?.......

Oh wait he probably thinks that's a "sin" too. Please someone tell this Liberace dress up asshole to mind his own fucking business.

[walkaway]

6. Even when his priests are raping children?

Wow! He has the kind of balls you need to take over Poland!

[Mz Pip]

7. The folly of the narrow minded

and dogmatic creates more problems than it solves.

If everyone on the continent of Africa always followed the rigid dogma of the church there would be no AIDS. Good luck with that. How long has the church been preaching that? Is it working??

what needs to happen is to do everything possible - education, condoms, medicine. Not just the small minded rigidity of Catholic dogma.

[The Stranger]

8. Would someone kindly slap the living shit out of the man, and slap some sense into him?

Get this out-of-touch piece of shit on a plane back to his castle.

[Turbineguy]

10. They used to have a word for that

Endlösung.

[WCGreen]

11. What does he need a condom for...

He doesn't get nun...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. ROFL!

That is terrible!

:spank:

:rofl: :rofl:

[BobRossi]

12. Too bad his parents didn't use them.

Stupid ignorant fuck in silly hat telling others what to do with their peckers.

[acmavm]

13. Stupid old man. Cannot accept reality. People have sex. AND IT

IS NOT HELPING PEOPLE ONE BIT TO PREACH THIS ABSTINENCE SHIT!

If he cared about people at all, he'd do what is necessary to protect their lives, not push this ignorant bullshit.

[juajen]

14. Hey, I say, recall the Pope. NT

[Warpy]

15. Africa needs to reject this Pope

There is a point at which ignorance and dogma combine to form criminality and I think he's reached that point.

[gauguin57]

16. Who listens to celibate old men in dresses, telling us how to live our sex lives?

Sheesh.

So glad the dirt from that church has been long brushed from my shoes.

The damned church could CURE AIDS in Africa if it would sell some of its gold and art. Hell, some drag queen would probably pay a lot of money for that fancy dress the pope wears. Scratch that; drag queens have taste.

Don't mean to offend Catholic DUers, but, frankly, any church that still won't let women be leaders in the year 2009 doesn't deserve anyone's respect.

[HillWilliam]

17. What is it about these supposed "pro-life" people

that get such boners over other people's suffering and death? Biggest hypocrites on earth. One can't mouth "pro-life" and at once be the very vehicle for suffering and death. I don't even want to know what kind of fucked-up mental gymnastics a person has to do to lie to themselves and become so smugly arrogant and insane. That man and every right-wing apologist, enabler, and follower will (and rightly) burn in hell.

[hamsterjill]

19. Nonsense!

I'm going to call the pope's comment exactly what it is. Utter nonsense.

[dbonds]

21. That is criminal negligence.

[vinylsolution]

22. Joey the Rat is basically saying....

.... "We need millions more preventable deaths in Africa."

He should stand in front of Bishop Desmond Tutu and spout his nonsense. The little guy would slap the sh*t out of him.

[sakabatou]

24. Epic FAIL.

[happygoluckytoyou]

25. not using CONDOMS..... HE'S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HAVING SEX.... ! ! ! ! ! !

[AngryAmish]

29. He always struck me as a barebacker ...

[defendandprotect]

26. Note. .. the Vatican is chasing its new "fortunes" in Africa . . .

as it writes off the US, Canada, Great Britain --

But, "Is Catholicism good for Africa?

According to Vatican figures, the number of Catholics in Africa has been rising steadily in recent years. Baptised Catholics made up 17% of the African population in 2006, compared with 12% in 1978, the Vatican says.

According to the Pope, "spirituality" is abstinence...

The Pope isn't concerned about the epidemic, he's concerned about the Church's distorted/perverted

relationship with human sexuality.

[KillCapitalism]

27. Pope Benedict has always been cool with genocide.

You think anything has changed since his days in the Hitler Youth?

[Vinca]

28. Well . . . the Vatican could always sell their art collection and fund a cure. nt

[bemildred]

31. Why would anybody want to make the Pope use a condom in Africa? nt

[B Whale]

32. That is a fucking crime.

He's just condemned people to death, i hope he's happy

[noamnety]

33. Love the sinner, hate the sin

has been replaced with kill the sinner (and any women they rape).

[tabasco]

34. Stupid asshole.

'nuff said.

[lib_wit_it]

36. Cue Bill Maher here! Also, isn't abstinence anti-life? Pope should be against it.

[pleah]

37. This guy should be made to live in an African village for a couple of years,

maybe he will see the "light" then.

[FloridaJudy]

38. I'm speechless

And as any of my friends can tell you, one has to say something really dumb to make me do that!

[Hepburn]

39. The Nazi Pope is a Fucking Idiot. eom

[IndianaGreen]

40. Unfortunately, tens of thousands will die because they will listen to the German Pope

This man belongs in the 9th century, not the 21st. What an ignorant thing to say about condoms! Why is he against condoms? Is it because pedophile priests don't like using them when they molest children?

[AwakeAtLast]

41. Martin Luther is one of my heroes

I am grateful he was able to see through the bullshit so many years ago. Mind you, I also have a lot of respect for people who are Catholic - many lovely people. It's too bad their leaders are so screwed up. :(

[Grandrose]

42. Just what Africa needs.....NOT!!!

Poverty, war and sickness(HIV/Aids epedemic)...and the Pope is concerned about sexual abstinence???
Please leave Africa ALONE!!! :cry:

[fjc]

43. That's about the funniest headline I've seen in a long time!

[MichiganVote]

44. Guess he better leave his at home then.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

45. He's going bareback?

Dude! Party On!

[LynnTheDem]

46. Yes, coz AIDS is such a great thing!!1!

You are MURDERING people, pope. Including newborns.

You stupid MFing rightwingnut asshole.

[unkachuck]

47. hey Nazi Pope.....

'...he said distribution of condoms "increases the problem".'

....seriously, you're joking, right? What are you trying to do, get people dead? It seems every time you travel you have to stir up some shit....you're a disgrace to the Popehood.

[elleng]

48. Well that's just fine;

we won't force him to use one when he's in Africa.

[llmart]

49. There are so many funny comments on this thread.....

Thanks for making me laugh! The headline itself is a knee-slapper.

I am so glad I wasn't raised Catholic (or any religion, for that matter). How do people reconcile their lives with what the pope preaches? I just can't fathom a thinking, adult human being not questioning some of the crapola they spew.

[and-justice-for-all]

50. Of course he does...the fucking idiot...

just another good reason to never listen to those religious morons!

[roody]

51. Fuck the fucking pope.

Today I was sure to wear no green and when indoctrinated, dumbed-down kids asked me why or threatened to pinch me, I said, "I am not a Catholic."