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#1 11-21-10 7:57 am

Old Abe
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Registered: 01-18-10
Posts: 106

Vatican and the use of condoms

In our local press there was a report that the current Pope has decreed that the use of condoms by male prostitutes is okay now as it is a health issue.

Still banned for hetros of course as it is a sin to use contraception.

This can be read several ways: that it is okay to protect the life of a male but not a female; that male prostitution is not sinful or less sinful than limiting the size of ones family.

Seems we have a real disconnect about right and wrong these days.

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#2 11-22-10 12:00 pm

elaine
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Registered: 12-28-08
Posts: 1,391

Re: Vatican and the use of condoms

What should we expect from the Pope?  They are guided by medieval customs, with a small attempt to counter modernism.  Who listens to him, anyway?  The majority of Catholics practice contraception and have for years.  If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears....

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