The Vatican is considering relaxing its ban on condom use for married couples where one partner has HIV/AIDS.
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan told La Repubblica newspaper that Pope Benedict XVI asked the Vatican’s council for health care to study the issue.
The Vatican says abstinence is the best way to tackle HIV/Aids.
But last week, a retired archbishop backed the use of condoms for married couples to prevent Aids transmission.
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who used to be Archbishop of Milan, said that in couples where one partner had HIV/Aids, the use of condoms was “a lesser evil”.
Wow, that’s incredibly enlightened of him. A “lesser evil”? Exactly how is it evil for one partner in a marriage to avoid giving a life-threatening illness to the other partner?
I still haven’t figured out how it’s evil to use condoms to avoid unwanted pregnancies and any type of sexually transmitted disease, but that’s just me.
Geez Louise, Kathy, get on board with the culture of life already.
Yeah, Del:
“Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.”
Sperm isn’t a problem for me, but a defective delivery system is really a ROYAL FUNK.
Hah!! I bet you thought I was gonna say something else, didn’t ya’?
Careful, Don — you might get me kicked off the Bama Bloggers list. They’re strictly PG.