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From: TimF	6/19/2008 8:44:53 PM
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Aids, Condoms and Africa Regarding my post, The African Cliff, a number of readers wrote to me about the Catholic Church's anti-condom teachings (and apparently in some cases mis/disinformation campaigns). I have three reasons for thinking that Catholic teaching on condoms, whatever you might think of the substantive issue, is not a major factor in the African Aids crisis. First, Catholics in the US don't seem to find it difficult to ignore the Church's teachings when these are costly. Second, many African countries with high Aids rates have few Catholics. (Compare the countries in yesterday's graph with this map of Catholic membership in Africa.) Third, couples who do not use condoms but follow Catholic teaching in regards to monogamous marriage are unlikely to contribute much to the Aids problem. It seems inconsistent, moreover, to assume that religion is strong enough to prevent men from using condoms but not strong enough to stop them from sleeping with multiple partners. Does the man having sex with a prostitute feel less guilty because he isn't wearing a condom?... marginalrevolution.com

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