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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (227816)4/5/2005 10:46:52 AM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (1) of 1576178
 
tejek,

re:You're assuming that all sex is outside the sanctity of marriage. In fact, you've already passed judgement. What about the innocent wives who are exposed to AIDS and the innocent babies to be born with AIDS? And why is the pill a sin? Are married people in Africa or South America not allowed to have sex without the fear of conceiving a child they can not afford?


Outside marriage and innocent wives in this context imply someone had sex outside marriage - how does the pill prevent AIDS? Another tejek nonsequeter.

You are simply unwilling to even for a moment consider their beliefs before you pass judgement. They believe that God says birth control is forbidden - because it prevents life. On this point there is little argument, condoms do in fact prevent new life.

As for AIDS and disease prevention, this is another issue entirely. No one is condeming anyone to death, if you could simply understand that the church has also said sex outside marriage is a sin - if that advice were followed they would not have the continued rampant spread of AIDS. Even if the church adopted/supported wide spread condom use - there is little likelyhood the culture of the people of african nations would use condoms. I noticed in the article that within the church they have attempted to use the lesser sin argument, that adultery is sin 6 but murder is the 5th in the 10 commandments.

re:They also know that most Africans can not afford the AIDS medicine that will extend their lives

Nice straw man - it's prevention, not medication after the fact that is the issue. Prevention is not economically out of reach even for Africans. Even in the USA most Catholics ignore the Churches position on condom use for contraception, so using condoms for health protection should be even less of an issue for most believers.
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