"I was born Catholic, I was baptised, but in my life I feel profoundly secular. I find that the controversy coming from the pope's (anti-condom) message — albeit distorted by the media — is very damaging. In Africa it's often church people who look after sick people. It's astonishing to see the difference between the theory and the reality."
French first lady Carla Bruni rebuked Pope Benedict XVI for saying last March that condoms worsen Africa's AIDS problem. Bruni said that the church should evolve on the issue of contraception and protection. Historians say it's unprecedented for a first lady to criticize the pope in traditionally Catholic France.
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Good for her. Speak the truth, girl. The pope is merely a senile old man in Prada loafers, a dress and a funny hat. His "truth" is killing people and it's wrong. I'm all for believing whatever nonsense you want to believe as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. His nonsense hurts way too many people and that makes me mad.
1Good for her. I completely agree.
2Ditto.
3Remember, she is not dismissing his whole message or Catholicism...just what it can and can't do in the continent of Africa. She is being rational in her explanation.
4I agree; the Pope's statement could be extremely damaging in a country already dealing with a number of deaths from the disease. Condoms are necessary.
5Amen superjules. The Pope's discouragement of condom use is archaic (much like religious belief in general) and unrealistic to the actual sexual practices of human beings. It's abstinence based in a species that biologically rejects abstinence and only serves to accelerate the transmission of HIV/AIDS in a continent already suffering from dramatically high rates of infection.
It's astonishing that a figure that is supposed to be the model for compassion in a religion with millions of worldwide followers discourages the use of a tool that prevents transmission of a deadly, incurable disease that not only mortally affects affected sexual partners but the children that would result from the church-sanctioned omission of condom use.
6I agree, good for her.
7Yeah she said it right
8I think she did a nice job of criticizing the policy and not the person.
9i wish more people would speak up as intelligently as she did
10She is right. I assume the pope was making some sort of argument, as if condoms will promote more sex and thus more aids? Or perhaps if no condoms are available people won't have sex? Wrong. They'll have sex anyway. His policy is useless. His message is lost in the face of reality. Pass those things out for Gods sake.
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