A reader writes:
Good news! The HIV infection rate in Zimbabwe has decreased – plummeted, even!
And it’s because of changing behaviour, not condom use! So, let’s hear it from the world’s media…
[crickets]
And, given that the population is well over 90% non-Catholic, the Scarlet Woman of Rome’s refusal to allow condoms was never an issue in the first place.
The whole “Pope kills millions of AIDS victims” thing is just so brainless. So some guy in Timbuctu is just about to commit his thousandth act of fornication and suddenly pauses, thinking, “But the Pope said not to use a condom!” So in holy deference to Mother Church, he commits fornication, but without a condom. I think that’s even dumber than “Married priests will cure homosexual assaults on children.”