Catholic Bishops call for the firing of Philippine health secretary for passing out condoms

[moobu2]

To help prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS because they're right-to-life and all :sarcasm:. Creeps.

MANILA — Catholic bishops in the Philippines on Tuesday called for the health secretary to be sacked as they sought to escalate a row over the government's promotion of condoms.
The sensitive birth-control issue in the Roman Catholic nation flared last week after Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral led a campaign to hand out free condoms on Valentine's Day as part of the battle against HIV and AIDS.
"It's so immoral for someone in the government to be pushing the use of condoms, which we all know is not deterrent to AIDS prevention," Bishop Ramon Arguelles, of the Lipa diocese south of Manila, said in a church statement.
The Catholic Church forbids artificial birth control, including condoms.
The statement, signed by two other bishops, was posted on the website of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, an organisation grouping the Southeast Asian nation's church leaders.
The statement urged President Gloria Arroyo to dismiss Cabral, saying she should not be allowed to influence the nation's young.
"It's worrying because it is the morality in society, especially among the youth, that is at stake," Arguelles said.

LiNk

[benld74]

1. yada yada yada bla bla bla STAY OUT OF GOVMINT!

[YOY]

2. +1

n/t

[napi21]

3. As a Catholic, I resent the Bishops interfering with the gov't!

I realize the Church disagrees with all forms of BC and reproduction , but any strong Catholics in the Phillipines won't get a condom, and any others shouldn't matter to the Church!

[DeSwiss]

4. "It's worrying because it is the morality in society, especially among the youth, that is at stake,"

Now it's funny that you mention that. Because that morality business never stopped you fuckers your priests from diddling little children.

- Now did it asshole, sir???

[era veteran]

5. Would they get mad if Muslim citizens were getting condoms?

Superstition is fucking up a lot of things. " not a deterrent to AIDS " What is a deterrent? prayer?

[CanonRay]

6. Someday, the Catholic Church will realize

it's no longer the 12th Century. Maybe.

[damntexdem]

7. Well, I call for the firing of Catholic bishops for passing out idiocy, ...

not to mention for the horrible damage they do to the countries they infest with that idiocy.

[chaplainM]

8. Wait, what?

"It's so immoral for someone in the government to be pushing the use of condoms, which we all know is not deterrent to AIDS prevention," Bishop Ramon Arguelles, of the Lipa diocese south of Manila, said in a church statement.


Why would you want to deter AIDS prevention? Wouldn't you want to promote it?

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Faulty logic

on the condom failure rate. Just because it is not 100% does not mean it is zero like the bishops are assuming :crazy:. 95-99% effective is still a huge improvement. This is one dogma which is widely ignored and way out of date.

[laconicsax]

12. More logical than some of the other doctrine. n/t

[Odin2005]

10. More evil from that evil racket called the RCC.

[laconicsax]

11. I'm surprised they took the time from their busy schedule of ignoring child rape

to promote the spread of disease.