{"id":38,"date":"2003-10-10T00:47:39","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T04:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/more_catholic_sex_problems\/"},"modified":"2003-10-10T00:47:39","modified_gmt":"2003-10-10T04:47:39","slug":"more_catholic_sex_problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/more_catholic_sex_problems\/","title":{"rendered":"More Catholic Sex Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as the stench from the priest scandals lingers, word comes of another Catholic sex-related outrage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass – potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.
\nThe church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to the HIV virus.
\nA senior Vatican spokesman backs the claims about permeable condoms, despite assurances by the World Health Organisation that they are untrue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I understand the church’s opposition to birth control, but can’t they promote that belief on moral grounds. Do they need to make dubious scientific claims?<\/p>\n

The [World Health] organisation says “consistent and correct” condom use reduces the risk of HIV infection by 90%. There may be breakage or slippage of condoms – but not, the WHO says, holes through which the virus can pass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In some African areas as many as 20% of the people have the HIV virus, and unprotected sex can be deadly. Therefore, can’t the church at least be scientifically honest and not offer counsel which may unnecessarily risk human life?
\nVia Lean Left<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even as the stench from the priest scandals lingers, word comes of another Catholic sex-related outrage: The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass – potentially exposing thousands of people to risk. The church […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}