While I read about this on the AP last night, I thought this pic by tigtog (click the photo) was a brilliant portrayal of how I feel about it.
While the Church is busy pushing its dangerous and disgusting Ab-only agenda, magically believing that somehow teaching victims of systemic rape is going to protect them from HIV/AIDS transmitted to them by their infidel husbands, people are dying.
It is indeed magical and wishful thinking, far beyond that of any “magical pregnancy movie”, that teaching Abstinence to people who are virtually helpless to stop the atrocities being inflicted upon them is going to do anything to change the situation.
Women who are being raped constantly in Africa don’t need Abstinence teaching. Many of them are nothing but faithful to husbands to choose to sleep around, spreading this disease everywhere they turn, and bringing it home to wives, and forcing sex upon them too. Men who have sex aren’t simply going to stop b/c the Church tells them to. But possibly, if we can educate them on how to protect their lives w/ contraception, they might pay attention.
Condoms, while not perfect, are an effective barrier against the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Pope, his Church, and their ilk would do well to think about that if they were ever interested in life.
But they aren’t.
Which is obvious when they chose to and vehemently defended the decision to excommunicate the doctors and families of a nine year old girl in Brazil who was raped b/c she received a life saving abortion. Saying that “life must always be protected”, even when it was plain that carrying the pregnancy would have killed her and the twins she was carrying. Yeah, Pro-life my ass.
It’s obvious that only some bodies matter.
And rape victims in Africa, and a young rape victim in Brazil are not those bodies. They aren’t filling the coffers of the Vatican.
While not all Catholics are not blind and ignorant of real life and hardly support this nightmare of a policy of pushing Abstinence on people that certainly need education on protection and barrier methods, this Pope is nothing more that a hate mongering douche nozzle. He is so far detached from the needs of the real world that he hasn’t clue one about what affects devout Catholics world wide.
Push your precious doctrine, Pope ol’ boy, but don’t pretend that you are in any way innocent of those deaths, or that you are in any way helping.
You self righteous ass hole.
amen.