I know everyone is probably tired of hearing about the pope. One of my biggest beefs with this pope was his failure to deal in a rational way with the issue of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. It has nothing to do with birth control. It is about saving lives.
So, today, there is a long story in the New York Times about picking the new pope. What struck me most was this passage:
A reporter asked Cardinal Francis George of Chicago in a news conference last week whether the church would consider approving the use of condoms to prevent AIDS in places like Africa.Are you fucking kidding me? Does Cardinal Francis George not understand that condoms save lives? NOT using the condoms is CAUSING the extermination of the poor around the world. His line of thinking is so contrary to what most of the humans in the world would consider moral, it is beyond comprehension.
"Your solution is to exterminate the poor?" he said, referring to the births that contraception would prevent. "The doctrine of the church isn't going to change, and so you work with it as best as you can."
By the way, Cardinal, the doctrine of the church is man-made and it CAN be changed.
