The Poodle is right on this one and the Vatican needs to catch up with the modern world. It will be interesting to see if the Vatican manages to pass the American religious right who still hold on to their abstinence program and prefer staying in the dark ages.
In a pointed criticism of the Vatican's stance on contraception, Mr Blair used a television interview on World Aids Day to insist that preaching abstinence was not enough. Speaking to MTV, Mr Blair said: "The danger is if we have a sort of blanket ban from religious hierarchy saying it's wrong to do it, then you discourage people from doing it in circumstances where they need to protect their lives."
