Monday, December 05, 2005

Penetrating Logic

Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury is an ambassador for UNICEF and the U.N. anti-AIDS program. The Vatican has decided to drop her from its Christmas fund raising concert, because she planned to advocate the use of condoms to fight AIDS during her performance at the show.

The World Health Organisation has estimated that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981. This makes Avian Flu look like the sniffles. So far, in 2005 alone, AIDS has claimed an estimated 3.1 million (between 2.8 and 3.6 million) of which more than half a million (570,000) were children.

Fact is: something as simple and inexpensive as a male latex condom is the single most effective method to prevent the transmission of HIV. And they make for great water bombs, too.

Speaking at a news conference, event organizer Father Giuseppe Bellucci stated that "She was excluded because she had announced that at the concert she would openly promote the use of condoms to fight the plague of AIDS."

No, I don’t understand either. Given a choice between a raincoat for your rod, and the slow and painful depletion of your immune system, is it really so difficult to work out which is the lesser evil?

3 comments:

Jennifer said...

so frustrating. And what DOES the Vatican propose to stop the spread of AIDS? Abstinence? Celibacy? Monogamy? A combination thereof?

Anonymous said...

Whilst merrily dismissing safe sex and family planning, the new Pope is also abolishing the concept of Limbo - the abode of unbaptised innocents - and has stopped short of saying they go to heaven. So, no comfort to be had.

Do you get the impression the Vatican doesn't like children? (Or people in general?)

Next Holiday Season: "The Pope Who Stole Christmas"

Anonymous said...

Too depressing for words