Teh interesting (non-PHL-related) news stub thread

[Twin-Skies]

Didn't say that the girl was excommunicated, but rather everyone involved in performing/initiating the abortion. She's still under invincible ignorance anyway.

Yeah, WTF indeed.

Guess the RCC felt the scandal needed a good finale:

Pope: Condoms not the answer in AIDS fight
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29734328

YAOUNDE, Cameroon - Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against HIV, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent. It was the pope's first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.

Benedict arrived in Yaounde, Cameroon's capital, on Tuesday afternoon, greeted by a crowd of flag-waving faithful and snapping cameras. The visit is his first pilgrimage as pontiff to Africa.

In his four years as pope, Benedict had never directly addressed condom use, although his position is not new. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, often said that sexual abstinence — not condoms — was the best way to prevent the spread of the disease.

Benedict also said the Roman Catholic Church was at the forefront of the battle against AIDS.

"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane heading to Yaounde. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

The pope said a responsible and moral attitude toward sex would help fight the disease.

The Roman Catholic Church rejects the use of condoms as part of its overall teaching against artificial contraception. Senior Vatican officials have advocated fidelity in marriage and abstinence from premarital sex as key weapons in the fight against AIDS.

Ahh yes, abstinence and marriage...the RCC is indeed the the last word when it comes to curbing our carnal desires!

Study Casts Doubt on Abstinence-Only Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01003.html

Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16...MP=OTC-rss

Or not.