Cardinal Alfonso Trujillo is an evil fucking bastard!

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WHO slams cardinal condom claim
From correspondents in Vatican City
October 11, 2003

THE UN health agency is strongly contesting the reported claim of a top Vatican cardinal that condoms don't properly protect against AIDS - a view that anti-HIV campaigners deny strongly.

The Vatican has repeatedly opposed condoms as a way to fight AIDS, saying chastity is the best way to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. The Vatican has been criticised for its opposition, particularly in poor regions of the world devastated by AIDS.

The latest difference arose after Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, told the BBC the HIV virus is small enough to pass through a condom.

The BBC released a partial transcript of his comments, some of which will be broadcast today in a documentary called Panorama - Sex and the Holy City.

"The AIDS virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon. The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom," Lopez Trujillo is quoted as saying in the BBC interview late last month.

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Public health officials universally recommend condoms as an effective barrier to the AIDS virus, and medical science has repeatedly shown them to be effective.

Spreading misinformation like this is morally equivalent to genocide, when you consider its likely effect in such AIDS-ravaged places such as Africa and Thailand.

Continuing to cling to medieval dogma like this is just plain EVIL.

Even though I'm an atheist, I hope there's a hell, so that the church officials who continue to make themselves a public health menace can burn in it! :grr:
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