Catholics Called On To Challenge Church's AIDs Claims

The Vatican has recently decreed that condoms do nothing valuable to stop the spread of AIDs - as if a statement by a religious organization could substitute for scientific evidence. At any rate, individual Catholics are being called upon to challenge local priests about this.

The Scotsman reports:

Nothing less than a grassroots Catholic rebellion is needed to counter the “misleading and dangerous” claims, according to Liberal Democrat Euro-MP Chris Davies. His call came as fellow Euro-MPs tabled a motion in the European Parliament urging EU governments to denounce the claims as unacceptable. "Catholics everywhere should be asking their local priests whether it is right that the church should lie and put millions at risk of death in order to promote its moral beliefs." [he said]

The World Health Organization has labeled the comments of senior Vatican spokesman Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo as "dangerous," and rightly so. The Vatican's stance here seems to be about as sound scientifically as that adopted by creationists organizations - another example of religious people denying science in order to facilitate adherence to their religious dogmas. The denial of science, however, never ultimately succeeds.

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