good catholicss use condoms!
Linked with Maria José Rosado Nune /Sister Zecas – Brazil, with Catholics for a free choice, and with Religious Ideology and Social Control: Abortion and the Catholic Church.
Condoms4Life is an unprecedented worldwide public education effort to raise public awareness about the devastating effect of the bishops’ ban on condoms. The campaign was launched on World AIDS Day 2001 with the display of billboards and ads in subways and newspapers saying, “Banning Condoms Kills.”
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About: The advertising campaign in the US, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, Chile and Zimbabwe, was the first phase of an effort to change the Vatican’s policy and challenge its aggressive lobbying against availability and access to condoms in areas of the world most at risk. The ads point out that many of the 4,000 plus bishops lobby governments and the United Nations to restrict access to condoms claiming that condoms cause AIDS, not prevent it.
For World AIDS Day 2002, the campaign emphasized positive progress in the church and Bishop Kevin Dowling received hundreds of postcards from Condoms4Life supporters thanking him for his courage in opposing the church’s ban on condoms.
In 2003, in response to the inaccurate and irresponsible claims by a Vatican official that condoms do not prevent HIV transmission, the campaign urged Catholics, especially young people, to use condoms as part of a mature, responsible sexuality.
The campaign is sponsored by Catholics for a Free Choice, its partners in Europe and Latin America and colleagues in Africa and Asia.
The Condoms4Life web site contains facts on HIV/AIDS and on Catholic hierarchy’s opposition to condoms around the world.