http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/opinion/10KRIS.html?ex=1043344651&ei=1&en=8dae241771f3d095 Christian right showing how scary their influence they have by trying to stop the use of condoms.
I'm personally against Condoms, too...but not for the same reasons This garbage is nothing new. It's the "condoms are the reason kids have sex in the first place" arguement. And clean needle programs promote heroin use. Religious fundementalists (it's not just christians)and bedroom facists should go back to fighting the real cause of all these problems... that Negro Jazz music...
How are you guys tying government/Republicans/GWB into the condom debate? I've read that article like 12 times and have yet to see one policy initiative in there that stops you clowns from buying a condom. Go out and buy all the condoms you want and have all the sex you want, just don't expect to get free condoms from the American taxpayer. This is really not rocket science. What do you really care if the Christian Right is against condom use if it doesn't affect you? It's not like they're going to get condoms banned. Sounds to me like you don't know why you're upset with this article other than the fact that people can't get free condoms to act like rabbits at US taxpayer expense.
The problem is, Ian, is that the Bush administration wants to stop the use of condoms, or the promotion of its use, to prevent pregnacy and HIV both at home and abroad. That is a pretty dangerous policy.
Sorry Ian, but I agree with the Dems on this one. We should flood high AIDS areas with condoms. By the way, this is not a question of jim hats as it is of education. Honest sex ed, not abstinence only.
"Yet the U.S. is now donating only 300 million condoms annually, down from about 800 million at the end of the first President Bush's term." I found this part interesting, I wonder how much it decreased under Clinton. I for one am glad that my tax dollars aren't being wasted on my government giving away 800 million condoms. I'd rather see that money being put towards education or some other programs that affects us here in the US.
I began to get e-mails from evangelical Christians insisting that condoms have pores about 10 microns in diameter, while the AIDS virus measures only about 0.1 micron. This is junk science (electron microscopes haven't found these pores), but the disinformation campaign turns out to be a far-reaching effort to discredit condoms, squelch any mention of them in schools and discourage their use abroad. It's hard not to be bothered these groups are intentionally spreading false information in schools and brochures. It's analogous to removing mentions of seat belts from all safety manuals and condemning seat belt use in driver's ed classes, because you know, they won't save you every time.
Why the hell is the govt. buying rubbers? They're a freaking buck, gee, if you're going to have sex and can't spring for the rubber, why should I have any pity if you get AIDS/herpes/etc. or are a part of an unwanted pregnency?
If he has a latex allergy, he should try the polyurethane kind. They have the added benefit of not smelling like a freaking burning tire, meaning your girl will be happy to go down on you after intercourse. Alex
I think the larger issues here are the disinformation campaign and removing mentions of condoms from sex ed, not the reduction in condom hand outs.