A Condom Heretic on the Pope, Africa, and AIDS

"Yet, in truth, current empirical evidence supports him," says Dr. Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies — The Pope May Be Right. An excerpt:

We liberals who work in the fields of global HIV/AIDS and family planning take terrible professional risks if we side with the pope on a divisive topic such as this. The condom has become a symbol of freedom and -- along with contraception -- female emancipation, so those who question condom orthodoxy are accused of being against these causes.

Dr. Green says that "what has worked in Africa" is, "in plain language, faithful mutual monogamy or at least reduction in numbers of partners, especially concurrent ones." Said the Vicar of Christ, "The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids" — Pope rejects condoms for Africa.

[link via Crunchy Con]