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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: O.R. protest against homosexuals on CSPAN
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:59:39 GMT
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- forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
-
- >From article by mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price):
- >> In forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >>
- >>>A death months or years after diagnosis, with the opportunity for
- >>>rethinking one's life and turning to Christ that that time allows,
- >>>is definintely far more merciful than a sudden quick death without
- >>>the opportunity to set one's house in order.
- >>
- >>>We're all gonna die some day. The only difference between an
- >>>AIDS patient and a non-AIDS patient is that the AIDS patient must
- >>>confront his/her mortality, while the rest of us may foolishly
- >>>ignore ours at our own peril.
- >>
- >> Ohh, I see! It is Christian to _support_ the spread of AIDS. I'm
- >> finally beginning to understand the Pope's attitude to condoms.
-
- >Don't be ridiculous. If everyone lived by what the Pope taught, AIDS
- >would never have happened. If everyone started tomorrow living by
- >what the Pope teaches, AIDS would be stopped cold.
-
- Ignoring the other forms of (accidental) transmission. Frankly, I don't
- think it would be possible to get a society of millions of people to live
- by what the Pope teaches, especially in a "free" society like the US.
- (And especially with the way he tries to tell people how they ought to feel.)
-
- >Abstinence or life long monogamy work. Condoms do not. (Condoms
- >don't even do what they were designed to do - prevent pregnancy.)
-
- She finally says something accurate and reasonable! True, condoms have a
- failure rate of about 3% EVEN IF USED CORRECTLY. (at least that was the
- figure when I was in high school) Neither is any other ("fun") form of
- contraception *perfect*. Even so, you will not stop people from having
- sex, and you can't stop all of them from getting pregnant, and not all of
- the ones that *do* would be able to handle the responsibility--that's why
- they were using contraception in the first place. And that's why abortion
- was invented, silly.
-
- >S. Forgach
-
- -Rob
-