Is Vatican wrong refusing to change  it's condom ban, even when one partner in a married couple has aids?
612714
yes, very wrong. a church-institute who forbids their members to protect themselves against a deadly disease is antisocial and very unchristian i think.
461358
I'm a Christian, but I'd be that Christianity declares that about 90% of sex is sinful.  I can't see how it was a sin to sleep with my wife a few months before we were going to get married anyway...Sex is not a dirty little act that should be shunned by everyone...but the church thinks so.
800013
Oral sex is always wrong for two reasons:\n\nIt is use of the Sexual gift outside of the Marriage union.\n\nIt is a sexual act that intentionally does not have the possibility of new life.\n\nNormal intercourse (without contraception) would only be the use of the sexual gift outside of Marriage.
591330
No, they think of the business. Even condoms aren't 100% effective, as you can still get AIDS/HIV through open cuts, semen/vaginal fluid, etc.
783726
Sex is moral as long as it is between a husband and wife. Doesn't anyone take God's word for anything? God made a man and a woman to be together  as husband and wife. To share with no one else. To reproduce. That is his plan. But way too many don't keep their vows and way too many kids and adults are experimenting with different partners of same sex and opposite sex, and then everyone wants to know why God has let them catch a venereal disease or aids or countless other things that come from sleeping around. His law was simple. Thou shalt not commit adultery. And this applies to people who aren't even married.
300004
No.  First of all it's impossible to catch AIDS.  It is a syndrome caused by the HIV virus.  But anyway, if neither partner has the virus it cannot be transmitted.  But just to be safe, use a condom.
1043404
It is not so much misunderstanding as opposed to following the Bible.\n\n"Now for those who are not married and for the widows I say this: It is good for them to stay unmarried as I am.  But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry. It is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire."\n\nLet's face it, if you have to seek sex with boys, I think the priests cannot control themselves.
313169
If your talking broadly, Africa is the #1 leading country with AIDS/HIV. As far as locally, anywhere. That's the scary thing about today. Any one could look squeaky clean on the outside and be infested on the inside. That's why protection, manogamy, and abstinence are so highly suggested.
712947
He is wrong. The Catholic church allows remarriage only if the spouses get an annulment. He can remarry if he gets one. Premarital sex is not ok. He is feeding you a line of bull. Tell him to go read his catechism again. The Church does not approve of any premarital sex and will never approve it.
1042565
I am immoral and look down on no one, raised a catholic but rejected religion dince age five, proud indepent and free thinking person, not sure about the chicken egg, but the pill and oral sex are grounds for excommunication and only whores going to hell like myself do that, you may only have sex with your hudband and only for the purpose of reproduction for it to not be a sion, so there are alot of frikkin hypocrites who need to be excommunicated or find a new religion cause their god and pope do not approve and reject them,condoms are a sin since you must be trying to reproduce ,
1061968
condoms aren't just about hiv/aids + stability... they're more about making sure neither of you end up in a messy situation, namely, early/unexpected pregnancy. u really want the hassle of a kid right now?
565360
The best solution to this problem is having a screening test done before marriage, which is now practiced in most of the countries by almost all the people.\n\nDoctors advice condoms immediately after marriage for two reasons\n1. it helps in avoiding children, if the couple doesn't need them immediately\n2. even though the screening test which is done before marriage is negative,  for a person to be ruled out from HIV infection, another test should be negative which is done after 6 months from the first test.(off course some advanced and costly tests can detect it even earlier)\n3. the problem u suggested that a woman or a man cannot suggest his/ her partner to wear a condom, as the others feel  bad about it is always there, but it should be overcome by mutual understanding and discussion.\n\nhope this helps...............
238013
Aids does get the most research money, and has for several years.  The reason for this is the death rate involved and the transmission of the disease.  While more people die from cancer, it is usually later in life and is not contagious.  This research money has little effect on gay marriage though, so that is a pointless argument.  If anything married gays would be less likely to pass the AIDS virus on to multiple partners, so use Sowells own argument against him.
123972
I think both are extremely wrong.\nPre-marital sex and Adultery is one of the reasons why we have AIDS and HIV rampant all over the world. \nOnce a person has premartial sex, he or she starts the ball rolling, and many move on to Adultery.\nWhy?\nAfter having sex with different people, some even with strangers, will he or she appreciate his or her loved one's body? Will the temptation of no strings sex lure them into having an affair?\nThere has to be something sacred in marriage and in a person's body and that's his and her virginity. This may sound antiquated but would you, want your boyfriend and girlfriend to have had sex with 10 people and marry them? \n\nWould you appreciate this person more if you knew he or she fought of temptation EVEN BEFORE they met you because they are governed with such strong belief and respect for their future spouse, in all seriousness, they knew the marriage up ahead would be no joke, a lifelong commitment where both would share mind, body and soul?\n\nThis is not to say it should be a law where pre-marital sex is forbidden, but it should be a personal choice made, to have self-discipline and self-control, not to let loose like a crazed animal in heat.\nAll this gives rise to disgusting sexual conduct like bestiality and so on, because no one appreciates, or respects sex as a sacred act between two, married, committed people.\nIt's not a game, it's not something you can play with.\n\nThat's why our world is full of horrible pornography where women are humped and co-erced into sex, treated like animals by the men.\nIt's disgusting. And before someone tells me, how would you know the person's sexual preferences before meeting them, or he or she has the right to do that because they are two consenting individuals - \n1. You wouldn't know your own sexual preferences if you hadn't had sex. That's why marriage is so wonderful, two loving, innocent people can explore each other legitimately and their sex lives and preferences evolve together as they live their lives together.\n2. It's true. Two consenting adults, go ahead, do it. However, wouldn't the two of them appreciate each other's deeds and thoughts of them? Wouldn't they know how commited and how thought out the person's beliefs were because this was already thought out before they met each other?\nCan a man feel comfortable hearing about his wife's ex-boyfriends? He prefers not to hear it and pretends it doesn't exist because he can't look at his lady knowing she has been with another man! And a woman, can she accept that her boyfriend or husband is a cassonova in his days of youth, can she absolutely say she knows he won't go out where his lust leads him? Temptation is all around, look at the amount of sexually permissive people around the community, the world, even, and say you're sure. Would you love him better knowing he has saved himself for the ONLY woman he'll ever have sex with, knowing how sexually active men are? This deed itself presents so much to appreciate and love in your man.
550043
Not sure I understand this question. But, here goes.\n\nIf both partners are exclusive and both partners tested negative for HIV/AIDS, then they should never be infected with the disease through exclusive sexual contact. \n\nBut you can get HIV/AIDS in other ways. So if one partner is a Health Care professional and is stuck with a sharp that is infected, then he or she could contract HIV/AIDS.
1064525
I would not think would be a correct generality.  Africa has the worse cases of widespread Aids in the world.  \n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/africa/2000/aids_in_africa/default.stm\n\nhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1201/p06s01-woaf.html\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4052531.stm\n\nMost of this is contributed to sexual relations outside of marriage and with many partners.   (And that does not sound like "good moral values, to me)\n\nI think you can find kind, moral, polite, responsible men in any country and within any race... you just have to demand it and not take less.
452978
Problem is deeper. It's a Phylosofical problem (usually are not practic). Condom is not the problem, but behavior is.\n\nYou are not allowed to do sex before marriage. \nOnce married you are not allowed to have sex relations with other person. \nAnd MOST important of all: When you do sex, you do to have children and not to have pleasure. After 60's Pope told that having pleasure during the sex is not sin. ... since you are respecting all rules above. \n\nThese are main rules and as a Catholic, you cannot avoid it. If Catholic church allow to use condom, it means that they allow to do those wrong things too. \n\nIt's just a matter of Ethics and cause and consequence about rules. Religion cannot be flexible as moral is. Change this concept means change part of what has been teach during so long time .... and it has consequences.