What?
I’m pretty sure they are wrong. CAFOD is certainly not an official agency of the Church in England and Wales. Please, could you confirm it?In other words they say that it is OK to tell people that one thing that they can do is to use condoms as long as they don’t distribute them. That’s outrageous from an organization that claims to be Catholic! What’s next, are they going to support doctors telling people about abortions while refraining from offering any services so they can “stay Catholic”?
Yes, I agree. I’m not saying that you should lie about condoms. That is certainly wrong. I have an issue with the fact that they are ok with educating people about condoms. As Catholics they shouldn’t give people this option. Using condoms is immoral.
Why should Catholics fear any truthful information? I would hope a Catholic group would also explain our whole teaching on marriage and sexuality when and where that is appropriate, giving the proper context for that information.
That’s not the issue as I said in the last post. The issue is that you don’t give people options that are immoral. We are all bind by same morality and suggesting immoral choices to others is wrong.You don’t tell a girl that is struggling with pregnancy that she can a) have an abortion or b) find a pregnancy counselor. And that is even if you tell them that abortion is wrong. A) is simply not an option for anyone and thus we it is wrong to offer it to other people (whether they agree or not).
Providing full and accurate information is not suggesting that all choices are morally equal. There is plenty of inaccurate information around, and some of that is provided intentionally by the people who will then tell you that all choices are equal or morally irrelevant.
No, it’s not. If someone asks me whether condoms slower the spread of HIV I will say yes.
Sure, and that is wrong. But you miss my point. If someone asks about what he can do to prevent AIDS, you shouldn’t tell him that one option is to use condoms (even thought you tell him that he should go for the “better” choices or something like that). Use of condoms is simply never an option and it should NEVER be presented as such. You don’t include assassination as an option when people want to know how to get rid of a bad high school teacher.
The incorrect information they are often given have nothing to do with morality but rational decision that excludes every moral decision.
Yes, but the truth is that using condoms is morally wrong. If you want to tell people this then that’s great. But presenting condoms as one of the options for combating AIDS is wrong.
See, but I’m have nothing against truth. I never said we should lie, mystify or whatever else.
You fall into the small minority. But even if that were true you will not win the war by making people stop using condoms because they are “not good enough”. The war will be won when people will stop using them because using them is evil.
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That’s what I’m saying.
