I think I’m going to really bake your noodle with this one, but I remember Pope Benedict XVI actually saying that condom usage in some situations could be a moral good.
Consider this: 2 men, both homosexual, one has HIV and the other does not. If they are going to have sex, the man with HIV has a moral responsibility to protect his partner from getting the disease, and should therefore use a condom. And I know that condoms aren’t 100%, I used to work with HIV and STD patients, but trust me, they’re better than nothing.
Now, I don’t know what Benedict’s actual quote was, and I haven’t looked it up, but that’s pretty much the gist of it. Personally, I don’t feel that using a condom for sex between homosexual men is an issue because the only thing they’re potentially contracepting is a disease. Consider murder. If you murder someone, does it make the murder more sinful if you cut off one of your victim’s toes? They’re already dead, so the total damage that can be done has been. Two men can’t create life, so they’re not trying to circumvent the process.
