{"id":622,"date":"2009-03-17T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/03\/17\/pope-says-condoms-not-the-answer-in-fight-against-aids\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:37:00","slug":"pope-says-condoms-not-the-answer-in-fight-against-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/03\/17\/pope-says-condoms-not-the-answer-in-fight-against-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope says condoms not the answer in fight against AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the story go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/17\/AR2009031700386.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/7947460.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI has said that handing out condoms is not the answer in the fight against HIV\/Aids, as he makes his first visit to Africa as pontiff.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking en route to Cameroon, he said distribution of condoms &#8220;increases the problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I previously posted on this topic <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Condoms%20Catholics%20and%20HIV\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is one area where we can say, more or less without qualification, that religion is dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the story go here and here. Pope Benedict XVI has said that handing out condoms is not the answer in the fight against HIV\/Aids, as he makes his first visit to Africa as pontiff. Speaking en route to Cameroon, he said distribution of condoms &#8220;increases the problem&#8221;. I previously posted on this topic here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,71,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condoms-catholics-and-hiv","category-is-religion-dangerous","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}