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Interesting question: has the Church taken a position on the use of condoms by same sex couples?
Of course , the Church teaches that sex between same sex couples is wrong in any case, but does the use of a condom increase the gravity of the sin or stand as a separate sin in itself?
For heterosexual couples, a condom frustrates the procreative act but that analysis doesn’t apply to same sex couples, whose activity is non-procreative in any case.
Seems to me as if the NIH thinks that only foreign born gay men who can read “Spanish” are at risk….that would not seem to be a demographic that is politically promotable; or else there would appear to be callous disregard for the lives of non-Spanish reading foreign born gay men.
To jhayes – Didn’t Pope BenedictXVI make a statement on the use of condoms by homosexual men during an interview on a flight to Africa ?
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20101221_luce-del-mondo_en.html
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2010/11/23/condoms-may-be-first-step-in-moralisation-of-sexuality-says-pope/
http://catholicism.about.com/b/2010/11/23/pope-benedict-and-condoms-what-he-did-and-did-not-say.htm
jhayes: That sounds like a persuasive analysis to me. How could a condom make that particular sin any worse?
PnKn, thanks for he links. I’ll read the artivcles when I get home.
It seems to have become an important issue since AIDS has become a readily treatable disease. From what I’ve read, cases have risen as people are now less likely to take the precautions (condoms, etc) they did when AIDS was a death sentence,
Fornication is a mortal sin.
Adultery is a mortal sin.
Homosexual behavior is a mortal sin.
A mortal sin is mortal sin. One goes to hell when knowingly committing a mortal sin. One loses sanctifying grace. The use or non-use of condoms in these cases is immaterial.
What a stupid colossal waste of money. The CDC, Scientific community, indeed almost everyone in healthcare is aware of the joke condom studies are. These studies use self reporting from test subjects. EVERYONE knows that the test subjects are lying. Social scientists call this “social desirability bias.” In Atlanta at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections scientists Dawn Smith has presented results from her study. She researched 2 larger studies and found that homosexual men who used condoms intermittently(that would be the vast majority) contracted aids at the same rate as those who used nothing.
Read her study results here—http://mobile.aidsmap.com/Consistent-condom-use-in-anal-sex-stops-70-of-HIV-infections-study-finds-but-intermittent-use-has-no-effect/page/2586976/
IMHO this wacko president is just trying to beggar this nation.
Queen of the most Holy Rosary pray for us.
In the case of fornication or adultery, the sexual act is not contrary to nature; the sin lies in the persons involved and their connections with other persons. Thus I should think that the use of a condom would aggravate the sin. In the case of a homosexual “union,” I like other contributors think that the use or nonuse of condom does not aggravate the sin; if it reduces the risk of disease transmission, it MIGHT in some way be morally good.
Ooh! I need just one more for a bingo. “Immigrant”. “Gay” “Spanish” “Condom”
@Minnesotan
Would it be less morally wrong if I shot someone with a .22 or a M1? Does it matter that a person shot by a .22 might suffer less before dying than someone shot by an M1?
Mitigating the consequences of sin doesn’t change the sinful act. In fact, in many cases, attempts to mitigate the consequences of sin will encourage others to participate.
PnKn, thanks, i have now read the links you provided:
From the The Catholic Herald