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Bluenorthwest

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7. How do you condone teaching those in HIV hot zones not to use condoms? Over 100,000 a month
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 09:19 AM
Nov 2015

die in Africa. Uganda is 44% Catholic, 13% say they have at least seen a condom, 7.2% have HIV. Uganda is 1/10 the population of the US but has more than 10 X the number of AIDS deaths, over 60,000 a year in Uganda. This massive, relentless death toll creates a large number of orphans, over 650,000 AIDS orphans in Uganda alone.
Francis, he comes to Congress to lecture us about 'threats to the family'. He means LGBT. He does not seem to think that all those deaths from AIDS are a threat to the family worth mentioning.

So what is 'peace'? Are you at peace if your parents are dying from AIDS and you have no other family? If half your village is dead or dying are you in a holy state of peace, as you define peace?

Can you look at a preventable death toll in the monthly six figures and call that peace with a straight face?

Endorsing that is a hell of a thing. I'm not really into the sort of 'peace' that involves massive death rates.

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