Heaven Forbid They Promote Deviant Sexual Behavior

Well, the Vatican’s in a tizzy over sex again. Once again, the rubber bounces back to spring up some condemnation…

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has withdrawn an anti-AIDS campaign ad featuring a smiling nun holding a condom after it sparked an outcry from Roman Catholics, local media said on Wednesday.

The poster, which shows the nun holding the condom with both hands and saying "Although I don't need one, even I know," had been removed from all condom machines in Taipei hospitals, subway stations and elsewhere.

"As a nun, I can't agree with their way of expressing things," a church spokeswoman said Wednesday. "This is a serious insult."

Nuns take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and the Vatican considers all forms of contraception a sin.

Local media said the plan had been to use someone with a "positive image" to promote the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.

There are about 300,000 Catholics on the island of 23 million people.

I’m totally amazed that in the 21^st Century, the Vatican is still so afraid of the oogie-boogie. So petrified that that they can’t put the fear aside for a dose of compassion about the health of people living in the real world. And if the history of the Catholic Church (not trying to single you guys out…I feel you’re all a tad insane) has shown us anything it’s that restrictive, repressive attitudes towards sexual relations has a high chance of turning normal human beings into sexual deviants. And I’m not talking about their more recent problems with the very visible end-results of enforcing such sexual depravities amongst their followers. I’m afraid this is probably an era of the least amount of sexual abuse in the history of the priesthood (if you don’t believe or understand that, then read a history book, it’s amazing what’s out there, you know). Again, I hate to single Catholicism out in this rant. The origins of their brand of faith is about as disturbing as the real histories of most of the other breeds.

But come on now, even if the Vatican must maintain its archaic views in other areas, they should at least show they’re capable of a little sympathy towards the plight of underdeveloped countries facing the AIDS epidemic. And don’t feed me any abstinence crap…when a God makes your genitals his business, it’s not God, it’s just men with delusions of self-grandeur… Jage