Catholics for a Free Choice call for Vatican change on condoms

"Catholics for a Free Choice", who are behind the "Condoms 4 Life" initiative - which launched a massive ad campaign during the last world youth day to promote condom use - predictably issued a call this week urging Pope Benedict to change Church teaching on the use of condoms:

"Last week, the Condoms4Life campaign welcomed the news that another prominent cardinal had come forward to make a stand in support of the culture of life. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini joined a growing chorus of voices within the church suggesting that for couples where one partner has HIV/AIDS, the use of condoms is “a lesser evil.” Now we hear that the pope himself has commissioned the Council on Health Care to study this issue in the interest in changing it long-contentious stand against the use of condoms, even to prevent the spread of disease."

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"We ask that Benedict XVI show courage, compassion and vision and that he lift this ban against condoms as a step to promote a true culture of life." [source]

It's nice they appropriate our language (for instance, "culture of life"). The ad campaign promoting condoms that they organized for world youth day also included pictures of two men gazing lovingly at each other, and their latest newsletter ("Conscience") has a picture of two lesbians kissing accompanied by the main article's title as a caption "Catholic Pride... and Prejudice: the story behind the hierarchy's obsession with sexuality."

The list of follies goes on and on, but what irks me in all this the most, however, is that they get to use the name of a prominant Catholic cardinal as being "on their side" as they issue their pleas to the Vatican.