Once again, a UN official blames the Catholic Church for the spread of AIDS

I guess the Reuters reporter and I simply have a difference in perspective:

Reuters:

The rapid spread in Latin America of the virus that causes AIDS is made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's stand against using condoms, a U.N. official said on Monday.

I respond:

The rapid spread in Latin America of the virus that causes AIDS is made worse by young people not following the Church's teaching on promiscuous premarital sex, the AmericanPapist said on Tuesday.

Reuters:

..."In Latin America the use of condoms has been demonized, but if they were used in every relation I guarantee the epidemic would be resolved in the region," said Alberto Stella, the UNAIDS Coordinator for Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

I respond:

..."In Latin America the Church's teaching has been ignored, and if every person followed her teaching, I can even more guarantee the epidemic would be resolved in the region, said Thomas Peters, the AmericanPapist in Washington DC.

Reuters:

... The Catholic Church, which holds sway in Latin America despite the rise in evangelical churches, opposes all forms of contraception and instead promotes abstinence as a way to avoid spreading AIDS.

I respond:

The Catholic Church, which is actually joined by the evangelical churches on the issue of teaching that premarital sex is immoral, opposes all inadequate responses to this disease and instead promotes abstinence as a way of attacking the underling cause of the aids epidemic, e.g., rampant premarital sex (and by the way, does Reuters truly believe that the folks who are already disobeying the Church about premarital sex aren't in fact also using condoms as well?).

Maybe an analogy would help make this point more clear:

If we notice that a culture is getting into the habit of hitting each other over the head with baseball bats, should we respond by a) giving them Styrofoam pads to put on the bats so they don't hurt each other as much, or be) should we teach them to stop hitting each other with the baseball bats in the first place?

Intelligent readers will hopefully be able to make the appropriate conceptual substitutions.