Condom Ads Target Catholics on World AIDS Day

Steve Waldman:

Planetwire.org, a website on family planning issues, reports:

Two new radio advertisements for condom use began to target Catholics in the U.S. Hispanic community here today, World AIDS Day, with the message that "good Catholics use condoms" to protect the people they love.

Full report here.

... and guess who's behind it? That offensive organization Catholics for Choice. More propaganda:

One of the ads features a grandmother talking about her grandson, who is gay, and the other involves a couple discussing the importance of love, faith and condom use in their relationship. "We are Catholics and people of faith and we know sex is sacred and that we need to take care of each other. And this means using a condom every time we have sex," the second ad says.

I'm trying to find a parallel to reveal the double-standard here: how making these lying claims about Catholics is acceptable, while patently-false truth-claims about other religions would be derided. It's like saying "good Mormons use alcohol, tabacco, coffea and tea" or "good Muslims adore Jesus Christ as God" ... imagine how those ad campaigns would be received.

I dunno, I'm just getting really fed up with Catholics for Choice and I'm too distracted right now to think up a comprehensive plan to counter-act their dissembling efforts. Especially their tactic of turning World AIDS Day into "world scapegoat-the-Catholic-Church-for-AIDS-Day."

This ploy becomes incredibly tragic when one realizes that the Church's teaching on abstinence before marriage and fidelity within marriage, when widely practiced, does more to reduce the incidence of new HIV/AIDS infections than all the condoms Catholics for Choice could ever throw at the problem.