Joe:

I respect that the Pope is in the business of long-term, ideal values.   

That being the case, he should be less inclined to impose short-term moral strictures on human behavior. People will steer themselves straight, given the right viewpoint and understanding they can take as their own; but if they are driven by ad hoc orders and arbitrary strictures, with out understanding, they will resign themselves, sneak out the back, or blow up. It's the nature of the beast, IMHO.

Telling people not to use a prophylactic because they should be better than all that just doesn't strike me as a workable formulation.

No offense meant.


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