Don't you think this attitude... Is abut disingenuous?

That's a fair enough question, Steve. It is all to do with who, in the last resort, is responsible for my actions. Can I, in fact, appeal to the defence "I was just following orders?" I don't think so, which I have no alternative to being able to justify then to myself. Buttons raises a separate and equally important aspect: soean't that mean I am just doing what I want anyway? And that is a genuine risk. So it is actually the slow rate if change of the church that helps. You have already deal of what in the legal world would be case law and precedent and whatever I decide to do needs to be weighed against that. Not that I always agree with it, but I try keep the idea I may not be right.

As to use of condoms to prevent HIV I agree with you. As, you will recall from an earlier post of Joe's, did Pope Benedict.