Pope Dope

This should be obvious to most people, even most Catholics--but the Nazi Pope is a complete moron about his position on condoms and AIDS. And he risks making his church even more irrelevant than it has already become. To review:

In a discussion with reporters on the plane to Cameroon, the Pope said "You can't resolve [the AIDS epidemic] with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem."

Almost immediately, humanitarian groups decried his comments, and government officials from European countries began condemning the Pope's stance as well.

Not only is the pope's public comments off the mark, they are dangerous. Doctors on the front lines of the fight against AIDS established long ago that the use of condoms greatly diminishes the transmission of HIV. So any public comments from a world leader against the use of condoms serves to dissuade AIDS-infected people from practicing safe sex.

The pope's comment was so alarming that a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said, "We consider that these statements endanger public health policies and the imperative to protect human life." So in a sense, the pope has also violated the Catholic church's own oft-stated mandate to "protect human life." He should be ashamed of himself.