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Catholics: Now Cool With Gay Sex?
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Jacob Dobkin
Published Feb 26, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Published Feb 26, 2006
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Dude-- we were in LA for five days and when we returned everything was different! The temperature dropped like 50 degrees, and according to this poster we saw outside the Prince Street N/R station, the Catholic church is now cool with BOTH gay sex and condoms. Way to go guys-- keep reaching for that rainbow!
UPDATE: apparently the campaign isn't being sponsored by the Catholic Church! How could we be so stupid? It's being sponsored by Condoms4Life.org:
Condoms4Life is an unprecedented worldwide public education effort to raise public awareness about the devastating effect of the bishops’ ban on condoms. The campaign was launched on World AIDS Day 2001 with the display of billboards and ads in subways and newspapers saying, “Banning Condoms Kills.”
The advertising campaign in the US, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, Chile and Zimbabwe, was the first phase of an effort to change the Vatican’s policy and challenge its aggressive lobbying against availability and access to condoms in areas of the world most at risk. The ads point out that many of the 4,000 plus bishops lobby governments and the United Nations to restrict access to condoms claiming that condoms cause AIDS, not prevent it.
We don't know much about Catholicism-- but here's a simpleminded question: can you really support gays and condoms and still be a Catholic? Isn't the whole point that whatever the pope says goes? How far can you disagree with the Church and not end up a Protestant? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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