Medical update: Pope's head still firmly lodged in rectum

(MSNBC)
Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa on Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.

Benedict had never directly addressed condom use. He has said that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.

"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon, where he will begin a seven-day pilgrimage on the continent. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

How does one even respond to nonsense of this caliber? Condoms increase the problem? NO THEY DON'T YOU STUPID DIPSHIT!

I am so tired of idealogues who frame issues by deciding what they want the outcome to be and then trying to shape the facts to fit. The earth isn't 6,000 years old because you desperately need it to be, Obama is not a Muslim and condoms don't make AIDS worse.

Of course abstinence works better. Of course it does. And magic carpets would cure our dependence on foreign oil but they're not going to happen either.