Oh for the love of Jaysus…..

At the risk of sounding like an outraged teenager raging against every fashionable issue going (Johann Hari in the UK’s Independent newspaper does that job so well, and so often, for us already) I see that his Popiness has opened his mouth again and declared that AIDS is “a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems”.

Now Benny, love, I know your solution to the Aids crisis is for everyone to sit in their caves under the mountain, under the sea, with their hands on their demurely crossed knees sipping a campari and bromide but honestly man get a grip. If you can make pragmatic decisions to lift the excommunication on a nazi fellow traveller (oh sue me) in order to re-absorb some latin spouting, smells and bells high camp girls sorority into the mother church then surely you can make the intellectual leap and recognise that while condoms may not be the perfect solution (on the grounds they lessen sensation and smell funny) they are a better interim solution to a present problem while you continue to get buy in on your sit-on-hands evangelising.

And good luck with that incidentally…….