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From: lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com
"Michelle Steiner" wrote in message
news:michelle-2F1DEB.22005115022007@news.east.cox.net...
> New York's top Catholic leaders on Thursday sharply criticized the city
> for "blanketing our neighborhoods with condoms," saying city officials
> were promoting promiscuity and degrading society by distributing
> subway-themed condoms.
>
> The city launched the new official condoms on Valentine's Day with
> volunteers handing out free samples throughout the city, including on a
> street corner near St. Patrick's Cathedral in midtown Manhattan.
>
> The plan, the Catholic leaders said, "is tragic and misguided," adding
> that the only way to protect against sexually transmitted diseases is
> through abstinence before marriage and fidelity among married couples.
>
> "Our political leaders fail to protect the moral tone of our community
> when they encourage inappropriate sexual activity by blanketing our
> neighborhoods with condoms," said Cardinal Edward Egan, head of the
> Archdiocese of New York, and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn in a
> joint statement.
>
> Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said: "With all due
> respect to Cardinal Egan and Bishop DiMarzio, we feel differently."
>
> New York officials revamped the condom wrapper in hopes that a
> distinctive design < featuring the words "NYC Condom" in the fonts and
> colors used in the subway system < will let them track usage with their
> annual community health survey.
>
> Egan and DiMarzio said the $720,000 cost of the program "would be far
> better spent in fostering what is true and what is decent."
>
> --
Christer's resolve to go without sex can't be very strong if the mere
presence of condoms in the neighborhood force them to fuck....
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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