Catholic Chicanery

Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio, the head of the Catholic church in Mozambique told the BBC that he believes condoms made in Europe are deliberately infected with HIV to kill the Africans who use them. This pisses me the hell off. Along with Africa's huge numbers of HIV-infected people come all sorts of pseudoscientific claims about AIDS cures. It's disheartening but not surprising that witch doctors, tribal leaders, and even government officials would claim to have discovered a special diet or herbal supplement or some other nonsense to "cure" such a widespread and devastating disease. But the Catholic church has a major foothold in the formerly colonized areas of Africa, and they have been waging a war of lies to keep condoms--a proven method of fighting the spread of HIV--out of the hands of Africans purely to further their own anti-contraceptive lunacy. And they'll spread any kind of paranoid rumor they can make up to further their agenda. How about this, Archbishop Chimoio--if every sperm is so sacred, why don't you inject yourself with one from an AIDS patient?