This blog relates to my last one, I was on cnn.com today like I am everyday, and there was an article about religion and condoms, primarily condoms in the Catholic Church.

I posted the link as well, but, I find this article both good and bad..

I am going to give you a heads up, I think this is a serious issue and my mind tends to drift, but I will do my best…

I am at a catholic university, and I can relate to much of what Roland martin is saying…it seems as though Catholics turn a blind eye to the reality of this situation…

A brief history about this argument is the Vatican banned the use of contraceptions, and I have posted a link to a site that explains what happened back in the day when contraceptions were banned…contraceptions are basically anything used to prevent child birth.

Here is a snippet from the article.. Pope Benedict is in Africa this week on a six-day tour, his first since his ascension to the papacy, and he made some remarks that have sparked outrage in the motherland, where Catholicism is spreading like wildfire.

In response to written questions from reporters, the pope said this about HIV/AIDS: "You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem."

He is absolutely correct that condoms are not the solution to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS. He is also 100 percent correct that the only surefire way of stopping HIV/AIDS, when it comes to sex, is to practice abstinence. That is clearly within the teachings of the Bible and the Catholic Church, and he will find no disagreement from me.

Now the reality.

People are having sex. Catholics are having sex. Heck, some Catholic priests have abandoned their oath and have had sex.

As a layman and the husband of a pastor, I know the difference between utopia and reality, and it is the responsibility of the faith community to deal with the real world.

And frankly, Pope Benedict clearly shows he doesn't get it.

I find this statement quite harsh, I am a practicing catholic, well, I am more of a cafeteria catholic, I pick and choose what I want to believe…and I think that is ok, you won’t always agree with everything a religion spells out for you.

I think what the pope was trying to say is that there should not even be this debate if people stuck to the principal and did not have sex outside of marriage. Die hard Catholics only have sex to reproduce. So its understanding, well at least to me that the pope and some of the Catholic Church don’t understand this issue.

But at the same time, it is the reality that people are having sex. Heres part of the article that I strongly agree with what we need today are our church leaders preaching, teaching and imploring their members not to go to bed with anyone and everyone. We also need church leaders who are willing to stand up and tell folks that if they do choose to sin -- that's what the church and other faith leaders consider sex outside of marriage -- then you had better take the necessary precautions to protect yourself.

I think this isn’t the solution, but a way to prevent the spread of diseases and unwanted pregnancies, but at the same time, my mind contradicts myself because I don’t think sex should be a topic in church.

I am an active member in my religious community aswell as on campus and I get the point, I know its a different generation and people have sex. But when does and should religion come in to play?

This is a touchy subject and I dont want to go to deep in to my opinion...I just want everyone to look in to this and form their own opinion, here are the sites..
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/aboutme/birthcontrol.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/18/martin.condoms/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/28/pope.condom.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/cameroon.pope/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/cameroon.pope/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/cameroon.pope/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/18/martin.condoms/index.html#cnnSTCText