Condoms Promote Immorality - Cardinal

Sep 28, 2003

Catholic Church officials in Uganda have re-echoed their concern over the encouragement of people to use condoms saying that it promotes immorality.

By Josephine Maseruka
Catholic Church officials in Uganda have re-echoed their concern over the encouragement of people to use condoms saying that it promotes immorality.
His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala recently said condoms were originally made for prostitutes.
“If we want to promote immorality then we shall continue advocating artificial methods like condoms,” he told journalists at his residence in Lubaga.
Wamala said abstinence was the best method. He was reacting to a question on how the Church would handle the HIV/AIDS issue among the youth yet it opposes condom use.
Secretary General of the Uganda Episcopal Conference Fr. Joseph Obunga said people should learn to base life on Gospel messages.
Obunga said God created man in his own image and one characteristic man has over any creature is intelligence.
He said condoms were not totally safe and those who use them go in for sex as creatures without intellect.
Obunga explained that the Church, through a programme, Save the Youth From Aids was sensitising the youth against AIDS.
On homosexuality, Wamala said it was not a problem for the Anglican Church alone but a societal one affecting all religious denominations.
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