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Hephaestion
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posted 12 January 2006 05:44 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
... and the priests are having a fit

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Roman Catholic priests in a Colombian town are furious over a councilman's proposal that people 14 and older must carry a condom at all times to reduce unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

William Pena, a councilman in Tulua, said Wednesday he will present a formal proposal requiring all men and women - even those just on a visit to the town - to carry at least one condom. Those caught empty-pocketed could be fined $180 or ordered to take a safe sex course, he said.

"Sexual relations are going on constantly," Pena told The Associated Press in an interview. "If you carry a condom, chances are you'll use it during the day. It's not going to be there forever."

Tulua has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in Colombia, he said. The proposal will be debated by other town leaders and could go into effect by March.

Roman Catholic priests in the Cauca Valley town, 150 miles southwest of Bogota, were fuming over the plan.

The Rev. Jesus Velasquez said it would only encourage sexual relations and ridiculed it as absurd. "I would have to have a condom even though I'm a member of the clergy," he was quoted as saying in the newspaper El Tiempo.

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Ramiro Cano, a 19-year-old laborer in Tulua, said Wednesday the proposal was the talk of the town and most young people he talked to support it. "I try to always carry a condom on me, especially if I go to a discotheque, in case I can pick someone up," Cano said.

The proposal is perhaps the most radical in a series of pro-condom efforts across Colombia, where 190,000 people are infected with the HIV virus, a figure only surpassed in Latin America by Brazil, according to the World Health Organization.

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aRoused
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posted 12 January 2006 05:49 AM      Profile for aRoused     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What's BWAGA's position on this?
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Hephaestion
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posted 12 January 2006 07:17 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
BWAGA's position????

Why, legs crossed and arms folded, of course.

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skdadl
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posted 12 January 2006 07:27 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
BWAGA strongly supports the use of condoms.

Well, we have to say that up front, without qualifiers, don't we.

However, as your faithful treasurer, I must say I was a bit startled to read this:

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"Sexual relations are going on constantly,"

I would be the last to know, of course, but if this is so, things are not looking good for the treasury.


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Boom Boom
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posted 12 January 2006 08:02 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
How much is a plane ticket to Tulua, he asked, innocently, all the while flicking the ash of the end of his cigar.
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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 12 January 2006 08:16 AM      Profile for Américain Égalitaire   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Boom Boom:
How much is a plane ticket to Tulua, he asked, innocently, all the while flicking the ash of the end of his cigar.

You naughty boy.

Although I have to admit, a place where "Sexual relations are going on constantly," is quite an attraction.

As for this:

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The Rev. Jesus Velasquez said it would only encourage sexual relations and ridiculed it as absurd. "I would have to have a condom even though I'm a member of the clergy," he was quoted as saying in the newspaper El Tiempo.

Well, um, OK. If some person desperate for sex needed your condom, you'd have a spare.

Sooooo. Would this town have "random condom checks" on the streets?


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Boom Boom
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posted 12 January 2006 10:43 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Originally posted by Américain Égalitaire:
You naughty boy.

Sorry - couldn't resist!


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Reality. Bites.
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posted 12 January 2006 10:52 AM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wouldn't two condoms be the bare minimum? Otherwise if you did have sex with someone and used your one-and-only condom you could get arrested on the way home.
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