Johnny Saves the Day!

I can see where the Pope is coming from. He claims that complete abstinence is the best way to prevent transmission of AIDS, because then there is no medium for the virus to be transmitted. This seems perfectly sensible and logical.

However, there is a problem. Humans are not completely rational, and no matter how hard they try, they will give in to their primeval carnal desires. And when this happens, if they have been practising abstinence, they're stuffed. On the other hand, if they have been using a condom and having sex, then whilst they have been in risk of getting AIDS all along, condoms really are quite effective, and certainly are more effective than a night of unplanned sex that ends up with your blood infected and your inmmune system up the swanney.

Condoms save lives. As soon as the Catholic Church realises this, the better.

A Torn Man

I am, as the title suggests, a torn man. I cannot stand what that group of Muslim protestors did, and think it a gross miscarriage of justice that they are allowed to stand there and hurl abuse at the men and women who have been off to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight for us.

However, I also think it is absolutely wonderful that they are allowed to. This is, after all, one of the reasons that Anglian Regiment were out in a war-zone, so that people were free to voice their opinions without fear of repurcussions.

Modern Britain does not have a lot going for it. The NHS, and that's about it, really. But the fact that these people were allowed to victimise a group of people based purely on their occupation actually makes me a little bit proud to call myself British. I normally support the forces instinctively (although not blindly), and I do so here, but I would like to call anyone who has called for protestors like them to be banned from parades and so on a naive and moronic pillock.