Guess what? According to Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, the pope is right on how to stop AIDS in Africa.
Let that sink in a bit.
Everyone's making fun of the pope, making him out to be some sort of laughingstock, as if he's arguing that there is no evidence smoking causes cancer or thalidomide is good for morning sickness. Yet here is no conservative organization but rather one dedicated to the cause of preventing AIDS (how liberal does that have to be?), associated with not only a liberal university but the best university in the country, not merely grudgingly conceding that it's theoretically possible that maybe some additional research might eventually give credence to something the pope said, but saying, outright, the pope is right. Period.
Wow.
The argument is credible. Gee, these are low-fat cookies, I can eat twice as many of them. (Never mind the fat is only reduced by 33%.) Wow, low-fat cheese, woo-hoo, let's go wild! And if I'm "protected" by condoms, I can let it all hang loose, do whatever I want. Never mind that one slips or breaks now and then. Or once in a while I forget it and I'm too worked up to back off.
I'll check the front page of the New York Times for this tomorrow.
