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PAGE 12 — The Georgia Bulletin, February 19,1987 Church Officials Oppose "Safe Sex" Campaign Against AIDS BY SISTER MARY ANN WALSH WASHINGTON (NC) — Promotion of condoms to fight AIDS — especially through television advertising — has brought an outcry from church officials, including the general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference. Advertising condoms on TV is “shortsighted, self- defeating" and a “false solution to a serious moral problem,” said Msgr. Daniel Hoye, USCC general secretary. In a statement Feb. 11 he praised national TV net works for refusing “to bow to the pressure to accept such advertising." He issued the statement the day after U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said concern for prevention of AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, “over whelms other considerations" in the debate on whether to run the TV ads. In Europe, meanwhile, several Catholic bishops con ferences criticized government programs promoting con doms. And the Vatican newspaper said such programs con tradict moral common sense. In the United States a few local stations — but no national networks — had agreed to carry condom ads despite TV's longstanding tradition against broadcasting ads for con traceptives Bishops- (Continued from page 1) emotional, social or, now. medical. Promiscuity of same sex or opposite sex has real consequences, now dbvious public health con sequences." Msgr. Smith pointed to AIDS, alcoholism and pel vic inflammatory diseases among women as "almost entirely behavior depen dent; they can be avoided or prevented by an act ol the will." He criticized concepts of “no-fault morality” and “safe sex" and said Plann ed Parenthood's campaign to promote condom use will result in an increase in all sexually transmitted dis eases. "That is not a pro phecy; it is an inevitabil ity” Msgr. 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Dr Lambert King, vice presi dent of professional affairs at St. Vincent Hospital in New York, told the bishops that AIDS is now present in more than 80 nations and “the magnitude and gravi ty of this epidemic exceeds our worst expectations." AIDS and AIDS-related diseases “will kill millions of people worldwide over the next decade and may- long darken our days to come." he said. About 10 million people worldwide and 1 million to 2 million in the United States have already been infected with the AIDS virus, he said. Between 5 percent and 25 percent of these will develop AIDS, he said, and another 25 percent will develop AIDS-related com plex 2$/aosris METRO WIDE DELIVERY MAJOR CREDIT CARDS BY PHONE ‘ ' tlOWIIJ FLOWIfi SHOPS 255-7127 5975 Roswell Rd. Hammond Festival Center 565-2217 1401 Johnson Ferrv Rd. Merchants Festival Center AIDS Worldwide Airing the ads gives "implicit encouragement of (the) per missive and immoral behavior" inherent in such ads and “will do more harm than good," Msgr. Hoye said. The USCC is “unalterably opposed" to the ads, he said, calling the ads “a gross violation” of parents' rights to guide their children's moral and social development. Msgr. Hoye commended the stated purpose behind the push for condom ads — to stem the spread of AIDS — but said the idea was “simplistic" and “could have far-reaching negative effects." Condom ads won’t decrease illicit sexual ac tivity, he said. “It is more likely to confirm people and particularly teen-agers in the view that such activity is to be taken for granted." Msgr. Hoye cited TV bans on liquor and cigarette ads because they offend segments of the viewing au dience and said condom ads should be banned for the same reason. Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington .also urged networks to continue to refuse the ads, which he described as “so repugnant to the Catholic Commu nity." He said advertising con doms and distributing them "is not a morally ap propriate response" to the AIDS crisis because it “trivializes sex and sexual relationships." Church officials in com munities where condom advertising has been ap proved for broadcast local ly also voiced criticism. “America is determined to trivialize sex and this is one more example," said Father Miles O'Brien Riley, informa tion officer for the San Francisco Archdiocese. He said the San Francisco Archdiocese “cares deeply for those who have AIDS and is fighting it with everything at our disposal," but not with condoms. “The real problem is with human sexuality, intimacy, relationships. To throw condoms at the problem is like giv ing clean needles to heroin addicts. It’s giving up." GLOBAL CONCERN — The United States is not the only nation con cerned about the growing spread of AIDS. The disease is spreading in Western Europe and nations are spending millions in an effort to stem the tide. In Africa, to contact “slim” means certain death — and thousands are catching it. Only in Asia is the “disease” still rare. (NC map from UPI) Charities Drive (Continued from page 1) *$246,000 for Catholic Social Services, which provides ser vices to the poor in rural areas, services to the elderly, refugee resettlement, Hispanic services, counseling, emergency aid, and crisis pregnancy and adoption ser vices. Catholic Social Services reaches some 4,000 to 5,000 families a year with many types of aid and support. *$450,000 for the Department of Education, which in cludes Catholic schools, religious education and campus ministry to college students. The numbers served in each of these programs continue to grow. Fifteen Catholic schools teach over 5,400 students: parish religious education pro grams, coordinated by the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education, instruct over 19,000 in the Catholic faith; and 6,000 to 7,000 students are affected by campus ministry at the University of Georgia, Athens, and at Georgia Tech. Atlanta University, Emory University. Georgia State University and Agnes Scott College in the Atlanta metropolitan area. *$90,000 for the seminarian program which is preparing 12 seminarians in the United States and nine in Ireland for service to the archdiocese as priests in the coming years. *$85,000 for the support of mission churches in rural areas and for the support of inner city parishes. This aid enables the Church to be sustained and grow in areas with small Catholic populations and in poorer areas. This evangeliza tion effort is the most basic work of the Church. Support will go to Cleveland and Blairsville in north Georgia, to Banks County, Cartersville and Washington, Ga. and to St. An thony’s and Our Lady of Lourdes parishes in Atlanta. *$129,000 for the continued growth of the Church in the form of purchase of land for future church sites and in the form of subsidized construction or property loans to parishes in the process of building. The rising needs of the Church reflect the growing Catholic population and are cause for excitement about the future of the archdiocese which is experiencing rapid growth, both because of the influx of Catholics from other parts of the country, and because of new members joining the Catholic Church in north Georgia. On Sunday March 8 the goal for the archdiocese will be to reach the $1 million mark in support of these activities in social services, in education, in seminary education, in evangelization through missions and inner city parishes, and in continued growth. 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