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Originally Posted by sfloriII
I heard a good analogy the other day. Basically what the pope was saying by all this is like a bank robber using blanks in his gun instead of real bullets. The act of robbing the bank is still just as evil. The fact that he decided to use blanks instead of real bullets to prevent killing anyone merely shows that he wants to minimize the evil of his act. But the act is still evil just the same. It doesn't mean that robbing a bank is now moral/allowed as long as you use a gun with blanks.
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Expand the analogy. Is it equally good for a HIV positive husband to 'use blanks in his gun' and wear a condom? It doesn't mean that sex without reproduction is immoral, it just shows that a husband can attempt to be the same kind of moral person that the Pope allowed a prostitute to be.