For all of South African Bishop Kevin Dowling’s rage against the unfairness of the AIDS epidemic, his rejection of the Church’s teaching on contraception and insistence that the use of condoms for AIDS victims is a valid medical use has a very glaring problem: He rejects, a priori, the idea that people can be taught that it is immoral to engage in extramarital sexual activity and that they should abstain from sex. After all, which is worse: endangering your physical health or putting yourself in danger of hell?
