Burning condoms for Jesus

My friend Mickey Nardo responded to all this about the pope and condoms in Africa with this:

When we were in Kenya, we asked our guide about condoms. He said the government tried putting up free condom dispensers all over the place. They kept disappearing. They thought, "Great. They're stealing them for their villages." But then they found great heaps of them in the bush, burned in bonfires with crosses on top. Seems the local priests had been having "burn the devil's machines" services in the jungle. The logic of burning condom dispensers for Jesus is just too amazing to contemplate. In fact, using up precious trees for bonfires is also outrageous in Africa, where there are hardly any trees left. There's something strange about making babies and burning trees in a place with overpopulation and rampant deforestation.

And, lest we feel too smug, remember that it wasn't until 1965 that the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswald v. Connecticut, invalidated that state's law that prohibited the use of contraceptives.

Ralph