Pope Benedict:  Ignorant Jackass

In a staggeringly display of cluelessness, Pope Benedict actually said this week during his visit to Africa “It (AIDS) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem.”

Tell that to Uganda, the only African country to have significantly reduced the prevalence of HIV in its population in the last 20 years - almost exclusively due to proper education and distribution of condoms.

Nobody expects the Pope to have much of a grasp on science or anything that really matters, but insisting that condoms increase the spread of HIV is tantamount to claiming the sky is green.  The rest of the Vatican is already backpeddling and trying to cover for this latest bit of idiocy.