Church stops pharmacy selling condoms
March 24, 2008
The Catholic Church has come under fire in a German town for preventing the sale of condoms in a drugstore whose premises are leased from the Church. Pharmacy Schlecker has thousands of branches across Germany but a report this week that one shop in Fulda could not sell condoms has led to protests in the western town and sparked accusations the Church has failed to move with the times. The Church has said it could not preach against using contraceptives and then allow their sale on its property. Mark Matthies, head of the local youth wing of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), said in a world where sexually transmitted diseases were increasingly prevalent, the Church was behaving irresponsibly and needed to see that condoms saved lives. Christof Ohnesorge, a spokesman for the bishopric of Fulda, said Schlecker had signed the lease with the Church more than 20 years ago and that a reporter had probably chosen to revisit the ban to capitalise on the public’s short memory ahead of Easter.
Article Via: HeraldSun.com.au
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