“We can’t ignore the fact that abstinence and fidelity, although the ideal, may not always be the reality — that we’re dealing with flesh and blood men and women and not abstractions, and that if condoms and, potentially, things like microbicides, can prevent millions of deaths, then they should be made more widely available. Let me say this loud and clear: I don’t think that we can deny that there is a moral and spiritual component to prevention, that in too many places all over the world where HIV/AIDS is prevalent — including, by the way, right here in the United States — the relationship between men and women, between sexuality and spirituality, has broken down, and needs to be repaired.”
–U.S. Senator Barack Obama, speaking to a California evangelical group last week.
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