HIV Funding and Churches

This story is bound to get liberals worked up:

President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly a quarter of its grants to religious groups, and aggressively is pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.

Award recipients include a Christian relief organization famous for its televised appeals to feed hungry children, a well-known Catholic charity, and a group run by the son of evangelist Billy Graham, according to the State Department.

I honestly have no problem with this approach as every other approach has failed. Quite simply put, HIV is a 100% preventable disease and abstinence, condom use and mongamy would cut new cases to nothing.

I am not so stupid as to think that new cases would cease by enlisting the assistance of churches, but I tend to think that in places like Africa where HIV is running rampant because of cultural reasons, missionaries can assist in the effort to stop the spread.

I suspect that some funding going Franklin Graham will get the libs screaming, but perhaps this new idea will help, because past efforts have not helped in any significant way.