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Condoms By Luke Gormally: Article Analysis

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In Luke Gormally’s article on “Marriage and the Prophylactic Use of Condoms,” the background of the article is an email exchange between himself and Fr. Martin Rhonheimer in 2004. They both discussed Rhonheimer’s publication of The Tablet. Basically, Gormally argues that marriage should consist of children in order to be a good one. Also, he believes that using condoms prevents having children, which leads to a bad marriage. The article claims that, a married man who is HIV-infected and uses the condom to protect his wife from infection is not acting to render procreation impossible, but to prevent infection. If conception is prevented, this will be an unintentional side effect and will not therefore shape the moral meaning of the act as a

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