[teejay]

>Say one day I become the president of Kenya (You never
>know!)as a born again Christian, would I advocate for
>abstenance (based on my christian beliefs) or would I
>encourage the use of condoms based on the facts that not all
>of my country men are christians and hence have no obligation
>to be chaste yet I as their president owe it to them to save
>them from their own runaway hormones/

Although am not amongst those you have hinted as the people who possibly hold answers to your qeust. I will go ahead and say a word or two.

My stand on condoms is one that i cannot be forced to retract no matter what happens. Being a follower of christ I know that asking people to practise safe sex through use of condoms is actually encouraging promiscuity. The wages of sin is death, we are taught from the holy scriptures and so are we taught that thou shalt not commit adultery. But what have we done? Claim that such commands were only meant for Isrealites in mosaic days. And what is the result- UKIMWI and consequently death!

And by the way the best way to save peoples lives is to ask them to a responsible life and not to give them condoms. If they say no to that then you cannot help them because they will have chosen death instead of life.

>This arguement can be extended further to pornography. would
>you accept it (thus uphold the freedom of expression) or would
>you condemn it (hence impose your own social cultural values
>on others?)Is it even possible to ryhmn Christianity with
>democratic values? can christians become politicians?

As a christian what do you think? My take on this is that condeming ponography has nothing to with imposing one's own social cultural values on others. It is a matter of rebuling what is sin.After all everyone owes theit life to on supreme GOD who sent us his son to show us they way.

One may look at me as a person who is closed minded,but I must say that I know not any other way of looking at things other than judge them according to what is written in God's holy book for it is the only detector of errors. Human knowledge we are told is foolishness to God.And so is the act of prescribing condom use to people who have animal instincts and cannot control their sexual urge.