[Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's problem is overpopulation

[Karen Medina]

At a dinner party last week, we were briefly discussing Haiti.

A friend said that Haiti's poverty problem is due to overpopulation,
that their Catholicism kept them from using birth control, and that if
they used birth control it would be the biggest help to solving their
poverty problem.

How terribly uninformed can people be?
Even MY FRIENDS are saying things like this. I was shocked.

For starters, as far as I know, Haiti is not a Catholic country.
Voodoo and Protestantism seem more prevalent than Catholicism. For
instance, United Methodists have a mission in Haiti and they are just
one among hundreds probably.

How do YOU deal with people like this?

-- karen medina

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