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

[John W.]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:



> 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


Hmmm....

Quote Noam Chomsky to 'em?

Refer 'em to Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"?

Avoid bourgeois dinner parties?  ;-)

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