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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Karen Medina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">At a dinner party last week, we were briefly discussing Haiti.<br><br>A friend said that Haiti's poverty problem is due to overpopulation,<br>
that their Catholicism kept them from using birth control, and that if<br>they used birth control it would be the biggest help to solving their<br>poverty problem.<br><br>How terribly uninformed can people be?<br>Even MY FRIENDS are saying things like this. I was shocked.<br>
<br>For starters, as far as I know, Haiti is not a Catholic country.<br>Voodoo and Protestantism seem more prevalent than Catholicism. For<br>instance, United Methodists have a mission in Haiti and they are just<br>one among hundreds probably.<br>
<br>How do YOU deal with people like this?<br><br>-- karen medina</blockquote>
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<div>Hmmm....</div>
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<div>Quote Noam Chomsky to 'em?</div>
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<div>Refer 'em to Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"?</div>
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<div>Avoid bourgeois dinner parties? ;-)</div>
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