Hypothetical curious question

[Juliakitty]

Suppose a man has been diagnosed with an incurable, life-threatening sexually transmitted disease. The disease is currently showing no symptoms; however, it's still contagious.

Suppose the man converts to fundieism and marries a woman. The woman knows about the disease and is willing to accept the risk IF he wears a condom every time.

Do the fundie leaders let him use a condom, or do they expect that he should go without and possibly give the disease to his wife AND any future children they might have?

[Kitchen Princess]

If the fundie leaders know about the disease, there's no way in HELL they'd allow him to breathe the same air they do. He'd be politely snubbed, or worse.

[sea_gale]

He'd be expected to stay a godly celibate.

[genericJname]

Better for the wife to die of such an affliction than be tarnished by satan's latex.

[bananacat]

Most likely he wouldn't be ever be truly accepted in the church. He might be allowed to stick around as a motivating testimonial and/or a warning to the youth, but he would never be more than a prop to them. If he somehow managed to get a father's permission to marry a fundie bride, there would absolutely not be any condoms used. They would all pretend that God would magically protect her from it if he loves her enough. She would be expected to have baby after baby just like any other Quiverfull wife, and just accept this one additional risk that comes along with it. If they don't care about women dying in childbirth, why would they care about women dying from an STD? She'd just be a martyr for the cause, dying for the group's strict belief in no condoms. They'd justify it by saying her life alone is worth less than the potentially dozens of lives that would never exist if her husband used condoms.

[Juliakitty]

Even if the STD could also be transmitted to the kids during pregnancy/birth?

[CanadianHippie]

Even if the STD could also be transmitted to the kids during pregnancy/birth?

Silly, if that happens it's Gods will that the children be punished for their parents actions. :naughty:

[Deleted07]

Yeah I cannot imagine them fully accepting him, unless its an outreach church where they specifically cater to people with STD's etc, so only then would they probably be able to marry someone who has the same/similar disease as them? Who knows!

[Buzzard]

Suppose a man has been diagnosed with an incurable, life-threatening sexually transmitted disease. The disease is currently showing no symptoms; however, it's still contagious.

Suppose the man converts to fundieism and marries a woman. The woman knows about the disease and is willing to accept the risk IF he wears a condom every time.

Do the fundie leaders let him use a condom, or do they expect that he should go without and possibly give the disease to his wife AND any future children they might have?

I actually had a friend in a sort of similar sitution. They were devout catholics and had 3 kids. He was in a horrible car accident in the late 80s and wound up HIV positive. The churh (or atleast his priest) allowed them to use condoms to protect her because not having sex in the marriage was a greater risk to the marriage than using the condom.