Amnesty International will never be one of my favorite organizations, for a variety of reasons, but in their recent dispute with the Catholic Church, they are right. They have recently announced a decision to back abortion rights for victims of rape. The Church, as a result, has threatened to boycott the organization, and insist that all Catholic lay members boycott them as well.
The change in Amnesty's policies stems in part from recent events in Darfur, where it is claimed that rape is often used as a weapon of war. Some women have claimed they were raped repeatedly by numerous men over a period of days. Some of them were then afflicted by sexually transmitted diseases, and forced to endure the burden of unwanted pregnancies. Additionally, many of their husbands disowned them.
The Catholic Church is now, and always has been, a radical extremist fringe group, who once had a lock on power in a significant part of the world, which they have lost. It is easy to see why they lost it.
This is not the only example of their extremism, but it will do for a start. One example of their pernicious influence on a nation's laws was related in this article from the Independent, which I highly recommend. A young seventeen year old pregnant girl in Peru sought an abortion when she discovered her fetus suffered from anencephaly. In other words, it would be born without a brain.
Not only was the girl denied an abortion, and forced to give birth to the infant, she was forced to breastfeed it for six days, until it finally died.
This kind of thing is why the Catholic Church has lost power over the last few centuries, and even more throughout the later decades.
This is an organization that preaches, and believes, that it is a good thing to live in poverty, and to suffer from illnesses and debilitating pain. It is good for the soul, to their curious way of thinking.
The Catholic hierarchy lusts in their hearts for the power the Church once held. They will hopefully never regain it. It would not be one iota more or less destructive for Islamic fanatics to establish total world domination than it would be for the Catholic Church to once more acquire it.
Even Jesuit Priest Father Daniel Berrigan, as fanatical a leftist in many regards as was ever birthed on US soil, has supported the Vatican on this issue.
Hopefully-and I say this in all seriousness-one of these days the Pope will be savagely ass-raped for a period of days on end, and then left somewhere for dead. I would hope, however, he would pull through and survive, preferably with combined cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS, and hepatitis. I would be curious as to what he would think of the prospect of enduring a nine-month pregnancy and giving birth to a child that came about as a result of such an ordeal.
The most maddening thing about their insane policy as regards to Amnesty's new stand-which is by the way expected to be supported and approved by a vast majority of the group's membership-is that they have not really changed their overall abortion policy. This policy is intended only for those cases of pregnancy resulting from obvious human rights abuses.
Still, the Church mindlessly prattles on, while women in third world countries and elsewhere suffer in many cases to an unimaginable degree.
Remember, though, to the Catholic Church's way of thinking, that is a good thing, right?
The change in Amnesty's policies stems in part from recent events in Darfur, where it is claimed that rape is often used as a weapon of war. Some women have claimed they were raped repeatedly by numerous men over a period of days. Some of them were then afflicted by sexually transmitted diseases, and forced to endure the burden of unwanted pregnancies. Additionally, many of their husbands disowned them.
The Catholic Church is now, and always has been, a radical extremist fringe group, who once had a lock on power in a significant part of the world, which they have lost. It is easy to see why they lost it.
This is not the only example of their extremism, but it will do for a start. One example of their pernicious influence on a nation's laws was related in this article from the Independent, which I highly recommend. A young seventeen year old pregnant girl in Peru sought an abortion when she discovered her fetus suffered from anencephaly. In other words, it would be born without a brain.
Not only was the girl denied an abortion, and forced to give birth to the infant, she was forced to breastfeed it for six days, until it finally died.
This kind of thing is why the Catholic Church has lost power over the last few centuries, and even more throughout the later decades.
This is an organization that preaches, and believes, that it is a good thing to live in poverty, and to suffer from illnesses and debilitating pain. It is good for the soul, to their curious way of thinking.
The Catholic hierarchy lusts in their hearts for the power the Church once held. They will hopefully never regain it. It would not be one iota more or less destructive for Islamic fanatics to establish total world domination than it would be for the Catholic Church to once more acquire it.
Even Jesuit Priest Father Daniel Berrigan, as fanatical a leftist in many regards as was ever birthed on US soil, has supported the Vatican on this issue.
Hopefully-and I say this in all seriousness-one of these days the Pope will be savagely ass-raped for a period of days on end, and then left somewhere for dead. I would hope, however, he would pull through and survive, preferably with combined cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS, and hepatitis. I would be curious as to what he would think of the prospect of enduring a nine-month pregnancy and giving birth to a child that came about as a result of such an ordeal.
The most maddening thing about their insane policy as regards to Amnesty's new stand-which is by the way expected to be supported and approved by a vast majority of the group's membership-is that they have not really changed their overall abortion policy. This policy is intended only for those cases of pregnancy resulting from obvious human rights abuses.
Still, the Church mindlessly prattles on, while women in third world countries and elsewhere suffer in many cases to an unimaginable degree.
Remember, though, to the Catholic Church's way of thinking, that is a good thing, right?
