Planned Parenthood launches campaign against

[Lil Red]

Planned Parenthood launches campaign against Pope Benedict XVI

New York, May. 03, 2005 (CNA) - Planed Parenthood has launched a campaign to motivate all of its members and supporters, nominal Catholics and non-Catholics, to send letters to the editor, requesting that Pope Benedict XVI reconsider his “backward views” and change his opinion on sexual morality.

Pope Benedict XVI must be encouraged to “reconsider his dangerously outdated stances on birth control, abortion and sexuality in order to help move the Catholic Church into the 21st century,” reads a memo issued by campaign manager Eve Fox.

“The new Pope's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the health of millions of women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS,” Fox wrote.

The campaign manager justified this action, saying that the “the Church has tremendous influence over many governments, especially in Latin America, and plays a powerful role in shaping social and political norms around the world.”

Calling him “even more conservative” than Pope John Paul II, Fox told her supporters that Pope Benedict XVI is “against all forms of contraception and opposes the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS.”

Prior to being elected Pope, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger “told Catholics in the U.S. it would be a sin to vote for pro-choice candidates like John Kerry, and urged bishops to deny Kerry Communion. He has also led the Catholic Church's campaign against same-sex marriage and other rights for same-sex couples, including the right to adopt children,” wrote Fox.

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[Ash Wednesday]

:hammer:

[MilesChristi]

[quote] requesting that Pope Benedict XVI reconsider his “backward views” and change his opinion on sexual morality.

Pope Benedict XVI must be encouraged to “reconsider his dangerously outdated stances on birth control, abortion and sexuality in order to help move the Catholic Church into the 21st century,” reads a memo issued by campaign manager Eve Fox. [/quote]


the sheer arrogance of these people...I can't help laughing. The folks who call ripping out a child's brains through a suction tube a "reproductive right" are calling the Church "backwards."

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

May God have mercy on their souls.

[philothea]

Hah!

Idiots. They might as well ask God to reconsider His positions. They'd get as far.

[kateri05]

lol it never ceases to amaze me how american catholics, especially nominal ones, think that the Pope OR the Church give a HOOT about their immoral, unfounded and non-fully formed conscience opinions.

like we take votes on things!

HA i say! HA!

[rufiokicks]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='May 3 2005, 01:08 PM']
Pope Benedict XVI must be encouraged to “reconsider his dangerously outdated stances on birth control, abortion and sexuality in order to help move the Catholic Church into the 21st century,” reads a memo issued by campaign manager Eve Fox. [/quote]
If his views were outdated we wouldn't being seeing things like abortion in our society. The views that sex is casual and has no consequences is what's outdated.

[quote name='Lil Red' date='May 3 2005, 01:08 PM'] “The new Pope's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the health of millions of women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS,” Fox wrote. [/quote]
This is what really got me. How can girls going out and having sex be safe? The Pope, along with all Orthodox Catholics, push for no sex outside of marriage. Chastity is what can prevent the spread of all STDS.

[quote name='Lil Red' date='May 3 2005, 01:08 PM'] Calling him “even more conservative” than Pope John Paul II, Fox told her supporters that Pope Benedict XVI is “against all forms of contraception and opposes the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS.” [/quote]
We're Orthodox, not Conservative. The Catholic Church is not a political party. We're not based on the American presidency or government; we're based on a system of morals and the Ultimate Truth.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Arrogance and immorality are bedfellows.

[RandomProddy]

I bet he's shaking in his little space boots.

[jezic]

that surprises me a bit.....

i don't think they have a chance though.

Hey guys, lets start a Catholic thing that is truly Catholic and petition them to change their views that are backwards.

[RandomProddy]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='May 3 2005, 08:08 PM'] ?The new Pope's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the health of millions of women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS,? Fox wrote. [/quote]
So? Planned Parenthood's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the lives of tens of millions of unborn women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to spread humanity which, technically, is a war crime...

[philothea]

[quote name='jezic' date='May 3 2005, 04:21 PM'] Hey guys, lets start a Catholic thing that is truly Catholic and petition them to change their views that are backwards. [/quote]
I love it! We need to write an official press release.

[Scofizzle]

double post...

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

I hate planned parenthood with a passion! :angry:

[Scofizzle]

[quote]The new Pope's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the health of millions of women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS,” Fox wrote.
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So, since when does not having sex untill marriage encourage the spread of HIV/AIDS?

[Luthien]

[quote name='RandomProddy' date='May 3 2005, 04:35 PM'] So? Planned Parenthood's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the lives of tens of millions of unborn women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to spread humanity which, technically, is a war crime... [/quote]
:tiphat:

I tip my hat to that.

PP is a plague. :angry:

[HomeTeamFamily]

come on yall, does an organization that is clearly non-catholic in nature, think that they can get the most powerful catholic to sway his views on prolly the most important issue right now?

come on people think first

i bet the pope has a fiddler that goes right to the trash can for mail like this.....

[HomeTeamFamily]

come on yall, does an organization that is clearly non-catholic in nature, think that they can get the most powerful catholic to sway his views on prolly the most important issue right now?

come on people think first

i bet the pope has a fiddler that goes right to the trash can for mail like this.....

[Fidei Defensor]

[quote]The new Pope's positions on these crucial issues pose a terrible danger to the health of millions of women and girls around the world and undermines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS,” Fox wrote.[/quote]

They need to look at the facts. How many condoms have they sent to africa over the past years? TONS. But what has it done? Nothing. AIDs is still there. Now look at the few countries that are advocating abstinence, their HIV rates are falling.

[quote]What might stop the spread of AIDS? The Catholic moral teaching regarding human sexual behavior, say condom critics who are working on the front lines of AIDS treatment and prevention.

"Condoms don't work," said Dr. George Mulcaire-Jones. "In addition to doing little physically to prevent the transmission of HIV, condoms exacerbate the problem by promoting promiscuity in places where that behavior is most deadly at this point in time."

Past efforts to end the epidemic, headed mostly by the United Nations, have involved shipping millions of condoms to plagued regions. In the 1990s, the U.S. Agency for International Development distributed more than 200 million condoms to AIDS-plagued nations and the problem only worsened.

[/quote][quote]"In Uganda, where there has been an intensive AIDS prevention program centered on abstinence, HIV among 15- to 19-year-olds has dropped from 25% of the population in that age group to 9%," Mulcaire-Jones said.

"During the same period in neighboring Kenya, Malawi and Zambia — where AIDS prevention involved condom distribution and no change in sexual behavior patterns — there has been no drop in new infections," he said. "Why? Because in ideal, perfect conditions — in which the condoms are worn properly and are in perfect condition — condoms fail one in 10 times. So in perfect conditions it's not much of a guarantee, and they're seldom used in perfect conditions. Meanwhile, they send a message that sexual behavior patterns should continue on as they always have."
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[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They don't even know what they're dealing with...

[azaelia]

*imagines that PP is a fly buzzing around her head, lands on the desk*


SMACK!