Posted on 12/08/2013 10:02:18 AM PST by IbJensen
Nelson Mandela’s death on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at age 95, triggered a tsunami of praise and accolades across the world — from politicians, the media, Hollywood, and even the Pope.
In a telegram to South African President Jacob Zuma, Pope Francis paid tribute to Nelson Mandela, praising Mandela for his “steadfast commitment … in promoting the human dignity of all the nation’s citizens and in forging a new South Africa built on the firm foundations of non-violence, reconciliation and truth”.
Alas, the unborn are not included in “all the citizens” of South Africa whose “human dignity” Mandela promoted.
ohn Henry-Westen writes for LiveSiteNews, Dec. 6, 2013:
The death of South African former President Nelson ‘Madiba’ Rolihlahla Mandela on Thursday has led to an outpouring of glowing praise for the man most known for ending apartheid – a system of racial segregation. However, pro-life leaders have warned that praise from Christian leaders is inappropriate given Mandela’s role in bringing abortion-on-demand and homosexual “marriage” to South Africa.
According to official statistics, nearly a million unborn children have been killed in South Africa since President Mandela signed legislation in 1996 permitting abortion on demand two years after taking office. Same-sex ‘marriage’ was legalized in 2006, with Mandela having supported it long before its passage.
In the face of praise for Mandela coming even from Catholic leaders all over the world, Paul Tuns, the editor of the Canadian pro-life newspaper The Interim, wrote, “A little balance is necessary in our reaction to the man who fought one injustice, but helped institute another.”
Similarly England’s John Smeaton, President of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) commented on his blog saying, “It is absolutely vital that Catholic leaders do not allow themselves to becomerespecters of persons, swept away by personality cults. Catholic leaders have a duty to stand up to public figures with anti-life and anti-family records, however praiseworthy their record may be on other issues.”
[...] It was 1996 when Mandela signed into law one of the world’s most pro-abortion laws. Passage of the “Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Bill” was assured since Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) refused its members a free vote on the issue of providing state-funded abortion on demand.
The same year, Mandela’s new constitution made South Africa the first country to place “sexual orientation” alongside race and religion as a restricted grounds for discrimination – something that paved the way for homosexual ‘marriage’ a decade later.
Smeaton quotes from a book of quotations from Mandela noting his statement on abortion: “Women have the right to decide what they want to do with their bodies.” In addition to his promotion of abortion, homosexuality, contraception and close ties to Communism, Smeaton notes Mandela’s formation of ‘The Elders” as a cause for concern.
In 2007, Mandela announced ‘The Elders’ as a global council of retired world leaders who would give behind the scenes advice and direction to government officials and rulers around the world. The proposal was received by pro-life leaders as being of great concern since its membership formed a ‘who’s who of the pro-abortion and pro-population-control movements.”
While during his life, Mandela denied being part of the communist party despite his friendly interaction with communist world leaders, the African National Congress revealed today that Mandela was in fact a high-ranking member of the Communist Party.
“Madiba was also a member of the South African Communist Party, where he served in the Central Committee,” said the ANC release.
Picky, picky, picky. . . .
A person can be pro-choice, pro-gay and pro-communist and still be a good person. Whatever his reasons, Mandela chose not to rule as a despot, and like Washington, to leave office after six years. he also chose to leave Winnie, of course, which is further testament to his moral character.
To the headline: so he was a democrat then.
Hence the worshipful slobbering in the MSM.
As another freeper already pointed out, If apartheid was so evil, they'd have capped his ass the first time he was arrested. (Or maybe given him a necklace with tires and gas.)
Oh wait - that was HIS party that did that.
I suppose technically that can be right, at least to outward appearances. However the statement suggests that one can support policies and practices that call for and have have been shown to result in mass murder of millions of innocents, before and after birth, and that are designed by those whose goal is to totally destroy the one proven foundation of stable society - marriage - and still be a good person.
To outward appearances, at least.
Africa also has their 47%
Mandela's "golden cage" is in sharp contrast with the treatment given by his comrade, Fidel Castro, to Cuban political prisoners.
No wonder Mr. Obama and his lovely wife are headed to the funeral in all haste, huh?
“A person can be pro-choice, pro-gay and pro-communist and still be a good person.”
You mean just like Che Guevarra, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot,
and Uncle Joe Stalin? (not to mention the brilliant intellectual geniuses who have run re-education camps?)
Just saying.
IMHO
But Diktatur Obama has ordered that all flags in the nation must be lowered to half staff for a foreign leader. Well, we happen to be replacing our flag, due to wear, this weekend; and we find that we need to also replace the rope. And there is a blizzard out there. So, although we have the rope and the flag, it won't be hoisted today because God has sent a blizzard. If it's nice tomorrow, we may have time to replace the rope and raise the flag. By then, we'll probably have forgotten about stopping half staff...
Where does Obama get the power to order civilian flags to drop to half staff, anyway? And for a foreigner, no less. Did anybody lower the flag for Maggie Thatcher?
They are headed to the PRE-funeral.
Will they be tail-gating from Air Force One?
You and I are vastly outnumbered here, and I for one could care less - “judge not, lest ye be judged”.
I choose to follow the Latin phrase “de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est” (about the dead, nothing should be said unless it’s something good).
In many cases, that means saying nothing.
One who is in possession of a functioning brain has to admit that the transfer of power in South Africa to a gaggle of communist enthusiasts resulted in calamity.
What I find especially objectionable is that this 95-year-old is being treated as though he’s on a fast track to sainthood. Margaret Thatcher’s passing was barely mentioned in the MSM. This man was a communist terrorist thug in his early years. Whether he was repentant or not is beyond the point entirely. He gladly turned control of the government over to another communist.
I don’t intend for the term ‘White Hut’ to be anything than what it is: an indictment of the phony, anti-America scum that Barry Soetoro is. The White House needs to be renamed until his sorry arse is ejected.
I don’t know what side of the fence you’re on and I don’t care.
That’s denying people the right to know the truth and keep history accurate.
In this case with so much hullabaloo, the truth seems appropriate.
Whatever your feelings about MLK, he preached and practiced non-violence. Mandela practiced violence.
Please name some...
FMCDH(BITS)
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