Planned Parenthood Hires Chaplain to Combat Anti-Christian Criticism

LifeNews.com ^ | March 10, 2004 | Steven Ertelt

[WildReeling]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In an attempt to counter criticism that it's unyielding support of abortion runs counter to the Christian religious views of most Americans, Planned Parenthood has announced it has hired a national chaplain to advocate the "spiritual side" of abortion advocacy.

The national abortion business appointed Rev. Ignacio Castuera, senior pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church in the Watts community of Los Angeles, as its chaplain.

"His expertise in offering spiritual insight and guidance to the reproductive health movement is invaluable," Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt said.

The appointment is also an attempt by the abortion business to foster better relations with the Hispanic community, which is largely pro-life.

But that won't fly with Hispanic-Americans, Raimundo Rojas tells LifeNews.com.

[nickcarraway]

Try stopping abortions...

[Donaeus]

bttt

[sine_nomine]

Nothing new. I was a member of a denomination that prayed for abortion on demand, parading their piety on the steps of the state capitol.

The Methodists, Lutherans, and many other groups (Catholic included) are part of the Relgious Coalition for Abortion Rights. It is a religious right because no one knows when life begins. To ban abortion is to trample on their religious freedom. It is so obvious to brain-dead, pothead, self-involved narcissists.

[Sloth]

Hmmm... NAMBLA should probably retain a couple of pedo priests for the same reasons.

[redgolum]

Not all Lutherans or Catholics, but certanly some.

I am getting the feeling that there are some in the churches that HATE what the Bible says. What happened?

[Coleus]

thanks, how did I know it as probably a methodist minister before i scrolled up?

[BlkConserv]

LOL - Planned Abortionhood is a joke.

[Tabi Katz]

"Better relations with the Hispanic community" = more dead Hispanic babies. What god do these "clerics" pray to anyway, the god of child sacrifice?

[weegee]

I am getting the feeling that there are some in the churches that HATE what the Bible says. What happened?

70+ years of attempted socialist takeover of America.

The amoral don't care if they pervert the churches' stance on these issues. Either the flock will follow the new teachings or else the flock will abandon the church (even if we still believe in God).

Either way the church ceases to stand for anything. Socialists win.

[AMDG&BVMH]

"and many other groups (Catholic included) are part of the Relgious Coalition for Abortion Rights"

"Catholics for a Free Choice" is a left-funded foaming-at-the-mouth group, that the American Bischops have at least TWICE declared as NOT Catholic, and not permitted to claim that they are. (Does a lot of good, doesn't it? If Frances Kissling listened to the Catholic Church, the group would not exist in the first place!!~)

BTW, "sine nomine" is one of my favorite hymns "For all the saints who from their labor rest, their names, O Jesus, be for ever blessed . . . " (For All the Saints in English, "sine nomine" in Latin, don't know why . . )

[AMDG&BVMH]

ping

[Lancey Howard]

Next they can keep Keith Richards on standby as an organ donor.
These abortionists are nuts. Perfect Democrats.

[Xenalyte]

How did Don Novello get dragged into this? I didn't see his name in the article.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Mr. Silverback]

I remember the Nazi Party using priests and preachers to shill for them too, while sending the likes of Dietrich Bonnhoffer to imprisonment and death.

Richard Wurmbrand spent 14 years being tortured regularly in Romanian prisons because he spoke out for Christ at a Communist-run "conference of religions." Not long before Wurmbrand stepped up to the podium, the head Orthodox bishop for the country showed off his new vestments, with a stole that had the cross on one end and the hammer-and-sickle on the other. He said, "You must no longer call me 'Your Grace', but instead call me 'Comrade Bishop.'"

Wurmbrand's wife said to him, "Richard, get up there and wipe this spit off the face of Christ!"

This is no different. These people where the vestments of Christ's family and spew the lies of Hell, and they have even less excuse than the men Wurmbrand rebuked--No one is going to put a gun to their head if they take the pro-life side.

[T Minus Four]

If I hear the phrase "reproductive health" one more time, I'm going to projectile hurl.

[Walkingfeather]

as he counts out his 30 peices of silver...

[PallMal]

Margaret Sanger and her associates used this very same tactic of using reverands and preachers to promote abortion in the black communities.

Link

[Saundra Duffy]

They have to be kidding.

[NYer]

Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
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