Posted on 05/04/2005 9:49:58 AM PDT by Thorin
New York, May. 04, 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Pope Benedict XVI must be encouraged to “reconsider his dangerously outdated stances on birth control, abortion and sexuality in order to help move the Catholic Church into the 21st century,” reads a memo issued by campaign manager Eve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.
Ping.
Wow the disease is catching!
Campaign? Do they want to defeat him when he runs for reelection? Ha ha.
Next, Planned Parenthood will be demanding that the Pope replace the Mass with "The Vagina Monologues".
I guess her supporters didn't realize this.
Perhaps she would also like to tell her supporters what the failure rate is for condoms. That might be news for them too.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Mmm hmm. Yup, Planned Parenthood, the symbol and personification of much that is evil, wants to instruct or influence the new Pope, to get him off his old fashioned moral stance. Which morality is the only bulwark against complete social breakdown leading to barbarism, anarchy, and totalitarianism.
Like flies into a fire. It's almost entertaining to watch, if it wasn't so horrible.
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
Sounds like a typical Clinton line.......
This organization really is a waste of oxygen!
Do condoms really prevent the spread of HIV and AIDs? Can anyone back that up with reasonably reproducible statistics?
Time for a little excommunication for those associated with Planned Barrenhood. Bishop Bruskewitz has already shown the way on this issue. May many of his brother bishops follow suit.
Thank Goodness our Holy Father was one of the first to realize that the thinking of the leftists was not forward thinking, but that it was ancient thinking, very ancient indeed.
Well, those animals are going to do it anyway, so why not teach them about condoms?
Barking Moonbats are parade, film at 11!
I know, lets re-invent the Catholic Church. Oooo, what fun we shall have, playing dress up like the pope!
I can fight with my sisters and brothers but...don't let anyone else get in there. :) I understand.
Stupid is not the word for these people.
Bring the church into the 21st Century by condoning ABORTION?
Bring the church into the 21st Century by condoning ABORTION?
So MURDER is OK in the 21st Century? MURDER we're tallking here. Ripping an unborn baby limb from limb or puncturing its' little head as it emerges into this cruel world. Oh yeah, that's bringing it into the 21st Century.
Just when you think people can't get any sicker you read trash such as this.
Clowns one and all....
These people aren't looking for a church, they just want a support group.
If the Pope did all of this B.S., then the Curch would just beome a bunch of Unitarians.
Uh huh, you want a man who believes that says what he believes is God's will to change what he's saying? You're asking him to deny God for the sake of sexual convenience. Either that, or you're presuming that the views of an omnipotent, omniscient being will change just because you want them to.
****, the stupidity of people can sometimes surprise even such a hardened cynic as myself.
Yes. This is just like the Devil telling God to reconsider his "backward" views on moral issues.
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