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United Nations Scolds Vatican: Support Abortion, Gay Rights and Contraception
The Gateway Pundit ^ | Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/06/2014 1:09:26 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o

A recent United Nations report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child called on the Catholic Church to support abortion, gay rights and contraception. The committee also urged Russia to repeal its “gay propaganda” law.

A United Nations committee is coming under fire today from a British pro-life group that says it is attacking the Catholic Church and pressuring it to support abortion.

Officials with the England-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) say the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child overstepped its mandate in its pro-abortion attack on the Catholic Church. SPUC is recognised officially by the UN as a non-governmental organization (NGO), and provides most of the pro-life lobbying efforts at the UN institutions in New York and Geneva.

SPUC was responding to a report published today by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which attacked the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion under the guise of a critique of the Church’s handling of child sex abuse cases. As SPUC informed LifeNews by email, the UN report, among similar things, recommends that the Catholic Church identify “circumstances under which access to abortion services can be permitted” (section 55) and “overcome[s] all the barriers and taboos surrounding adolescent sexuality that hinder their access to sexual and reproductive information, including on family planning and contraceptives” (section 57a).

Today the Vatican blasted back at the UN committee. FOX News reported:

The Vatican blasted back at a UN-authored Rights of Children report, saying its criticism of the church’s stand on homosexuality is driven by critics of the church’s “non-negotiable” teachings.

The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, whose members have included such nations as Saudi Arabia, Syria, Uganda and Thailand,accused the Vatican Wednesday of “systematically” adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on pedophiles and bishops who concealed their crimes.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the head of the Holy See’s delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, told Vatican Radio that non-governmental organizations which favor gay marriage probably influenced the committee to reinforce an “ideological line” in the report. He did not note the irony of nations like Syria, which has used poison gas on children, Uganda, where kids have been forced to fight, kill and die in wars and Thailand, which has long been accused of tolerating a child sex trade, having served on the committee, which currently consists of representatives from 18 nations.

The UN report also severely criticized the Holy See for its attitudes toward homosexuality, contraception and abortion and said it should change its own canon law to ensure children’s rights and their access to health care are guaranteed.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholic; homosexualagenda; prolife; un
Ironically, the original U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1959, I believe?) stated that, due to their immaturity, children require special legal protection "before, as well as after birth."

Now it's all about abortion, contraceptives for adolescents ("children's rights and access to health care"), and LGBT training ("comprehensive sexual health and education") for children as early as state and international authorities can get their filthy hands on them.

Because "the Vatican" (by which they mean the Catholic Church) steadfastly objects to this entire sexual agenda, it serves the U.N. sex-campaigners' purposes best to simply mount a global campaign to undermine the moral influence of the Catholic Church.

And the media of course, serve the U.N. agenda all the way.

1 posted on 02/06/2014 1:09:26 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o
United Nations Scolds ...

To quote Obi Wan Kenobi: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

2 posted on 02/06/2014 1:16:13 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I think I read somewhere that the pharisees “scolded” Jesus.


3 posted on 02/06/2014 1:16:37 PM PST by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: KarlInOhio

Suggested reply: “Get thee behind me, Satan !”


4 posted on 02/06/2014 1:26:11 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C?d)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Is the UN run by a bunch of abortionist queer pedophiles?

It would seem so ...


5 posted on 02/06/2014 1:30:43 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: KarlInOhio

Was Saudi Arabia (and the rest of the muslim world) on that “scold list” too?


6 posted on 02/06/2014 1:35:23 PM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: KarlInOhio

That picture is great!!


7 posted on 02/06/2014 1:36:44 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Hmm. In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side." - Yoda)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades

WHOA!!! Wait a minute!!!

The Koran approves of this, Mohammad did it and it goes on EVERY DAY in Saudi Arabia!


8 posted on 02/06/2014 1:41:46 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

No. The Mooslims are part of the group attacking the Vatican.


9 posted on 02/06/2014 1:42:19 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

No. The Mooslims are part of the group attacking the Vatican.


10 posted on 02/06/2014 1:42:34 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“Their (Catholics) problem is not me and democrats, their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives, who are right to life, pro assault weapon, anti-gay, is that who they are? Because if that is who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York. Because that is not who New Yorkers are.” Governor Andrew Cuomo the Ugly Brother,aka Kennedy wife reject.


11 posted on 02/06/2014 1:44:32 PM PST by BilLies ("Will none rid me of this lying bastard ?")
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Scold the Saudis? Surely you jest. The Saudis (and other Islamic nations) are on the committee.

Members of the U.N. Children's Rights committee:

Ms. Agnes Akosua AIDOO, Ghana
Ms. Amal ALDOSERI (Vice-Chairperson), Bahrain
Ms. Aseil AL-SHEHAIL (Vice-Chairperson), Saudi Arabia
Mr. Peter GURÁN, Slovakia
Ms. Maria HERCZOG (Rapporteur), Hungary
Ms. Olga a. KHAZOVA, Russian Federation
Mr. Hatem KOTRANE, Tunisia
Mr. Gehad MADI, Egypt
Mr. Benyam Dawit MEZMUR (Vice-Chairperson), Ethiopia
Ms. Yasmeen MUHAMAD SHARIFF, Malaysia
Ms. Kirsten SANDBERG (Chairperson), Norway
Ms. Hiranthi WIJEMANNE (Vice-Chairperson), Sri Lanka

12 posted on 02/06/2014 2:05:18 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Hmm. In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side." - Yoda)
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To: NorthMountain

Muslims, they can do anything and the pedophile moh amm the scam sez,,, its ok.


13 posted on 02/06/2014 2:06:34 PM PST by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

... I don’t see any children on that committee....


14 posted on 02/06/2014 10:10:35 PM PST by FutureRocketMan (Santorum/Perry or Perry/Santorum 2016 Rand Paul's pretty good too.)
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I wonder whether there's even any parents. I doubt that professional U.N. diplomats have much time to spend with kids, you know?

On the other hand, there are parents out there who would buy this whole agenda. Nancy Pelosi, "mother of five"?

15 posted on 02/07/2014 6:27:05 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I do not see a reference to the right of the female child to be free of genital mutilation in muslim countries.


16 posted on 02/08/2014 4:42:33 AM PST by matchgirl (An Ambassador is dead and Al Qaeda is alive.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I do not see a reference to the right of the female child to be free of genital mutilation in muslim countries.


17 posted on 02/08/2014 4:42:34 AM PST by matchgirl (An Ambassador is dead and Al Qaeda is alive.)
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To: matchgirl

True. There are huge holes in this U.N. Statement-— HUGE ones.


18 posted on 02/08/2014 11:29:49 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the Head, into Christ.")
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