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Brazilian singer blasts Vatican in condom dispute
Reuters ^ | December 6, 2005 | Angus MacSwan

Posted on 12/06/2005 10:33:19 AM PST by NYer

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Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in this file photo taken July 9, 2005. Mercury, who was banned from performing in a Vatican Christmas concert, said on Monday she was outraged at a Vatican claim that she had threatened to promote condom use during the show. (Arc-Dominic Favre/Reuters)
1 posted on 12/06/2005 10:33:20 AM PST by NYer
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To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...


2 posted on 12/06/2005 10:33:35 AM PST by NYer (“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
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To: NYer

I didn't see this is a good fit for a Vatican Christmas concert anyway. Anyway, our Pope is more of a classical person anyway. ;-)


3 posted on 12/06/2005 10:40:59 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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She's no Bebel Gilberto, Fernanda Porto, or Cibelle. Mercury is called the queen of the axe music.


4 posted on 12/06/2005 10:44:31 AM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: NYer

Who else performed at the Montreux "Jazz" Festival? Madonna?


5 posted on 12/06/2005 10:59:54 AM PST by wideawake
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To: NYer
In other news Scientist blames Vatican dogma for AIDS pandemic
6 posted on 12/06/2005 11:10:10 AM PST by marshmallow
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Funny how those who are determined to live in immoral ways get mad at the church for not blessing their actions.

Sex outside of marriage is wrong, the church teaches. "Contraception leads to the downfall of the family and all the other reasons the church says NO." says the church.

"But people are going to have sex outside of marriage anyway." says the world. "If you tell them to use condoms, we could cut down on disease."

"We tell them to do what is right." says the church.

"It's your fault that people are dying," says the world. "Because you won't bless the sacred condom, they get aids."

"Aids happens because people live immoral lives, against the teachings of God," says the church. "We can't bless what is against the teachings of God."

"It's still your fault," says the world. "If only you would bless the sacred condom, then all those people who are having sex like they are outside of marriage, would use condoms and not get AIDS because the church said so."


The question people like this refuse to consider is, if people are willing to sin by having sex outside of marriage, what difference would the church's sanctions on contraception have on whether to use condoms or not?



7 posted on 12/06/2005 11:14:38 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Love it!


8 posted on 12/06/2005 11:33:45 AM PST by NYer (“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
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:-) about my writing.

:-( about the reality of this type of thinking.


9 posted on 12/06/2005 11:54:58 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: NYer

She's hot.


10 posted on 12/06/2005 12:39:39 PM PST by JohnnyZ (Veterans' Day. Enough said.)
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Not really. Besides, she's got man-hands. Call me old fashioned but a lady's fingernails should not be as short (or shorter) than a guy's. Eh, just a quirk of mine I suppose. *shrug*


11 posted on 12/06/2005 12:46:03 PM PST by Romish_Papist (Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.)
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Besides, she's got man-hands.

She has hands???

Now, nobody go getting all offended, I'm just a single guy showing healthy heterosexual interest :)

12 posted on 12/06/2005 1:00:10 PM PST by JohnnyZ (Veterans' Day. Enough said.)
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Now don't you be going all like my teenager who I have to poke in the ribs at church cause "She's so hot" pops out of his mouth at inappropriate times....


13 posted on 12/06/2005 1:05:57 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: JohnnyZ

Touché. But seriously, she's not very good looking. She's got that annoying Chelsea Clinton smile in that photo you posted. Sure, she has other ample... assets... but man-hands and a Chelsea Clinton smile make me run in fear.


14 posted on 12/06/2005 1:12:19 PM PST by Romish_Papist (Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.)
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To: JohnnyZ

Any "Christian" running around promoting condoms for queers is so hot she is likely to be contagious


15 posted on 12/06/2005 2:47:41 PM PST by bornacatholic
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To: JohnnyZ

You should be avoiding the near occasion of sin and heeding Matthew 5:28.


16 posted on 12/06/2005 2:58:19 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: bornacatholic

Valid point!


17 posted on 12/06/2005 2:59:56 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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Who else performed at the Montreux "Jazz" Festival? Madonna?

You would be surprised at the non-jazz acts the let in.

18 posted on 12/06/2005 3:07:55 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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I don't care how hot she is ... somebody, somewhere, has had it up to here with her $#!+.
19 posted on 12/06/2005 3:41:30 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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Besides, from the looks of the stuff she wears, it would only cause even more confusion at the concert. Who wants to hear the Italians stage-whispering: "Lei e una butana!"?


20 posted on 12/06/2005 5:48:53 PM PST by magisterium
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