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A fool and their money are soon parted.
“Social justice” = Communism/Anti-Christian.
:: “One of the things that we see that we can do is to try to really stimulate that space.” ::
Just what Sandra Fluke was looking for, I suppose.
Some things just don’t add up.
It might seem that, more contraceptive research, etc. will reduce abortion, and reduce the need for abortion.
But then, we have seen what has happened since the ‘60s, when our culture was transformed in many ways.
One way the culture was transformed had to do with sex behavior. Traditional ideas of sex morality were thrown out, replaced by the idea that it’s okay to have sex outside marriage, any number of partners, any gender of partners.
Against this backdrop, we also have readily available birth control. We have some birth control such as condoms available over the counter, without prescription. Yet, the real world experience has been that the incidence of abortion and out of wedlock childbirth are both very high, at a time of readily available contraception.
So what’s really going on? We changed the culture so that it’s okay to have sex anytime. We also have readily available contraception so that those who want to have sex are not “punished”, as Barack Obama might say, with a baby, as a consequence of what they have done.
Perhaps the real problem is not a lack of birth control pills, but a lack of values, or a lack of any morality?
But then, to be good liberals, apparently we’re not supposed to view any issue in any moral context. So with this issue, we don’t talk about the morality of the sex outside marriage, instead we talk of how do we prevent unwanted consequences of sex. We take for granted that the sex behavior will happen, and how do we deal with the life problems created, after the fact.
Maybe we have our Mystery Woman, our Whore of Babylon? I always believed that she would be a real, human woman with the power to lead the whole world astray...
——“I had to wrestle with which pieces of religion do I use and believe in my life,——
Obviously poorly catechized. No notion of the teaching authority of the Church.
There is another aspect of this (beyond the Catholic issues presented) which Ms Gates is missing.
Since day one ‘overpopulation’ has been presented as a problem that is caused by women. By focussing her efforts on women and contraception, Ms. Gates is allying herself with this paradigm:
Population = problem
Controlling women = solution
This is VERY dangerous for women’s human rights, as we have witnessed in China. Ends-justify-the-means tactics ALWAYS go after the people in society with less status and fewer rights ... hence women and children are frequent targets.
The Gates Foundation has done good work the world over with many of their programs ... yet they are turning onto a very dangerous path for women.
There is also the issue of cultural imperialism which is being ignored.
So, there are other criticisms of Ms Gates’ approach beyond those found in Catholic doctrine.
All Leftists are utilitarians at heart. People are to be used to produce goods and wealth so their betters in government can bring about their utopian goals. People are disposable for the “common good.”
Christians live their lives by the standard Jesus set: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And you shall love your neighbor as you do yourself.”
This war between good and evil will go on until Jesus returns.
“contraception”
THAT makes a bad Catholic? Well, then, the author had better be prepared to label 99.9% of all Catholics as bad. My wife is Catholic and used contraception. So did her sisters and every female family member. I have never met a Catholic woman that didn’t.
When you have everything you want, then the problem becomes getting rid of the things you don’t want. She just thinks there are too many people and she wants to make them go away.
Melinda Gates - She screwed her boss Bill and became very rich.
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Evil Bitch, giving woman a choice and access where they may not have had one before.
Here’s a good video about the forces behind the corruptions of Catholicism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jABDBjlSzKE&feature=player_embedded
Within an hour of returning to her hotel, she received a message from some of those nuns. “It was fantastic,” she says, her eyes misting for a moment. “They said, ‘We’re all for you. We know this is a difficult issue to speak on, but we absolutely believe that you’re living under Catholic values.’ And it was just so heartening.”
Why do nuns need birth control?