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ANTI-CATHOLIC GROUP BLAMES BISHOPS FOR AIDS
Catholic League ^
| 11-30-01
| Bill Donohue
Posted on 11/30/2001 11:24:59 AM PST by Notwithstanding
November 30, 2001
ANTI-CATHOLIC GROUP BLAMES BISHOPS FOR AIDS
Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is launching a global campaign that seeks to change the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality. The group wants to end what it calls “the Catholic bishops’ ban on condoms.” The ad reads as follows: “Catholic people care. Do our bishops? Because the bishops ban condoms, innocent people die.”
Frances Kissling, president of CFFC, says “The Vatican and the world’s bishops bear significant responsibility for the death of thousands of people who have died from AIDS.”
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, commented as follows on the latest attack by Kissling:
“The media need to know the following about CFFC:
· It has no members
· It wouldn’t exist without the largesse of the Ford Foundation and other elites who hate the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality
· Its president, Frances Kissling, long ago excommunicated herself from the Catholic Church for illegally operating abortion clinics overseas
· One of Kissling’s longtime associates, Marjorie Reiley Maguire, has testified that none of those active in CFFC attend Mass and that the group is profoundly “anti-woman”
· Kissling has expressly stated (in a Mother Jones interview) that her goal is to “overthrow” the Catholic Church
· Catholic bishops have twice condemned the group for falsely posturing itself as Catholic
Regarding Kissling’s latest tirade, suffice it to say that the bishops have found a way to stop the spread of AIDS: practice restraint. And remember what the Catholic League says: only fools think condoms are foolproof.”
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To: Notwithstanding
GROUP BLAMES BISHOPS FOR AIDSGay bishops, of course.
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:26:24 AM PST
by
ppaul
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Chastity-Is-The-Only-Solusiton-to-end-AIDS Bump
To: Notwithstanding
Let's write some more headlines using this groups "logic" - should be fun:
Rosie gains weight, blames spoons
Clinton caught with intern, blames thong underwear manufacturer
Liberals caught lying, blame rational thought
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:29:34 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Notwithstanding
OK, so they say people follow the Church's teaching when it comes to condoms, but not when it comes to extra-marital sex? Idiots.
To: Notwithstanding
That sounds like "pick and choose" religion to me. If those people were living by all of the tenets of the Catholic faith, they would never need a condom to "hopefully" prevent STDs.
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:33:01 AM PST
by
JudyB1938
To: freedomcrusader
Exactamundo - as if the dead people were simultaneously concerned about following the sexual teaching of the church regarding condoms while engaging in extra-marital sex?
To: JudyB1938
If those people were living by all of the tenets of the Catholic faith, they would never need a condom to "hopefully" prevent STDs.There is always the case of the innocent spouse infected by a their promiscuous mate. Yet condums are not the solution here either.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:36:20 AM PST
by
harpseal
To: Notwithstanding
Ok, let me see if I understand this, because the Roman Catholic Church bans condoms, along with other forms of contraceptives, they are to blame for men contracting AIDS from other men via acts of sodomy, a pracitice also condemned by the Church, without a condom.
Yeah.
And they wonder why people laugh.
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:36:57 AM PST
by
FormerLib
To: FormerLib
If you want to see more hate from the left go here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/581184/posts
To: Notwithstanding
Well, i'll stick my neck out here. A case can certainly be made that Catholic bishops, by speaking out against birth control, are promoting unwanted pregnancies and the transmission of disease in those that would seek to be good Catholics. It then follows that the Catholic bishops aren't working towards the greater good. Christopher Hitchens makes just such an argument in his book about Mother Teresa, The Missionary Position.
To: Notwithstanding
One of Kissling’s longtime associates, Marjorie Reiley Maguire, has testified that none of those active in CFFC attend Mass and that the group is profoundly “anti-woman”
Sounds to me as though Marjorie Reiley Maguire is an ex-associate.
To: Notwithstanding
Am I the only one who see the juicy irony in the fact that a group called Catholics for a Free Choice blames others for an individual's HIV status?
To: Notwithstanding
Francis Quissling is back I see. Apparently she wasn't getting much press in her jihad to get the Vatican booted from the UN. This should keep her in the news for a couple months. Any bets on what anti-Church cause she tries next?
The women "priest" cause? Gay "catholics?" I think I bet she will find something in the ecumensism field, perhaps by forming an alliance with other "highly respected" Christian groups that favor abortion etc. to demonstrate how silly it is that we all still fight over that quaint old doctrine stuff. Whatever, I'm sure it will be in the news.
patent
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:40:50 AM PST
by
patent
To: Senator Pardek
No.
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:41:21 AM PST
by
patent
To: Notwithstanding
Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is launching a global campaign that seeks to change the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality. The group wants to end what it calls “the Catholic bishops’ ban on condoms.” The ad reads as follows: “Catholic people care. Do our bishops? Because the bishops ban condoms, innocent people die.” Hmmm .... guess they must have skipped that "Thou shalt not commit adultery" part of their Catholic classes.
PC retards
To: Notwithstanding; patent
I am trying to understand how a person who follows the Church's teaching on sexuality can catch AIDS. Sex between 2 married, faithful people can not produce AIDS. What they seem to be saying is that people do NOT follow the church's teachings on sexuality and they caught AIDS in the process so it is the Church's fault. Huh?
To: Egregious Philbin
A case can certainly be made that Catholic bishops, by speaking out against birth control, are promoting unwanted pregnancies Well ... barring rape, no one is forced into a situation where one CAN get pregnant.
To: Egregious Philbin
A case can certainly be made that Catholic bishops, by speaking out against birth control, are promoting unwanted pregnancies and the transmission of disease in those that would seek to be good Catholics.
A case could be made? Are you going to argue it somehow? You’ve just made a statement, you haven’t provided any facts or reasoning to go with it. Unless you do so you certainly haven’t made any such case, and it would be impossible to discuss your view on it.
It then follows that the Catholic bishops aren't working towards the greater good.
Not really, you need to do more then just state it here too. If their actions really did promote some unwanted pregnancies, but prevented others, would that be working towards the common good? If it helped some souls get to heaven, would that? You need to provide more if you want to make that argument. Otherwise only people with a bias against the Catholic Church, something I am not accusing you of having, would accept your statement as true on the mere basis of the statement.
patent +AMDG
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:46:06 AM PST
by
patent
To: Notwithstanding
AL GORE BLAMES BALLOT BOX MANUFACTURING COMPANY FOR ELECTION FAILURE
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posted on
11/30/2001 11:46:21 AM PST
by
Cleburne
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