Posted on 04/27/2006 5:58:30 PM PDT by wagglebee
MADRID, April 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International is shocked that the governing socialists in Spain have put forward legislation to grant great apes ‘human rights’. The same government which stripped from unborn human children the right to life and permits destructive research on human embryos, has put forward legislation to grant great apes the rights the rights to life, freedom and to not being tortured, according to a report by Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Environment Minister Cristina Narbona, protested that the government was not giving apes human rights. “We are not talking about granting human rights to great apes,' but about 'protecting (their) habitat, avoiding their ill-treatment and their use in various circus activities,” she explained.
The legislation would prohibit the 'enslaving' of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and bonobos.
Observers might be excused for thinking that the move by the vigorously anti-Catholic socialist government of Spain was intended as a dig at the Vatican. Recent history shows a propensity for in-your-face gestures pointed at Rome including, particularly, the abolition of traditional marriage, and refusing to allow judges to opt out of witnessing homosexual unions for religious reasons.
The idea of “human” rights for great apes is possibly a stab at what secularists regard as “retrograde” Christian ideas about the hierarchical nature of creation with man, as the image of God, at the top.
While the socialists are passing legislation intended as rude gestures to the Church, Pope Benedict continues to warn against the extreme secularization of Europe and the looming economic and social consequences of the plummeting birth rate.
Currently, the birth rate in once-fervently Catholic Spain stands among the lowest in Europe. A recent article appearing in the UK political magazine, the Spectator, suggested that a culturally and historically European Spain will soon find itself contracepted and aborted out of existence.
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You've GOT to see this!
It reads a lot like humour, but knowing how wacky Zappetero is, I know it is probably truth. Still it warrants a good (bitter)-laugh and so I put it under the "Humor" section.
Ping!
Will they be able to vote???
No matter. Given their low birthrate, the Spaniards -- as will the rest of Continental Europe -- will once again find themselves ruled by the Moors. Shari'a will be the law of the land and all of this 'progressive' thinking will come to an end.
No matter how forward-thinking your mode of living, no matter how advanced your technology, if you're not carrying your genes into the next generation, your kind will become extinct.
And look who is most prolific.
Yeah, I'm gonna need a translation.
Hmmmmm.....looks like Planet of the Apes was prophetic....
I don't know about voting but I think I see inter-species marriage on the horizon.
If gorillas actually are as bright and even-tempered as what I read indicates then there is a totally simple and elegant way to take them off the endangered species list: teach them ALL to sign the way Koko does and allow them to earn their livings the same way all the rest of us do. They're typically five to ten times as strong through the arms and shoulders as we are and could be put to good use any number of ways.
That way THEY could do the jobs Americans don't want to do.
I think this is...er, bananas!
Can countries qualify for the "Darwin Award"? If they can, Spain is definitely a contender.
unionize them !
Apparently they've already been elected to run the country.
I ain't never had me a monkee.
Considering that the people of Spain may one day wake-up and try to vote the socialists out of power, I can see the socialist dictator wannabes getting the apes to vote (socialist, of course).
After all, even using the dead and made-up names to vote didn't give the leftists in the US enough votes in 2004. Maybe apes will work for the Spanish leftists...
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