PILGRIMS in Sydney for World Youth Day will be handed condoms in a protest against Pope Benedict XVI's opposition to contraception and homosexuality, demonstrators say.Words fail me.
The NoToPope Coalition, which includes members of Sydney's atheist, gay and environmental communities, will march to Randwick Racecourse on Saturday, July 19, alongside Catholic pilgrims who will be walking to Randwick after a pilgrimage trek across the Sydney Harbour Bridge that day.
The coalition is planning a rally at Taylor Square in Sydney's inner east, followed by the march to the racecourse, where Pope Benedict XVI is holding a prayer vigil that evening.
Coalition spokeswoman Rachel Evans said the "peaceful protest" would condemn the Pope's stance against condoms, homosexuality and abortion.
Related Link: Pope protesters to hand out condoms ~ News.com.au
First they want you to accept that homosexuality is normal in the name of tolerance, once that is done, then they want you to accept it into your lives and promote it as well.
ReplyDeleteTolerance, bah, that's just a useful cudgel to beat you into line with, nobody cares what you think, unless off course you think just like them.
Hi guys, just dropping in on some of the conservative/Christian blogs and seeing if they'll pretty much just copy the blog-post here, onto their own blogs...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.starstuddedsuperstep.com/2008/06/wear-t-shirt-save-life.html
I'm real keen to see the pro-life message promoted even more in NZ.
MK you need to reflect on your own last paragraph.
ReplyDeleteScrub, methinks you doth protest too much.
Andy, do you really think the world needs more of your kind?
And finally this, words possibly fail you because you realize that just by posting this you have aided and abetted the protesters.
Condoms are not just about homosexuality, they are also about preventing this sort of thing:
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And, if the rapist doesn't use a condome, he can always go to confession while his victim must be reminded every day of the rape.
If ever there was a case in favour of abortion, this is it.
But i don't expect a celibate man in a dress gives much thought to this member of his flock.
rhbee,
ReplyDeleteAnd finally this, words possibly fail you because you realize that just by posting this you have aided and abetted the protesters.
Er. No.
It was the crassness of it all. To be expected, really. But still, I find it surprising every time.
Fugley, your link doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteAnd "the man in a dress" has much more of a clue as to what is likely to save a person's soul rather than just make them comfortable in this life.
Try again lucy, just worked for me. Maybe the poles were on smoko.
ReplyDeleteThe Irish Times on the Polish pregnant Agata (23.06.2008)
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POLAND: A 14-YEAR-OLD Polish girl who became pregnant after being raped by a school friend has reportedly had an abortion, despite a vigorous campaign by anti-abortion campaigners.
Source: The Irish Times, June 23, 2008
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Abortion tug-of-war over schoolgirl raped in Poland
by DEREK SCALLY
A 14-YEAR-OLD pregnant girl, who says she was raped by a friend, is caught in the middle of a struggle between Poland's anti-abortion and pro-choice camps.
The schoolgirl, known only by the pseudonym Agata, is 11 weeks pregnant. Her mother says that several attempts to terminate the pregnancy - permitted under Poland's abortion laws because Agata is under-age - have failed because of interference by anti-abortion campaigners.
They say the girl is being pressured into terminating the pregnancy by her mother and pro-choice campaigners.
Agata says she was raped in April by a fellow student and the assault left her "covered in bruises" and pregnant. She went to a gynaecologist, who informed the police and Agata's mother. After discussing the matter, mother and daughter applied for permission to have an abortion. But when they went to the local hospital in Lublin, southeast of Warsaw, Agata was shown, alone, into a room where a priest was waiting.
The priest, Fr Krzysztof Podstawka, heads a local diocese organisation for single mothers called "Protection of Life".
Agata said that the gynaecologist returned later and said she would not perform the abortion.
The girl said that the doctor and priest dictated a letter to her in which she agreed to keep the baby. "I just said yes to everyone to have some peace," she told Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. When her mother heard what happened, she contacted the Women's Federation in Warsaw and, with their help, found a clinic willing to perform the abortion.
Waiting for them was Fr Podstawka and anti-abortion campaigners. Inside, doctors refused to perform the abortion, claiming they had been threatened.
Meanwhile, authorities in Lublin received complaints about the mother's role in the case and, on their return, put Agata into emergency child care.
"I want to be a mother when I grow up, not now," she told Gazeta Wyborcza . "Now all I want is my own mother." Already in her 11th week, Polish law only allows legal terminations until the 12th week.
Source: The Irish Times, June 18, 2008
here's another story, 11 y/o girl raped by uncle; why shouldn't she be allowed an abortion?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/26/1214073379526.html
Fugley, you seem to be promoting this idea that children should die for the sins of their fathers, when in fact the child and the mother are innocent until the mother takes the life of her own child. For that reason abortion should be denied to victims of rape.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe that anyone could condemn an 11 year old child to childbirth. Isn't it enough that she has been raped, without forcing her to remember that every day she is pregnant, every day sh has to be a "mother". And how can an 11 year old be a mother?
ReplyDeletefugley, so it's easier for you to believe that it's in the child's best interests to have her own child killed? Better yet, why not kill them both? That way both the baby and the girl would be out of their misery. Death is the only answer, is it not?
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