As I see it, those old white guys in Rome got together and decided there was a crisis on American shores with those pesky Nuns who help the sick and the poor and the Girl Scouts who sell cookies and help girls become women. The crisis is--- these women are not obeying them. The objectionable behavior of the Nuns is not spending enough energy combating a woman's right to govern her own body and these same Nuns are loving and caring for all people, poor, rich, gay, straight. Such sins! The Girl Scout's crime is they are affiliated with Doctors without Borders and Oxfam who support, are you ready?, family planning. Wow, really evil. Hmm, this might have something to do with women, wouldn't you say?
What is evil is hatred against any group of people [women, gays, transsexuals come to mind] and withholding help from people when help is available. Specifically, I'm talking about not allowing condomns for the Catholic men in South American and Africa where the men are inadvertently killing their wives by infecting them with AIDS. One simple little piece of rubber could curb this misery and destruction of human life. Hey, isn't that indirectly murder? However, rubbers would interfer with the Church's philosophy: "we must make more babies", desired or not. What sense does that make? I am positive Jesus Christ never dictated how a woman should manage her body. I believe his only dictum is "love one another".
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And all of this so called crisis ignores the real problems our world is facing: starvation; people dying of AIDS; sexual, and/or physical abuse of children; greed running amok; climate change...Where is the Church on these serious and important issues? Listen to the silence.
As far as I know these Nuns have committed no crimes against humanity. They have served and waited on the whims of the Church, always the underlings. How have they been rewarded for their devotion and their diligence? They have no pensions and they weren't allowed to pay into Social Security so in essence they are like the lilies of the field, they have nothing and they have been improverished. Now they are being censured.
Impoverishment is certainly not true for the priests. They have pensions and places to live until they die. They have Social Security. Interestingly and by contrast, a few of them have almost successfully bankrupt certain parishes throughout the United States with the lawsuits over their pedofilia. And, I might add, all of this was routinely covered up by the hierarchy of the Church. That is a crisis.
Sincerely, if you thought long and hard on a subject that was sure to ignite indignation among the female population of the Catholic Church you couldn't pick two better subjects than the Nuns and the Scouts. I bet Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert could have a ball with this. Perhaps that is precisely what the Church is doing. They want to piss off the women. They saw how successfully the Republican Party has been with it's woman hating campaign and they decided, "what the heck, if it's good enough for Rush, it's good enough for us."
Go to confession oh holy fathers! It is not too late to redeem yourselves and apologize to these good women, make amends! Or like with the misogynist Rush, we won't buy your wares and we will cancel all of your advertizing. Because you know, deep down, the greatest danger to the church is--- to have a church that no one comes to.
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