Catholic League In A Twist
CATHOLIC LEAGUE for Religious and Civil Rights
Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?
A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.
Oooooo! Ooooo! Shocking! Offensive! I’m totally freaked out by this!!
Not.
First, let me explain that the reason the Catholic League has this and other naughty anti-Catholic talk on their web site is to prove that a couple of former John Edwards campaign people really don’t like Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular.
What it proves to me is that religion still has the power to get people all riled up, even people who identify themselves as non-religious. Especially people who identify themselves as non-religious. And it also proves to me that religious people are spending way too much time online looking for stuff that offends them. How about we all get back to the business of feeding the poor, huh?
Yes, the Catholic Church is against abortion and most forms of birth control. This is one of the major bitches of Amanda Marcotte (Pandagon) and Melissa McEwan (Shakespeare’s Sister). Big deal. Big fucking deal. Does anybody (besides, apparently Marcotte and McEwan) really believe that’s stopping the majority of Americans who identify themselves as Catholic from using contraceptives? If Catholic women who’ve had abortions feel guilty about them it’s not because they’re worried about the fetus’ soul going to hell. It’s because no matter how you dress it up, abortion is still about ending a potential life. And that’s kind of sad — even if you’re not in any way prepared to have a child. People feel guilty about that. And they may feel guilty about not following the rules set forth by the religion they claim to be a member of. Concerns about limbo and hell are probably the last thing to enter a Catholic woman’s mind.
But I digress — and none of what I just wrote will make much sense until you read the Catholic League’s excerpts.
Here’s my main point: Why do people even care about this shit? Marcotte and McEwan’s anti-Christian ranting is tiresome and silly. Other people believe what they’ll believe. I may think their beliefs are stupid but so what? It’s as ridiculous for the Catholic League to get all twisted about Marcotte and McEwan as it is for Marcotte and McEwan to waste so many electrons blogging about how much they hate Catholicism.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on February 24, 2007 under Uncategorized
Amen!
I’m often puzzled when people complain about the militancy of any religious/non-religious group group by being just as militant. Just don’t knock on my door with your religious tracts and everything will be ok…
As a reader of Shakespeare’s Sister, I can verify that McEwan is not anti-Catholic. She will speak out when the Pope or another Church official comes out with a statement on her particular main issues. She feels when they enter the political arena, then they are knocking on her door with their religious tracts, basically.
And that goes for more than just the Pope — other denominations are covered when they denounce LGBT and women’s issues in the public arena, too. She doesn’t care too much what they do in their own homes and churches (although she may not like it, she has no say in it), but when they start pushing to get laws enacted that will affect her and her friends, then she speaks up and she chooses a strong, angry voice on her blog. (She writes in The Guardian U.K. and elsewhere in different voices; it’s a thing writers do.)
As a loosey-goosey Episcopalian, I find myself at odds much much more with many of the regular commenters on her blog than I am with her.
Religious fundamentalism of any stripe, Christian, Muslim, or whatever, gets pretty short shrift there, and I’m all for that. Fundies do more damage to religion than any atheists ever have, as far as I’m concerned.
I can’t speak for Marcotte. I don’t read her stuff.
Abortions should only be done for a person who is carryng a seriously ill, or disbled child.
Its not fair that these people who stupidly get pregnant when they dont want a child, what happened to CONDOMS, contraceptive pill or even COMMON FUCKING SENSE!!!???
If you dont want children then there’s no need to be a murderer andd kill them before they even hve a chance to live and have a mind of their own.
As for the religion part its a load of shit, if you want a child born out of wedlock then why should the child have to be an outcast of God. I think people need to take a look at the bible and read that God loves his children NO MATTER WHAT. thats my say.
if anyone wants to back my opinion or attempt to flush it down with there opinion, you are more than welcome to email me at marianadinejones@hotmail.co.uk