🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:29:48 GMT, Mountain Goat <rmgoatNO@SPAMshaw.ca>
wrote:

[snip]

IG:
==>>		Fortunately, genies are not easily forced back into
==>>		bottles and, with the long-overdue death of the
==>>		hyper-conservative, woman-hating jerkoff in the
==>>		Vatican known as John Paul, there is a window
==>>		of opportunity for the Catholic church to start to
==>>		make amends for its centuries of criminality by
==>>		finally recognizing women as full-fledged human
==>>		beings.

==>OK Ivan the pope had a blind spot about women. There are other issues
==>where he could have made changes, like marriage for priests, where
==>there is no doctrinal reason not to do it. However I think you are way
==>over the top here in equating him with a true misogynist like
==>SunDunce.

		Why?

		Here was a guy who rejected all sexual contact with
		women (both for himself and his male employees)
		and spent his life surrounded by men;  a
		guy who strongly reaffirmed the inferior status of
		women in the cult he ran (although there never was
		a real theological reason to do so) and perpetuated
		the cult's brutal prohibition against birth control
		that, although senseless, ensured that millions of
		women the world over procreated themselves into
		miserable poverty, both for themselves and their
		children.  His tireless battle against condom use
		helped spread AIDS across Africa, and was a crime
		against humanity.

		If these are not evidence of a bone-deep misogyny,
		M.G., I'm at a loss to imagine what might be.

		Fuck the Pope.  If there does, indeed, turn out to be
		a hell, he's in it.

		As for Lauzon, he's just nuts.



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The danger to the life and well-being of children
increases in direct proportion to their proximity
to religion and its practitioners.
-Ivan Gowch