Gross… NY Times Print Ad Calls on Catholics to Leave “Woman-Hating, Sex-Perverting, Old Boys Club” the Church
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, March 9, 2012, 5:44 AM
The New York Times published an ad today that calls on Catholics to leave the Catholic Church.
The far left group calls liberal Catholics “enablers” and says it’s time to choose between the “woman-hating, sex-perverting, old boy’s club” and reproductive rights.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation purchased the ad.
Here’s the open letter to liberal Catholics:
Dear ‘Liberal’ Catholic:
It’s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church.
It’s your moment of truth. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on, anyway?
It is time to make known your dissent from the Catholic Church, in light of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops’ ruthless campaign endangering the right to contraception. If you’re part of the Catholic Church, you’re part of the problem.
Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? Why are you aiding and abetting a church that has repeatedly and publicly announced a crusade to ban contraception, abortion and sterilization, and to deny the right of all women everywhere, Catholic or not, to decide whether and when to become mothers? When it comes to reproductive freedom, the Roman Catholic Church is Public Enemy Number One. Think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of the Church’s antiquated doctrine that birth control is a sin and must be outlawed.
A backer of the Roman Catholic presidential candidate says that if women want to avoid pregnancy we should put an aspirin between our knees? Catholic politicians are urging that the right to contraception should be left up to states? Nearly 50 years after the Supreme Court upheld contraception as a privacy right, we’re going to have to defend this basic freedom all over again?
You’re better than your church. So why? Why continue to attend Mass? Tithe? Why dutifully sacrifice to send your children to parochial schools so they can be brainwashed into the next generation of myrmidons (and, potentially, become the next Church victims)? For that matter, why have you put up with an institution that won’t put up with women priests, that excludes half of humanity?
No self-respecting feminist, civil libertarian or progressive should cling to the Catholic faith. As a Cafeteria Catholic, you chuck out the stale doctrine and moldy decrees of your religion, but keep patronizing the establishment that menaces public health by serving rotten offerings. Your continuing Catholic membership, as a “liberal,” casts a veneer of respectability upon an irrational sect determined to blow out the Enlightenment and threaten liberty for women worldwide. You are an enabler. And it’s got to stop.
If you imagine you can change the church from within — get it to lighten up on birth control, gay rights, marriage equality, embryonic stem-cell research — you are deluding yourself. If you remain a “good Catholic,” you are doing “bad” to women’s rights. You’re kidding yourself if you think the Church is ever going to add a Doctrine of Immaculate ContraCeption.
It is disgraceful that U.S. health care reform is being held hostage to the Catholic Church’s bizarre opposition to medically prescribed contraception. No politician should jeopardize electability for failure to genuflect before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. (Question to ask your Bishop: Does he hold up an umbrella against the rain? Isn’t that just as “unnatural” as using a condom or diaphragm?)
Your Church hysterically claims that secular medical policy is “an assault against religious liberty.” You are savvy enough to realize that the real assault is by the Church against women’s rights and health care. As Nation columnist Katha Pollitt asks: Is it an offense against Jehovah Witnesses that health care coverage will include blood transfusions? The Amish, as Pollitt points out, don’t label cars “an assault on religious liberty” and try to force everyone to drive buggies. The louder the Church cries “offense against religious liberty” the harder it works to take away women’s liberty.
Obama has compromised, but the Church never budges, instead launching a vengeful modern-day Inquisition. Look at its continuing directives to parish priests to use their pulpits every Sunday to lobby you against Obama’s policy, the Church’s announcement of a major anti-contraception media campaign — using your tithes, contributions and donations — to defeat Obama’s laudable health care policy. The Church has introduced into Congress the “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, ” a bill to place the conscienceless Catholic Church’s “rights of conscience” above the rights of conscience of 53 percent of Americans. That the Church has “conscience rights” to deny women their rights is a kissing cousin to the claim that “corporations are people.” The Church that hasn’t persuaded you to oppose contraception now wants to use the force of secular law to deny contraceptive rights to non-Catholics.
But is there any point in going on? After all, your misplaced loyalty has lasted through two decades of public sex scandals involving preying priests, children you may have known as victims, and church complicity, collusion and coverup going all the way to the top. Are you like the battered woman who, after being beaten down every Sunday, feels she has no place else to go?
But we have a more welcoming home to offer, free of incense-fogged ritual, free of what freethinker Bertrand Russell called “ideas uttered long ago by ignorant men,” free of blind obedience to an illusory religious authority. Join those of us who put humanity above dogma.
As a member of the “flock” of an avowedly antidemocratic club, isn’t it time you vote with your feet? Please, exit en Mass.
Very truly,
Annie Laurie Gaylor
Co-President
Freedom From Religion Foundation
What a bunch of offensive leftists.
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nana commented:
Luke 23:34
Angela commented:
Ugh. Just buy your own birth control, people!! Don’t make me buy it for you!!
moron commented:
And the same fake Catholic liberals don’t move to Texas, stay in or move to Massachusetts, California or Illinois. Thank you.
Jack Burton commented:
When do we start rioting and killing people? Oh wait, we’re not stone age savages.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
But—but—but—-
If you don’t buy birth control for womyns, you are a mean ol’ hatey-hater!
Just because womyns are strong and liberated and powerful, they still need you to buy their birth control—they can’t do it themselves! ‘Cuz they’re also delicate, sensitive flowers, who need society’s support, and wilt if they’re called mean names, such as “Slut.”
/Sarc. off.
Seriously. . .
This is just a harbinger of things to come.
Give it time.
Before too long, Catholics will not just be requested, but ordered to leave the church. If they don’t. . .
Well, there’s always re-eduction camp. Or a friendly chat with your friendly secret pollice officer.
Just renounce your silly Catholic faith—and put a little incense on this altar to Pharoh Obama.
JPL17 commented:
That’s the most bigoted, dishonest and hateful anti-Catholic rant I’ve ever seen published in a mainstream outlet. It could have been signed “Very truly yours, Prince of Darkness.”
The ONLY thing I can’t understand is why the New York Times didn’t wait until Easter Sunday to publish it.
srdem65 commented:
MrSantorum was right; Satan is here in America.
noah commented:
Here is what I have to say to the Left.. Islam,Islam,Islam…. when they want to go after a ‘Religion” Go after the one who is really stopping woman’s rights..
Like the right to not have their Hoo,hoo removed or the right to not be married by the ripe old age of 6 or the right to not wear trash bags covering their faces. The right to not be killed because some “man’s” Honor was dirtied and so on.
john b commented:
I wonder if Annie Gaylor is going to put one out to Muslim men to leave Islam.
Annie, when is that one coming out?
redc1c4 commented:
i see the atheists are out proselytizing for their religion again…
Nice Deb commented:
Liberal Catholics don’t believe what the church teaches, but try to subvert it from the inside, polluting our “peace and justice” committees with their nonsensical tripe.
I’d have no problem with them leaving en masse. A housecleaning would actually be good for the church – might bring the more orthodox Catholics, who left years ago in disgust, back into the fold.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Interesting that she mentions Bertrand Russell.
He worshipped dictators, and used women like toilet paper.
But here, he’s being pushed as some great alternative to that bigoted ol’ Catholic Church.
And just put this grain of incense on Pharoh Obama’s altar! That’s all you have to do!
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
By the way, Gateway Pundit, could you please find a link to the original article that doesn’t go directly to the Freedom From Religon Foundation’s website?
Don’t want to be giving these guys any traffic. . .
arcb102000 commented:
What do you think are the odds that the NY Times will print an ad from these same folks decrying misogyny, pedophilia and anti-gay practices among Muslims? My personal estimate is one in a billion, and that may be high.
As has been pointed out by others, the only respectable bigotry with intellectuals is anti-Catholic/anti-Christian/anti-Mormon beliefs.
Buck Ofama commented:
Those damn fool Christians, Jews, Muslims, & Buddhists have been had for thousands of years. There is only one TRUE GOD and his name is Obama. Upon his nomination for deity he said…
“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”.
…And the staff of the NY Slimes had multiple orgasms.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
You can imagine the shock and horror if a similar ad were run advising Moslems to leave their religion.
But Islam is the Marxists’ ally at the moment, so they’ll never do that.
RickS commented:
I’m Catholic and my response to this is “fine, if you are a ‘liberal’ Catholic and disagree with the Church’s teachings, then go. This isn’t the 16th Century. You can leave the Church any time you wish. And go in peace.” sn/ Now, I’m sure the next target of this “Freedom From Religion Foundation” will be Islam and their ad will be chock-full of condemnation of the Islamic subjugation of women, female circumcision, and violence against Christians and gays. /sn
Al commented:
If they want to leave, let them. Unlike the Muslems we won’t hunt them down and stone them to death.
Steve White commented:
It’s clearly a hate-filled rant, isn’t it. But then we’ve come to expect this from our progressive Left citizens, so I’m not surprised in the least. For extra fun and credit one could score all the lies, misleading statements and propaganda in this open letter, but my abacus doesn’t have that many beads.
There is one valid point to be made: ‘cafeteria’ Catholics help neither the Church nor the Left. I recognize that there is a comfort zone for certain people to feel like they belong to the Church without being serious about obeying the basic tenets, and I’m certainly not going to demand that people practice their faith a certain way. It’s not my place. But the ‘Catholics in Name Only’ do not strengthen the Church. To be authentic in a faith is to live the beliefs of that faith, not just mouth the words, and that’s a point that the bishops and priests themselves have been making from the pulpit the last two millennia.
The Left periodically demands that people side with them and choose its beliefs rather than the true faith, and when scorned the Left generally reacts with terror and bloodshed (see for example, France 1790, Russia 1919). The Left has become smarter with passing decades, so we won’t see blood in the streets next week. But the Left has ways of forcing submission, little by little, and that certainly is ahead of us in the months to come.
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