Before I start, Dave was able to find an amendment to yesterday's story: The Church decided not to excommunicate the little girl. See, she's too young to understand the full implication of getting an abortion. The mother and the doctor, however? They are just evil and their excommunication remains. Well, obviously that's just. One just shouldn't put the health of a little rape victim ahead of the lives of two unborn fetuses. Duh.
To try and lighten things up, here is one of the best video game trailers ever. It almost makes me want to get this game. But then I remember that I am generally bored and frustrated early by these military type games. Oh well. At least I got to witness Stalin utter "Rhythm is a Dancer". Somehow 90's music makes genocide seem all that much better, huh?
It’s almost too easy to pick on the Catholic Church sometimes. It’s just that they make themselves such easy targets for ridicule. On the Anniversary of International Woman’s Day, meant to celebrate the advancements of the sex (when, let’s face it, they haven’t always been seen as “equal” in the eyes of the menfolk), the Vatican decided to help women figure out what was the most “liberating” invention for their sex. The Vatican’s answer? The Washing Machine.
My favorite part of the article? “The article is entitled, “The washing machine and the emancipation of women: put in the powder, close the lid and relax”, taking its name from the Washy Talky, the Electrolux bilingual-talking washing-machine launched in India seven years ago, which would remind the absent-minded housewife how to use the appliance.” Oh, those absent-minded womenfolk. Always forgetting how to use something as simple as a washing machine. It’s a wonder they can get out of bed in the morning and remember to wash their hair! Why without the menfolk to make a talking machine, their laundry might just sit there all day never being washed!
But wait, it gets worse.
A nine-year-old victim of rape has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church because she underwent an abortion of the twins she was carrying. Let me reiterate: This child is nine. Carrying twins to term would have been major detriment to her health. Giving birth to these twins at that frail age could mean death. This was not a woman who had sex and then suffered the consequences of not protecting herself (not that I am judging that activity); this is a little girl who was molested and raped by her 23-year old stepfather (possibly since she was five). She didn’t discover she was pregnant until she was rushed to the hospital by her mother and they discovered the growing embryos within her.
The church’s stance towards the stepfather: Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, the conservative regional archbishop for Pernambuco where the girl was rushed to hospital, has said that the (Rapist / stepfather) would not be thrown out of the Church, because although he had allegedly committed "a heinous crime", the Church took the view that "the abortion, the elimination of an innocent life, was more serious".
If this young child had died in childbirth, that is acceptable though? She is excommunicated from her faith, but a man who raped an innocent (and her 11-year old disabled sister) is allowed to remain in the church? I had to read this more than one this morning, because I had a hard time believing this doctrine. I guess this harkens back to the medieval belief that she was probably asking for it. Lord knows those young little harlets, running around and listening to Hannah Montana and watching Dora are just leading on all of society's degernates and perverts.
Or maybe the Church really needs to get it's priorities straight.