According to official sources cited in the Mexican press, 173 women were murdered and another 1,000 were raped in Mexico state in 2008. Less than half the murder cases were reported solved.
In its recent world report, Human Rights Watch charged that violence against women in Mexico was endemic and draped in a mantle of impunity. Indeed, the saga of the Ciudad Juarez disappearances and femicides now covers the terms of four Mexican presidents and an equal number of U.S. leaders.
What does the Ever Concerned About the Sanctity of Life as Long As It Is Unborn or Male Church have to say? It is the victims fault for wearing revealing clothing! I sh*t you NOT.
Clothing Provokes Violence, Clergy Tells WomenSaturday, January 17, 2009
by Natalia Gomez Quintero and Noemi Gutierrez
El Universal
translated by Kristin Bricker
Ecclesiastical authorities blamed women for the sexual aggressions they suffer due to the "provocative" clothing they wear.
With plunging necklines and mini-skirts, "they're provoking men," said the archbishop of Santo Domingo, Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodrigez during the Sixth World Meeting of the Families.
Women expose themselves to rape, to being used, to being treated like an old dishrag, because they devalue themselves and their dignity, said the auxiliary bishop of Tegucigalpa, Darwin Rudy Andino.
Similar incidents of "femicide" are reported in nearly every Latin American country, this one from just today...
From the Latin American Herald Tribune 01/25/2009Guatemala Guerilla Army of the Poor's Norma Cruz: Every Day We're Fighting to Save Lives
By Alida Juliani
MADRID -- Norma Cruz, the president of the Fundacion Sobrevivientes (Survivors Foundation), which since 2003 has been working to wipe out violence against women in Guatemala, said that every day they have to "fight to save lives" in a country where impunity and murders of women are frequent occurrences.She is one of the people featured in the documentary "Un cambio en la mirada" produced by the FILIAPP foundation, a public policy organization, in collaboration with the EUROsocial program and Agencia EFE, Spain's international news agency.
The work is being presented Monday at the Casa de America in Madrid. Cruz discussed in an interview with Efe the details of the daily struggle and denounced the situation of impunity that prevails in Guatemala, a country in which more than 1,200 women and girls have been murdered in the last two years. "Just in 2008, there were 722 women murdered, an average of more than 50 per month," she said.
The reason women are being murdered with impunity in Latin America has to do with the way they have been raised to view women in their Catholic dominated culture. Until these beliefs begin to change, women will continue to be raped and murdered in these countries with few of the cases even investigated or solved.
Catholisim has a problem with women and sex in general. Its assumptions about gender and sexuality are rooted in its early history. The founding "father" of Catholism, St. Augustine, in the late fourth and early fifth centuries established certain assumptions that still plague this religion. Although Augustine acknowledged that women possessed the image of God and were redeemable, he believed that as females they were created by God from the beginning to be under male subjugation.
Women’s disproportionate guilt for the fall of humanity into sin, rooted in women’s disobedience to their subordination, meant that women could only be redeemed by accepting a redoubled subjugation to the male, even coercively so.
For Augustine the female could never represent God. Maleness was the appropriate image of rationality and spirituality, while the feminine represented the body and the material world.
Augustine’s view of woman was complicated by his view of sex and reproduction. In the original state of innocence humans would have procreated without concupiscence or sexual pleasure. I somehow doubt that honestly.
He believed the fall into sin distorted human sexuality, making every sexual act objectively sinful, although this was forgiven or allowed within marriage for the sake of producing children. But sex even within marriage, if the reproductive effects of the sexual act were impeded, was sinful or “mere fornication.” This view made any form of birth control sinful and is the basis of Catholic teaching on birth control still today.
And as if the batsh*tery isn't deep enough...Personally, I think their infertility is caused by evolution at it's very best.Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper
January 3, 2009
VATICAN CITY (AFP) – The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper said Saturday.The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tons of hormones into nature" through female urine", said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report.
We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill," he said, without elaborating further.
Jones said he knew about others (obviously more than the volunteer at this point, given the confirmation by current New Life pastor Brady Boyd on the church's web site), but couldn't reveal them at the time. Here's Mike Jones's video. I did a partial transcript:
And you'll recall that New Life stated at the time of the debacle that Jones was the "only one." So much for bearing false witness. Mike Jones also says that the MSM, specifically referencing the L.A. Times, that said he did drugs with Haggard are completely false. "I never did drugs with Ted Haggard. NEVER."
"I knew there were others; others that I could not publicly out. They had to do it themselves, but they were scared. Some of their parents knew about what was going on at the church. And some of the parents just wanted to turn a blind eye to it. I also realized that it was going to be a problem to me out there alone, facing the press, facing the criticism. Now when Brady Boyd took over as pastor of New Life Church, I contacted him. I wanted to talk to him about these other young men who were coming to me with their stories. This was serious. And Pastor Boyd refused to meet with me.
With all the recent news that is coming out now, I hope people understand why I had to say something; because if I hadn't said something, this will still be going on at the church, and it would probably be even worse. I've always been a bit disappointed in the gay community, and some gay groups, I have been ostracized by the gay community. I contacted groups like the Human Rights Campaign when my world was coming apart for help and they refused to even return my phone call. In Denver I have been spit on, I've been yelled at, I've been called just...a whore. And I would be lying if I said that did not hurt...I risked everything and I paid for it. I lost my privacy, I suffered financially, I lost my home, I lost friends, I lost family over this...I wanted to expose the injustice and the hypocrisy...I didn't do it for fame and fortune.
But I will tell you right now that most of my anger is at New Life Church. For over two years I have suffered being alone out there, taking all the heat for all this going on, when all this time they knew there were others and they paid hush money to this man to be quiet when they could have admitted that there were others right at that moment and that could have helped me out so much. Instead they put me out there to face it all on my own.
With the HBO documentary chronicling Haggard's rise and fall about to air this week, the former pastor was preparing for a sympathetic PR bonanza. He's slated to go on Larry King this Thursday and now he's going to have to face the music about his initial stories to the press that his fall off of the heterosexual wagon with Jones was some sort of isolated incident.
Can we ever reach the bottom of the sickness and hypocrisy with this man? Here's yet another reason that the influence of Pope Benedict is meaningful -- it extends beyond the spiritual bigotry -- it extends into political bigotry, ignorance and gross insensitivity as well. Readers often ask why anyone should pay attention to the acts of the Catholic Church -- this is why the actions of the Pope (and the criminal acts of his boyz) cannot be ignored or left unchallenged. Via Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin:Is there any gray area? perhaps Williamson's remarks could have been misinterpreted and thus been in doubt by Papa Ratzi as he mulled his decision? Uh, no.With Pope Benedict XVI saying such outrageous things as describing same-sex marriage as an "obstacle on the road to peace," or opposing the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide - including in countries that carry the death penalty even though the Vatican is itself opposed to the death penalty - it's hard to imagine him surprising us much. And yet, he manages not merely to surprise, but astonish:
The Pope has lifted the excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church of four bishops appointed by a breakaway archbishop more than 20 years ago. One of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's appointees, Briton Richard Williamson, outraged Jews by saying the Nazi gas chambers did not exist.
I believe that the historical evidence - the historical evidence - is hugely against six million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolph Hitler.The revisionist he cites is Fred Leuchter, and his work has been completely debunked. But no matter. I think that we are looking at two peas in a pod when it comes to Papa Ratzi and Williamson, and that's perhaps where the sympathy lies in the decision to lift the excommunication....I believe there were no gas chambers. Yes. As far as I have studied the evidence. I'm not going by emotion. I'm going by as far as I've understood the evidence. I think, for instance, people who are against what is widely believed today about the quote-unquote the Holocaust, I think that people, those people conclude - the revisionists as they're called - I think the most serious conclude that between two and three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber.
Look at his views on women and gays; they are below the fold.
Jim continues with a look at Williamson's enlightened view of women:
Williamson's newsletters are a treasure-trove of paranoia, nutty conspiracies and general all-around lunacy. Williamson argues that women should not wear trousers and that "almost no girl should go to any university" because doing so contributes to the "the unwomaning of woman."And well, the homos, as usual, get treatment from Williamson that doesn't fall far from the Benedict tree:...He has even criticized the movie The Sound of Music because of how it portrays those "nasty Nazis" and elevates "self-centered" romantic love. His views on gay people, engaging in a sin "crying to Heaven for vengeance," are all too predictable.
God did not wait for the founding of the Catholic Church to instill in men the horror of this sin, but he implanted in the human nature of all of us, unless or until we corrupt it, an instinct of violent repugnance for this particular sin, comparable to our instinctive repugnance for other misuses of our human frame, such as coprophagy.No. He did not go there. Being gay = sh*t eating. Does the Vatican have any comment on this? It's no wonder that so many young devout gay Catholics are full of self-doubt, despair, and commit suicide. With Williamson now a Catholic in good spiritual standing after Benedict having restored him to flock, what must gay and gay-supportive Catholics read into that support? Williamson leaves no doubt where he stands:
Therefore to speak of homosexuality as an "alternate life-style" is as perverse as equating the violation of nature with its observance. It is as foully corrupt as to make no difference between recognizing God the author of nature, and defying Him.Wow. This Pope, and whoever is advising him, if they have any sense of decency, need to explain this propping up of this PR nightmare. I'd love to hear Williamson's views on the raping priests (and enablers) in the church.Therefore what is "innate", or in-born, in human nature concerning homosexuality is a violent repugnance. Therefore to speak of homosexuality, or even just an inclination to it, as being "innate" in certain human beings, of course to excuse them, is to accuse God at least of contradiction, if not also of planting in men the cause of sin, which is implicit if not explicit blasphemy.
Will that be broadcast on the brand spanking new Papal YouTube channel?
Related:
* Pope welcomes 'holocaust denier' back to the fold (BBC)
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