This evening at a parish I went to at the
end of Mass they passed
around letters to be signed to go to our to Senators in support of the
Global Poverty Act. The Senate Bill was introduced by U.S. Senators
Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA).
Reading through the bill it sounds like another boondoggle in
support of the The United Nations Millennium Development Goals which
will be just as ineffective and wasteful as President Johnson’s “War on
Poverty.” The bill mentions HIV/AIDS and prevention several
times and since abstinence and faithfulness are free you can easily
imagine how the money would be directed towards condoms and
“reproductive health.” Especially since part of the The
United Nations Millennium Development Goals includes
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against
Women (CEDAW) which is cover for abortion rights.
I just don’t see how further funneling our
money via the bureaucracies of our government and the United Nations is
going to be all that effective in reducing poverty other than filling
the pockets of bureaucrats. Remember the U.N. Oil for Food
program and how that money ended in so many peoples accounts while food
was not delivered to Iraq?
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The UN doesn’t even ‘cover’ their push for abortion. They have been quite blatantly using their access to funds (such as were solicited in that parish you mentioned) to pressure those who need the funds to provide access to abortion. They have also been using oppressive measures to force all members to comply. Some countries have said ‘NO’ and received threats of sanctions. Some have been sold out by their governments, in spite of massive public protests or against the opposition of their own Medical Assoc!! The only good sign is that there is starting to be a bit of a backlash within the UN. Some are questioning why abortion gets added to every agenda.
Perhaps the parish should be collecting for a charity who works in a country/countries and actually gives hand to hand help to the most needy. (Missionaries of the Poor comes to mind.)
I would raised holy heck about it. Or at least I tell myself as much.
Give, Jeff, give. Zimbabwe needs your money. The thugs who beat the political opposition with truncheons don’t pay themselves, you know.
It reminds me of this NFP video on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TN8j2ILe_Gc&feature=user
(or search for NFP vs. Contraception VI)
It’s so ridiculous that won’t even give people food until they force their own agenda on them.
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