Randall Terry Quotes
From the beginning when I founded Operation Rescue, the vision was not solely to end child-killing; the vision was to recapture the power bases of America, for child- killing to be the first domino, if you will, to fall in a series of dominoes. My feeling was, and still is, once we mobilize the momentum, the manpower, the money, and all that goes with that to make child-killing illegal, we will have sufficient moral authority and moral force and momentum to get the homosexual movement back in the closet, to get the condom pushers in our schools to be back on the fringes of society.
Anti-Abortion Organization
Randall Terry, Unsuccessful Candidate for Republican Congressional Nomination, Founder of Operation Rescue , Quoted in Feminist Women's Health Center, Stunning Facts about Right Wing Activities and Leaders, http://www.fwhc.org/take-action/ritewing.htm
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Stanek was a virulent homophobe who criticized her Republican Party for tolerating homosexuals.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. This quotation was reprinted in religious and secular organs of almost all religions as the message was universal and could apply also to non-Roman Catholic Churches and non-Christian religions. The Pope in this statement did not change church doctrine one bit. It urged a major change in tactics, context, emphasis and style. Extreme fundamentalists within the Roman Catholic church and without, however, saw the statement as a softening of the moral position of the church regarding these controversial areas. Most however welcomed his quotation as long overdue and a stylistic throwback to a different time where people were less educated and less informed by media.
The then current example was with same sex marriage. Some people who claimed that their religion declared same sex marriage as a sin and prohibited their aiding and abetting that activity. As a result, they claimed that their right of religious freedom allowed a county clerk to refuse to issue the marriage license or a hotel to refuse to allow a gay couple to rent their facility for a wedding, or a retail store to refuse to sell the couple bedding.
This is an example of a twisted kind of political logic that says that if there are law breakers who don't like legal behavior of others and will therefore commit violent crimes if they continue to act legally, the law should be changed to make the behavior illegal so they criminals and murderers will not be so angry. However, there are few people who actually believe this. An ironic thing about this man is that his rabid opposition to abortion is based on his interpretation of the Bible (Old Testament) which never mentions abortion as a crime. (The Early Hebrews and Christians practiced abortion and saw no Biblical stricture against it.) However, he claims that the Biblical crime of bestiality—punishable by death—should be normalized. See {583375} for an example of this hypocrisy.
Portugal, a traditional Roman Catholic nation where the Church has always had great influence, had laws banning abortion. However, in a national referendum the Portuguese people voted overwhelming to allow abortion despite the Church’s stand. The Parliament then overwhelmingly passed a law legalizing abortion on demand up to the 10 the week of pregnancy. The President, though opposed personally to abortion signed the bill. This quotation illustrates a common occurrence in industrial democracies whereby politicians will not impose their personal moral views on the laws of society but may well have contrary personal views.
The official position of the church was against the child molestation and rape by pedophile priests as it was against artificial contraception. Harris based his conclusion on the effort the church leaders and priests were making for each of the two issues. While the Pope condemned in no uncertain terms the pedophilia of the priests, the sermons and the literature of the church dealt with contraception much more frequently. At the time, the church was still covering up the sex scandal and some church officials were still in denial as to the extent. When the Pope was a cardinal, he also contributed to the cover-up, claiming to be hamstrung by the limitations of cannon law with regard to defrocking perverted priests.
Religious Fundamentalists had made the sale, use and/or information about contraception illegal in many states until 1963 when the Supreme Court found that a state could not jail a pharmacist for filling a prescription for a woman who would die if she became pregnant again. The contraception issue seemed settled in America but the culture wars of the late 20th century and early 21st century brought it to the forefront again. Many fundamentalists who oppose both contraception and abortion chose to concentrate only on the abortion issue as so many American women used contraception. But many of the anti abortion groups also oppose legal contraception and see it as enabling sexual promiscuity—the position that Santorum held as is illustrated by this quotation.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Justifying his support of the Hyde Amendment prohibiting Federal funds to be used to perform abortions. Carter was normally a staunch defender of equal opportunity for the poor, but the Hyde Amendment de facto prohibited poor women from exercising their rights to have abortions while middle class and wealthy women could exercise that right.. The hypocrisy was difficult for him to explain.
Randall Allen Terry (born 1959) is an American activist and political candidate. Terry founded the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue, which he later abandoned. The group became particularly prominent beginning in 1987 for blockading the entrances to abortion clinics; Terry led the group until 1991. He has been arrested more than 40 times, including for violating a no-trespass order from the University of Notre Dame in order to protest a visit by President Barack Obama.
