Catholic church leads rally against family planning in Philippines

[hue]

Source: The National

MANILA // Philippine Roman Catholic Church leaders led a rally Saturday against a proposed law that would provide government funding for contraceptives and introduce reproductive health and sexuality classes in schools.

The House of Representatives is to decide next week whether to end debate on the bill and bring it to a final vote.

Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Pangasinan province said in a statement read to about 10,000 people at the rally that contraceptives corrupt moral values and promote the view that "babies are a nuisance."

The Philippines has one of the fastest-growing populations in Asia. President Benigno Aquino III has expressed support for the right to contraception, while the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy opposes artificial birth control.
Aquino called for passage of the bill during his annual address to Congress last month.

Socrates mocked Aquino's campaign to eliminate poverty by fighting corruption.

Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/asia-pacific/catholic-church-leads-rally-against-family-planning-in-philippines

[MADem]

1. Why do they think that the poor will continue to gravitate towards them?

They look at the PI as a little Catholic Factory, but evangelical faiths are making serious inroads there.

Stupid, stupid, strategy.

[Ikonoklast]

3. No babies born to Catholic families, no more Catholics.

Their business model absolutely depends on children born into their faith, as they cannot convert enough others to cover the membership shortfall otherwise.

[glinda]

7. Catholic Church hopes to co-opt the Evangelical model also. Pope

wrote a huge edict on "Evangelicising" as the new model to follow.

[zbdent]

2. looking for a few "good" boys to bugger?

[diane in sf]

4. The biggest money maker in the Philippines is exported slave labor, perhaps

cutting down on that threatens the church or its more affluent members.

[Oldenuff]

12. The Philippines is like a Republican wet dream...slave labor and all

Yep,keep having them babies.I live out in the provinces and see first-hand how many people are unemployed/underpaid/underfed...the education industry cranks out graduates that don't have a snowballs chance in hell of finding work in their chosen profession unless they go abroad.(the average Filipino's dream).The plus side for business in the Philippines,is that new graduates must work for free for a period of time (normally 6 months) as a condition of their graduating.The businesses that they "intern" at are under no obligation to employ them after their internship is over.hell,just get a bunch more graduates to intern for 6 months,and you never have to hire anyone.Is it any coincidence that the Catholic church is apposed to any sort of birth control family planning?A plus is that many Filipinos live and breathe the Catholic church,so the continued spiral to poverty and virtual indenture-ship is assured.The Filipinos worst enemy to progress is overpopulation.Post a sign for help wanted and you had better stand back or get run over...and the sheer numbers of applicants assure business that they can pay virtually nothing and still get employees.

Filipinos are their own worst enemies.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Hmmm...Makes me wonder if the Catholic Church is getting kickbacks from all these

ill-begotten gains. And what the hell are they doing getting involved in something that should be a personal issue anyway? I see a huge opportunity for taxation here.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Perhaps the Roman Church is invested in the slave labor which the nation provides?

To Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle: We reject your archaic church.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. What on earth do a bunch of old bachelors in Rome know about families in

the Philippines? Let's sell the Vatican Treasures and use them to feed and clothe the unplanned kids so that the children won't have to work in sweat shops in order to survive. And I'm sure the Pope could give up a few pairs of Prada shoes.

[Jessy169]

8. It is getting bad in the Philippines

I've been to the Philippines several times. One of my closest friends is Filipina. She related a story to me several days ago where just recently a 20-year-old sister of one of her friends in the Philippines had sex for the first time, and got pregnant. The guy who did the deed disappeared and the girl's very religious (Catholic) family is so angry that they don't want her around anymore. In the meantime, the hills and valleys of the Philippines are packed with "neighborhoods" of cheap shanties with too many barely clothed kids, pregnant women and unemployed men packed into incredibly small areas.

The Philippines have to break with the Catholic Church on this issue someday. Over-population is becoming a huge problem for those people.

[davidpdx]

10. I too have a couple of close Filipina friends

and have visited three times. The last time I was there earlier this year I was staying near a really old Catholic church and happened to walk by on Sunday (the doors were open) and I walked in for a few minutes and watched out of curiosity.

Both of my friends are Catholic, but neither are what I would call devout. Both are single. The older of the two friends is pregnant with a child out of wedlock to an American who is married. The second one hasn't gotten pregnant, but has said she's had unprotected sex.

I'm going to send an email to both asking them to oppose the Catholic Churches move.

[SoapBox]

9. Why does the catholic cult always have it's head in the bed...

Perverts. That is what the Cult has become...always in the bedroom...always in a woman's crotch...always sick with child molesters...

Shut the whole f'ing thing down!

It's creepy...nasty...evil and vile.

[sarcasmo]

15. +1

[Arugula Latte]

11. Seriously. Fuck the Catholic Church. Stop supporting that piece-of-crap institution.

[sarcasmo]

16. +1

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. Philippine population 1970: 38,603,700 /// Philippine population July 2011 (est): 103,775,002

If ever an institution that held such sway over so many people could act so irresponsible - it is hard to imagine


http://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101014024608AAXOlEO

http://www.indexmundi.com/philippines/demographics_profile.html

[sarcasmo]

14. Religion is insanity.

[vinny9698]

18. Black and White TVs were used as birth control.

These TVs were given free to poor people. It was cheaper to give a TV then to pay for health care. It worked. Pregnancy rates went down. Just think of the brown out baby boom from NYC power outage.