David your opinions are outdated and more suited to the 1950's.
Here are some highlights
Bishop Leo O'Reilly's comment that permitting abortion on the grounds of suicidal intent would be "the first step on the road to a culture of death".We have had
Cardinal Sean Brady's reference to the matter in his Christmas message.
Of course, these interventions only anger those on the pro-choice side. Indeed, at the hearings yesterday
various politicians fired anti-clerical cheap shots at the Catholic representatives to the effect that male celibates know nothing about women.
The bishops' interventions are really aimed at are ordinary Mass-going Catholics, of which there are still many.
They need to be mobilised, to wake up fully to the fact that Ireland is about to cross a moral Rubicon, to authorise for the first time ever in Irish law the d
irect and intentional taking of innocent human life.No law-maker should ever authorise the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life. Permitting the suicide ground for abortion will do this and for no remotely good reason, because
pregnant women who are suicidal can always be offered an alternative to abortion.
Bishop Leo O'Reilly was attacked by, among others, Pat Rabbitte, for using "strident" language in saying that permitting abortion on the grounds of suicidal intention would be a "first step on the road to a culture of death".
But in what way was Bishop O'Reilly inaccurate?
Political correspondent Stephen Collins has attacked the bishops' stance as
"confrontational". But Mr Collins went much further, also accusing the bishops of mounting a "direct challenge to the authority of the electorate and the Dail".
Mr Collins is not normally given to hyperbole but one would think from the above that the bishops are trying to overthrow the Government.
All they are trying to do is change a government policy, which is something countless other organisations try to do all the time.
Far from this being a threat to democracy, it is simply the normal business of democracy.
In fact, if there is a silver lining in the current debate about abortion it is that
the bishops appear to be slowly regaining their nerve and are starting to show clear and decisive leadership to ordinary Catholics again.
So he is personally calling for a mobilisation of people who believe in a sky fairy to directly force our elected reps to ensure we stay in the dark ages.
DAVID ....... ITALY PERMITS ABORTION
More bullsh1t from this lunatic. All I can say is that I am so thankful the cult he adores does not have the power they once had.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/david-quinn-bishops-intervention-is-simply-the-normal-business-of-democracy-3348853.html
