Note from ANCPR: This is a very significant piece of news. As far as I know, this is one of the first times that religious leaders have had the fortitude to stand up for the principle of the importance of not writing off the importance of a father in the life of a child. This story concerns Scotland, but perhaps if enough people talk with their pastors, bishops and so forth, the same kind of pronouncements could be forthcoming in America.
Defend the rights of fathers, protect the traditional family, Scottish bishops urge PM
7/17/2007
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
GLASGOW , Scotland (Catholic Online) – The state oversteps its bounds by attempting to write out in law and in social policy the role of the father in the raising of children, said the Catholic bishops of Scotland.
In a July 13 letter written to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Scotland’s two most senior Catholic officials, Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Edinburgh and St. Andrews and Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, the president and vice president, respectively, of the Scottish Bishops’ Conference, called for an urgent review of the timetable for the ongoing public consultation on the “Human Tissue and Embryology Bill,” arguing elements of the draft legislation could be extremely harmful to the long-term welfare of children.
“The draft legislation proposes to remove the current reference in legislation to a child’s need for a father,” the prelates said.
“The proposals, they stressed, “constitute a sweeping attempt to rewrite traditional concepts of parenthood and the family.
Cardinal O’Brien and Archbishop Conti noted that passage of the draft bill would mean “that, prior to provision of fertility treatment, there will no longer be any requirement, nor guidance, to consider the child’s need for a father.”
They suggested that the draft provisions were “devised to accommodate the huge variety of new technologies that have followed in the wake of in vitro fertilization, and which facilitate the creation of children without any deference to historical social traditions or indeed to natural biology.”
While noting that the draft bill is “under scrutiny” by a joint committee of the two houses of Parliament and is “a complex and lengthy document,” the Catholic bishops’ officials said that section three, which addresses the child’s lack of need of a father, has had “very little public airing.”
The joint committee’s consultation on the bill will only last “for a mere two months, over the summer and during the parliamentary recess,” calling the prime minister to act now to ensure “that these very important considerations are given the time they merit.”
“We do not believe that there has been anywhere near sufficient widespread and informed public consultation on the matters in question and that to proceed in haste with regard to issues of such grave importance is both improper and dangerous,” they concluded.
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1 Bud // Jul 18, 2007 at 9:22 am
I went though a divorce from hell back in the mid 80’s in MA. Many churches in this country are not unsympathetic to the plight of divorced fathers. I have been to more than one church service (both Catholic and Methodist) in MA that has openly critized the State on the issue of Father’s rights. However, the Liberal media usually prints or says just the negetave.
The same goes for lawyers in MA but as one police sargent confided to me when you need them you can’t depend on them and therefore I have no use for them. The MA Bar Association realizes that the Judicuary has some serious issues with accountability and credibility. So what does the Judicuary do? they go hire the American Bar Association to intimidate the MA Bar Association. Though perhaps outdated but still relivent are two documentaries; ” Justice on Trial” aired second week of Dec 1989 and “The State We Are In” March 1990. MA has the 15 worst legal system in the country. Anyone who has gone through it knows its a cross between a Zoo, a box of chocolates, and a railroad association. Nothing could shock me, I’ve seen it all from blantant discrimination, purjury by police, lawyers and court officers. manufactured and altered court records, intimation, cohersion, physical and verbal threats and so on and so on. Hell with two lawyers and spending thousands and thousands of dollars they couldn’t even get my address straight on the divorce degree and I was living less than two miles from where the children lived not 300 miles away in another state.
“Terrorist Beaurocratic Organization” That is an understatement.
2 wdfields // Jul 18, 2007 at 9:58 am
Another story of Sex and a Preacher is presently running from the Hype-Media of Alabama.
Of course, in fine print, a targeted Foster parent is carefully qualified as an un-ordained Preacher. Oh, what the hay, the favorite cat’s already out of the bag.
Might such perhaps represent as just another example of the various activities in liking with “Blood Thirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps?” Does the Media Hype really care?
In the very news release, the “news producer of the show in New York, said . . . [it] is the kind of ’story’ the show’s producers could not pass up.”
. . . “Are you ready”
. . . Are you ready for this
. . . / Boom, Bomp, Bumph /
. . . Another one bites the dust”
(see Lyrics, Queen at http://www.elyrics.net/read/q/queen-lyrics/another-one-bites-the-dust-lyrics.html)
Yes, maybe we’re perhaps all (yes, all of us)
. . . “hanging on the edge of [our] seats.”
And leading the charge for the chorus, none other than an entrusted Assistant District Attorney A. P.
THEE all knowing of the NOW more Enlightened and Liberated groupings of professionals of “addicts.”
If my local region lends any indication, perhaps the various local professionals (even the BAR) of the Alabama region similarly receive/offer counsel to “entrusted” for merely ignoring silly ole’ oaths and obligations.
For sure, a delicate vessel of otherwise honorable civil society of perhaps even a long, delicate and dedicated weave left NOW to mere whimsy of emotionally perceived needs for self-serving compulsions of the “addicted.”
NOW, more of the addicted driven by an allure of Easy Money and greed for PC points relative their own perceived (false dicta) need of PC peers – whom may be of no perceptible loyalty whatsoever relative to the sanctity of life, let alone respects otherwise owing to the dignity of any but mere “child” of the Almighty – NOW walking half-cocked our watch within all of our (yes, all of us) neighborhood watches.
. . . “Are [we] happy?”
. . . Are [we] satisfied”
. . . How long can [we] stand the heat.”
Of course, in fine print, the Foster parent is qualified as un-ordained. But what the hay, we’ve already let the cat out of the bag. Could it represent another example of the various activities in liking with the theme in “Blood Thirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power?” Do the (fact finding) Media Hype really care?
In the very same news release, they admittedly espouse that the “news producer of the show in New York, said . . . [it] is the kind of ’story’ the show’s producers could not pass up.”
. . . “Are you ready”
. . . Are you ready for this
. . . / Boom, Bomp, Bumph / . . .
Uncertainty and Ambiguity, now “Hallmark” trump-cards of the “entrusted.”
By which to further tilt the gravy-train of the Federal Dole unto the Addicts.
Hallmark Calling Cards of our NOW Modern Addicts (of course via my perspective).
Today, our media readily gambles the sex-preacher “quenelle” ticket for the 1000:One potential payback in combination with the associated follow-on amplification available via our MODERN media/press-stage of our present day. With such odds prospect for the poised “running-horse,” the “gamble” serves well for the pay-back; regardless of veracity or an absence of meaningful corroborations.
Merely witness to a frenzy of some of the “entrusted” by which to deliver by way of other “entrusted” for those who indeed appear to be
. . . “hanging on the edge of our seats.”
Yes, of course, multitudes-of-magnitudes of greater enlightenment and emotionally-feel-good liberated-elevations beyond that which would otherwise be available from even but one PAS case. The gross disproportion of grandeur may thus remain even in real likelihood of multiple PAS-type cases.
Accordingly, the PC grandeur may be used to overshadow (or distract/mask) and sustain Politically Correct racketeering of THEE NOW widespread operatives in most of our streets of America. In this spirit, the press coverage for such “shock and awe” elevations of hate facilitate further overshadowing of any single (let alone multiple) account of
(i) US book-banning(s) (such as of the authorship of Physic Instructor Mr. Kevin Thompson regarding Liberty in America),
(ii) blocking and/or interference and/or tripping and/or derailment and/or frustrating abilities of the Public (i.e., even of the likes of various noted/academic scholars, let alone of former US. Presidential Honorary Award recipients) in meaningful participation in our Modern and allegedly more enlightened public U.S. lawmaking/democratic processes, which are allegedly to be for benefit of We the People of the People, or
(iii) NOW benign matters of fraudulent usurping(s) from earnings of many innocent families and couples
. . . (a) let alone when NOW openly performed under encouragements, banners and facilitations of alleged “Family and Children” services of entities/contractors/members within the United States . . .
(iv) . . . etc, etc. . . .
- - -
Why might some NOW come to eventual awareness and/or shaping of such opinion?
Because of our NOW Widely known and Understood operatives (perhaps even most) as represented by of our now alleged “Entrusted” of present standing at the helm and/or reigns of Our alleged Public Service (NOT) stations.
Say, did I hear something about “Maximus level of interference by which to achieve suspect of state (Self-)interest?”
With Sincerity of expression and compassion for all afflicted,
- just adad
3 wdfields // Jul 18, 2007 at 10:07 am
Sorry for the rough-draft form above
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