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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 06/29/2006 : 16:19:48
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The obscenities hurled from the Christian Right continue, as shown in an article at CNN.com:quote:
Priest: Buffett is 'Dr. Mengele of philanthropists'
Alliance with Gates foundation irks anti-abortion activists
Thursday, June 29, 2006; Posted: 5:38 p.m. EDT (21:38 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Warren Buffett's new philanthropic alliance with fellow billionaire Bill Gates won widespread praise this week, but anti-abortion activists did not join in, instead assailing the two donors for their longtime support of Planned Parenthood and international birth-control programs.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to which Buffett has pledged the bulk of his $44-billion fortune, devotes the vast majority of its funding to combating disease and poverty in developing countries. Less than 1 percent has gone to Planned Parenthood over the years. And the Gates Foundation does not permit its gifts to Planned Parenthood to be used for abortion services.
"The merger of Gates and Buffett may spell doom for the families of the developing world," said the Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, a Roman Catholic priest who is president of Human Life International.
Referring to Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi death camp doctor, Euteneuer said Buffett "will be known as the Dr. Mengele of philanthropy unless he repents."
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America issued statements praising Buffett and Gates for their generosity. Gloria Feldt, a former Planned Parenthood president, said she was appalled by the harsh attacks on them.
"What an outrage that these people have the gall to cast aspersions on other citizens for standing up for what they believe," Feldt said Thursday. "They have no right whatsoever to criticize people who put their money where their mouths are."
The foundation founded by Buffett, and now named after his late wife, Susan, came under fire from some anti-abortion groups in the 1990s after it gave $2 million to fund clinical trials of mifepristone, more commonly known as the RU-486 abortion pill. The foundation also has supported various abortion-rights and family-planning groups, and Susan Buffett was eulogized after her death in 2004 as a champion of women's reproductive health.
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, wrote a commentary this week holding the Buffetts partially responsible for the approval of RU-486 in 2000.
"Since then, approximately 500,000 American babies have been killed with RU-486," Perkins wrote. "Buffett's billions have the potential to do damage like this on a global scale."
Staff at the Susan T. Buffett Foundation office in Omaha, Nebraska, said its executive director, Allen Greenberg, would have no comment on the criticisms.
The Gates Foundation also is a patron of reproductive-health programs, funding research on new contraceptive technologies and initiatives to improve access to birth control.
Planned Parenthood, which is the leading provider of abortions in the United States, has received $34 million from the Gates Foundation over the years -- out of a total of $10.5 billion in grants worldwide, according to foundation spokeswoman Jacquelline Fuller. She said the foundation does not fund abortion services, earmarking the grants for other Planned Parenthood programs.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/02/2006 : 17:47:49 [Permalink]
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Warren Buffett's new philanthropic alliance with fellow billionaire Bill Gates won widespread praise this week, but anti-abortion activists did not join in, instead assailing the two donors for their longtime support of Planned Parenthood and international birth-control programs.
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The reverse of this logic, I guess, would be that George W. Bush is the Adolph Hitler of republicanism.
Killing and philanthropy are not analogous, and fascism and republicanism aren't either. But....fascism
and Republicans, unfortunately, seem to have more and more in common everyday.
It couldn't be that this accusatory priest is pissed because he knows his "poverty-stricken" church and/or foundations will likely not get any of the Buffett/Gates dough?
If his church had sounded off with its Christian message before millions of human beings were murdered due to The Third Reich, there may never have been a Dr. Mengele to whom Warren Buffett could be absurdly compared!
This seems to be an appropriate place to submit the hackneyed command: GIVE ME A BREAK!! |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 21:24:20 [Permalink]
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| I'm at a loss for words. If you take this at face value, you have the billions the Gates Foundation is putting into vaccines for children, treatment and/or cure for TB, and Malaria, some of the most frequent diseases that cause death and disability among children, and all these a-holes can say is abstinence only education and stop abortion! Are they that brain dead? Simply unbelievable. |
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