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Cherry Picking makes Pope Francis’ Successes Limited

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Written by Richard Kane   
Tuesday, 29 September 2015 15:56
In Philadelphia at the Liberty Bell Mayor Nutter was overjoyed about what Pope Francis said about immigration, and impressed that he chose to speak in Spanish. Hoping for a repeat of what the Pope accomplished between the US and Cuba. At the same time ignoring what he said about sanctimony of marriage and life being precious from conception on. Others praise his statements and ability to role play in other areas, such as his ringing words on Freedom of Religion.
I think when it comes to Cuba a significant number of Cubans and Cuban-Americans are willing to accept his entire program giving him more clout. Also, many of those who consider themselves prolife got shepherded by him to oppose the death penalty also a real change. Though many born-again Christians want criminals who genuinely repented to God and made concrete attempts at restitution and comfort to their victims’ relatives to have their lives spared and then went on with the help of Pope Francis and of groups like Consistent Life to oppose the death sentence in general as well.

Would it be possible for a high percentage of the rest of us to support the Pope’s entire efforts toward a more loving peaceful world the way a larger number of Cubans and Cuban-Americans do? Hint: President Clinton wanted Abortion to be safe, legal and rare and he succeeded with all but very early abortion to make it rare with such methods of making mothers either work or go to school to get welfare, even in situation where childcare and education was a far greater government expense then a welfare check.

If an abortion protester wants to get in front a woman who is facing having a handicapped child to not do so instead of calling from behind the barricades from distance they might in order to be allowed close, need to offer to pay half the expensive heath insurance and lobby for more welfare and food stamps. As of now, if someone votes for someone claiming to be prolife like Governor Walker who attacks welfare and wages, the result is more desperate mothers seeking abortion, not less. If A mother thanks to Governor Walker already can’t adequately feed a child, is it fair to that child for Walker to insist on another child being born? If someone is punished for leaving an infant in a car in the parking lot of a gambling casino, the prolife thing to do would be also to punish the casino for not providing child care. If a casino is punished because some of the patrons end up going to bed hungry or can’t pay for a bus back home, the casino would find a way to prevent patrons from getting that broke. Or give out food stamps and travel vouchers to addicts spending all their money on gambling.

When it comes to the Pope’s statement on “Who am I to decide” when it comes to gay relationships yet be totally opposed to gay marriage. In some native-American tribes men who love each other and miss not being in each other’s company declare themselves to be blood-brothers and were respected as such by the tribe until recently when aids got in the way.

Our modern computer individualism preaching world only makes room for marriage except for a totally cold businesslike concept like domestic-partnership where a child loses half their adult friends upon dissolving the partnership. In the past, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles visited relatives in the hospital without hassle and made decisions when a patient is no longer able to decide themselves. Unless the patient made a prior vocal strong complaint or a court-order to the contrary. In the bad old days a child didn’t have two daddies or mommies but Dad and “Uncle Bob”, and was expected to fight with any other kid who claimed their dad and Uncle Bob put their penises in each-other’s-mouth or in each-other’s-anus. No religion (except Mormonism which insists everyone must get married and have children) is against feeling gay or being chaste,

Prophet Muhammad opposed what he considered filth such as dogs walking on prayer rugs and the risk of them urinated on them, sex during menstruation, and manure and sperm in ones mouth and hands. I wonder if the use of condoms and plastic covers for prayer rugs would have satisfied him. But I think condoms existed when he was alive, but would not have necessarily prevented menstrual blood on a husband’s hands. When an ayatollah through translators, seemed to claim there were no gays in Iran. They were really asserting that no one in Iran puts sperm in one’s mouth or anus.

If quite a few of us start asserting the rights of sisters, brothers aunts and uncles and grandparents, Pope Francis may bless soul brothers and sisters asserting only they refrain from future sharing body fluids not each other’s company the way today’s native-American spiritual blood-brothers refrain from pricking themselves and exchanging blood, due to AIDs. Perhaps Iranian clerics who accept transvestites’ providing they have a sex change operation can also bless soul brothers or in some other country where anal behavior and bestiality are considered the same crimes to be outlawed.

Since marriage suggests refraining from getting very close and personal with anyone but a spouse some in the West might as well prefer to be considered soul mates rather than call themselves married. However if the only choice is between calling oneself married or a domestic partner of course most would prefer marriage.

Anyway society needs to encourage various commitments to belongingness.

The entire UN Security Council agreed to remove chemical weapons from Syria, there wasn’t even a fight. World peace is possible and the Pope is on board. But belittling where one differs gets in the way.


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