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Shake · 08-02-2004, 05:22 AM

Well, I didn't see that anyone else had yet posted this story, so forgive me if I've missed it somewhere here.

Story here.

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The Vatican on Saturday denounced feminism for trying to blur differences between men and women and threatening the institution of families based on a mother and a father.

In the next quote here, you can kind of see where they're coming from ...

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Addressed to bishops worldwide, the document contended that new recent approaches to women’s issues are marked by a tendency “to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men.�?

OK, they've got a point there. Men and women shouldn't be adversaries, but what's wrong with women expecting equal pay for equal work and some respect for their skills?

Again, upon further reading, the document isn't as bad as it might sound, but it's got its moments.

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These consequences, it said, included calling “into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father,�? giving homosexual and heterosexual couples on an equivalent status.

Oh no. Not that!

Dean Anderson · 08-02-2004, 05:35 AM

This is the fourth thread about this subject.

There's already this one in CSS, this one in MFP and this one in Humour.

I'm locking this - if anyone wants to discuss the topic then please do it on one of the other three existing threads...

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Dean Anderson Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Brighton, England Posts: 6,947	This is the fourth thread about this subject. There's already this one in CSS, this one in MFP and this one in Humour. I'm locking this - if anyone wants to discuss the topic then please do it on one of the other three existing threads...

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