Dolores Huerta has spent her entire life advocating for workers’ rights and social justice. She is one of the most well-regarded progressive leaders in this country. She epitomizes progressive values, and is a phenomenal human rights leader.
But because she’s pro-choice, her speaking events at Catholic schools are being canceled — even though the events had nothing to do with reproductive rights, and she wasn’t planning on talking about abortion or contraception.
Good to know that the Catholic church cares about social justice — as long as you can pass the misogyny litmus test first.
Now, if only she had molested little boys…
[...] And over in the States, Dolores Roberta, human rights activist and well-regarded progressive leader, was supposed to give a talk to Catholic school children about her funding role in United Farm Workers and the importance of public service. But she was stopped, because of her views on reproductive choice (which had nothing to do with her talk whatsoever), which makes her an “unfit role model”. Yes, social justice, integrity, non-violence… all very unfitting concepts for the Christian right it seems. (Via Feministe). [...]
More and more a single-issue church.
Two thousand years of tradition and theology, and it’s come down to All Abortion All the Time!
Now, now, be fair, zuzu. I’m sure they’d also have disinvited her if she had turned out to be a lesbian.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” does depend on who you are and obviously if you is an authoritarian who likes having your life choices limited then this all makes sense. The Catholic Church may need to rethink its promotion track practices.
you is = you are. There is not enough coffee in the world for a morning with blazing sun on ginormous piles of snow.