tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post5257458066113134946..comments2023-10-18T14:53:28.622+01:00Comments on Forest Murmurs: Amnesty InternationalFr Michael Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-43432656924738134152007-07-06T18:08:00.000+01:002007-07-06T18:08:00.000+01:00I bet you find, like me, Father, that it's easy to...I bet you find, like me, Father, that it's easy to admire and love passages of the Bible. Far harder to put them into practice consistently though, aren't they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-71795996792383611022007-07-06T09:23:00.001+01:002007-07-06T09:23:00.001+01:00Sick, thank you for sharing your favourite passage...Sick, thank you for sharing your favourite passages. A couple of them are among my favourites too. Another of my favourites is: Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."Fr Michael Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-73690348143248319792007-07-06T08:46:00.000+01:002007-07-06T08:46:00.000+01:00Some of my favourite passages from the Gospels:Jud...Some of my favourite passages from the Gospels:<BR/>Judge not that you be not judged.<BR/><BR/>How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?<BR/><BR/>Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-61706912854168621362007-07-01T19:01:00.000+01:002007-07-01T19:01:00.000+01:00David, the Catholic Church goes out of its way to ...David, the Catholic Church goes out of its way to say that homosexual people should be treated with respect and not discriminated against as Alnwickian points out. What the Catholic church does not accept is homosexual sexual activity.Fr Michael Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-79056671277346157402007-06-18T00:33:00.000+01:002007-06-18T00:33:00.000+01:00John and David:Amnesty has always had to tread a d...John and David:<BR/>Amnesty has always had to tread a difficult line. I cancelled my own support for it when it refused to campaign for gay men who had been unjustly imprisoned. I believe it has now corrected that error.<BR/>Amnesty's own statement about its position on abortion is worth reading:-<BR/>http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL300122007<BR/>As David says, the extreme reaction of the Cathoic bishops has to be read in the light of their own record. How many of them show 'respect compassion and sensitivity' towards gay people and avoid 'every sign of unjust discrimiantion in their regard' as they are bound to do by the 'official teaching of the Church'?<BR/>Amnesty's resports about Poland and Nigeria make disturbing reading - God-forsaken homes of the Religious Right.Alnwickianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00313935455554823762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-136996628347918282007-06-16T19:50:00.000+01:002007-06-16T19:50:00.000+01:00Amnesty's support of the pro abortion lobby is ind...Amnesty's support of the pro abortion lobby is indeed very regretable.As John has commented Amnesty was a fantastic organization.I still believe it is.Its record concerning Human Rights still remains far more credible than that of the R.C Chuch which continues to promote the oppression of gay people and portray them as psychologically disturbed perverts,enemies of the family etc,despite the fact that a goodly percentage of the clergy are gay !!<BR/>A case of the pot calling the kettle me thinks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-54909922804800165302007-06-15T18:06:00.000+01:002007-06-15T18:06:00.000+01:00Must make sure my kids schools know...Must make sure my kids schools know...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-43548369776395124032007-06-14T14:47:00.000+01:002007-06-14T14:47:00.000+01:00That's really a shameThat's really a shameali matahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14238429475560575621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-64935697465194123102007-06-14T14:40:00.000+01:002007-06-14T14:40:00.000+01:00This is very sad. Until now Amnesty was a fantasti...This is very sad. Until now Amnesty was a fantastic organisation.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02023211091105536469noreply@blogger.com