"You don't find out about what pedophiles think and do [unless] you talk to a man who has done pedophilia. ... there is nothing like going to first sources and photographing what you see. ... I photographed everything in the human animal when we could arrange it. ... If the FBI were to come, demand to see our histories, I would destroy them first."
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Bill Dallenbeck, Kinsey photographer and fellow pornography performer, still in residence at Indiana University. Interview performed on May 4, 1998 for the British Television program entitled "Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles." Excerpts taken from videotaped interviews used in the production of the documentary. Compiled by Judith Reisman, Ph.D., August 26, 1998.
Daly, Herman E. (Louisiana State University)
"Transferable Birth Licenses. This idea was first put forward in 1964 by Kenneth Boulding. Hardly anyone has taken it seriously, as Boulding knew would be the case. Nevertheless, it remains the best plan yet offered, if the goal is to attain aggregate stability with a minimum sacrifice of individual freedom and variability. It combines macrostability with microvariability.
"The plan is simply to issue equally to every person ... an amount of reproduction licenses that corresponds to replacement fertility. Thus each woman would receive 2.1 licenses. The licenses would be divisible in units of one-tenth, which Boulding playfully called the "deci-child." Possession of ten deci-child units confers the legal right to one birth. The licenses are freely transferable by sale or gift, so those who want more than two children and can afford to buy the extra licenses, or can acquire them by gift, are free to do so. The original distribution of the licenses is on the basis of strict equality, but exchange is permitted, leading to a reallocation in conformity with differing preferences and abilities to pay."
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Herman E. Daly [editor]. "The Steady-State Economy: Toward a Political Economy of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth." In Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essays Toward a Steady-State Economy [San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1980], page 333 [emphasis in the original] [NOTE: Mr. Daly, formerly professor of economics at Louisiana State University, is currently Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank in Washington].
Daly, Mary (dissenter)
"Thank goodness for Mary Daly, who is still sinning big, as she herself might put it. ... Daly, who refused to admit a man into her feminist ethics class at Boston College (BC), where she's been a professor for 33 years, is being threatened with a suit by a conservative Washington, D.C.-based foundation, the Center for Individual Rights (CIR). ... "Dickheads" is how Daly characterized her current enemies during a two-hour interview ... in courses in feminist ethics, she has come to believe that the presence of men changes the dynamic, draining of energy and becoming the focus of female attention. Men, she says, tend to whine about how they, too, are oppressed, and they end up being nurtured and cared for by the female students. "Many young women at Boston College today are pathologically hooked on sex, on footballs players. There are forces working to stunt their lives. I was just about the only radical voice left for them," she [Daly] insists. ... From her lectern in the classroom, Daly deconstructed the male God and Western civilization, using her theological training to reveal and uncover what she views as the lies, reversals, distortions, and madness that have stripped female divinity from women and from creation and that, she believes, now threaten all life as we know it. ... "Every time women have created, men have erased," she [Daly] says. ... Her biggest fear is that the [Daly's] books will go out of print, that she will be erased by a women-hating, women-destroying patriarchal culture. As [Frances] Kissling points out, Daly "is far more motivated by a feminist perspective than by a religious perspective. She's beyond religion. She uses religion as a tool, a metaphor, a symbol, a construct to be critiqued. She's a radical who thinks 'Get rid of the priesthood.'"
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Maria Karagianis. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." Ms. Magazine, June/July 1999, pages 56 to 59.
"Sexism was inherent in the symbol system of Christianity itself and a primary function of Christianity in Western culture has been to legitimize sexism."
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Mary Daly. The Church and the Second Sex. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985, page 17. Also quoted in Wendell W. Watters. "Rites of Compulsory Motherhood: How Sexism and Ambivalence Affect Reproductive Choice." Humanist in Canada, Autumn 1989, pages 6 to 9.
Darwin, Charles
"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poorlaws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilized society propagate their kind.
"No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is do ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed."
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Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, quoted in Mark Haller's Eugenics (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press), 1963, page 4.
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For the complete text of Darwin's book The Descent of Man, click here.
Daschle, Tom (United States Senator, [D-SD])
"What happens when [radio talk show host] Rush Limbaugh attacks those of us in public life is that people aren't satisfied just to listen. They want to act because they get emotionally invested. And so, you know, the threats to those of us in public life go up dramatically, on our families and on us, in a way that's very disconcerting.
"You know, we see it in foreign countries, and we think, 'Well, my God, how can this religious fundamentalism become so violent?' Well, it's that same shrill rhetoric, it's that same shrill power that motivates [in the United States]. And that's happening in this country. And I worry about where, over the course of the next decade, this is all going to go."
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United States Senator Tom Daschle [D-SD], during his last few hours as Senate Majority Leader on November 20, 2002, whining to the media that talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and the "religious right" have created a climate of hate in this country. Quoted on "Daschle's Slurs on Limbaugh, Talk Radio Blasted." NewsMax.com, November 21, 2002.
David, Beth (National Organization for Women (NOW))
"So the women are still being hassled because they let some of the sidewalk counselors stay out, and that's the next step forward, I think [to eliminate sidewalk counseling]. Not just gaining access, not just having the injunctions to write them and all that stuff, but to say "No." Even if you're out there and you're not physically diving at doorways or knocking us down, you're still violating our rights. I do not want to see a church service when I'm going in to see my gynecologist."
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Beth David, at the National Organization for Women (NOW) National Conference, New York City, July 5, 1991.
Davila, Valida
"We believe children should begin sex at birth. It causes a lot of problems not to practice incest."
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Valida Davila of San Diego's Childhood Sensuality Circle, quoted in John Leo. "Cradle-to-Grave Intimacy." Time Magazine, September 7, 1981, page 69.
Davis, Gray (former Governor of California)
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state."
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Former California Governor Gray Davis, in a September 18, 2003 speech. "Quote of the Week." Human Events, Week of September 29, 2003, page 1.
Davis, Julianne Ross (National Endowment for the Arts (NEA))
"The American Family Association has a 24-point political agenda it would like to see attained by the year 2000. It includes the elimination of democracy, elimination of public schools, advocates that astrologers, adulterers, blasphemers, homosexuals, and incorrigible children be executed, preferably by stoning. That's one of our enemies. This is true."
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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) General Counsel Julianne Ross Davis, quoted in "AFA Sues NEA General Counsel." The Wanderer, December 6, 1990, page 2 [NOTE: When members of the public and of Congress objected to Davis' lies, NEA Chairman John Frohnmeyer vigorously defended her by stating under oath that Davis presented "... the views and position of the NEA. In fact, the statements that Ms. Davis made during the public presentation that the plaintiffs complain of were not only part of her official duties, but are also exactly the type of speech that she is employed to perform" ("Federal Judge Restrains NEA's Top Lawyer on AFA Comments." American Family Association Journal, July 1991, page 10)].
Davis, Kingsley (Zero Population Growth (ZPG))
"The current belief that illegitimacy will be reduced if teenage girls are given an effective contraceptive is an extension of the same reasoning that created the problem in the first place. It reflects an unwillingness to face problems of social control and social discipline, while trusting some technological device to extricate society from its difficulties. The irony is that the illegitimacy rise occurred precisely while contraceptive use was becoming more, rather than less, widespread and respectable."
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Professor Kingsley Davis of the United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. "The American Family, Relation to Demographic Change." Research Reports, United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. Volume I, Demographic and Social Aspects of Population Growth, edited by Robert Parke, Jr., and Charles F. Westoff. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1972, page 253.
"Accidental pregnancies beyond the limit would be interrupted by abortion. If a third child were born without a license, or a fourth, the mother would be sterilized and the child given to a sterile couple. But anyone enticed into making such a suggestion risks being ostracized as a political or moral leper, a danger to society. He is accused of wanting to take people's freedom away from them and institute a Draconian dictatorship over private lives. Obviously then reproductive freedom still takes a priority over population control. This makes a solution of the population problem impossible because, by definition, population control and reproductive freedom are incompatible."
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Kingsley Davis of Zero Population Growth (ZPG). Daedalus, Fall 1973, 28, cited in Herman E. Daly. "The Steady-State Economy: Toward a Political Economy of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth." In Herman E. Daly [editor]. Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essays Toward a Steady-State Economy [San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1980], page 335.
"The number of children couples want, however, unless it is influenced by deliberate policy, is not likely to be the number a society should have. Uncontrolled private goals seldom bring collective welfare. Traffic congestion is not avoided by letting each person drive as he pleases, air pollution by letting each individual burn as he wishes, or drug addiction by letting each person deal in narcotics he wants. Analogously, excessive reproduction will hardly be stopped by letting each person multiply as he desires."
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Professor Kingsley Davis. "The Climax of Population Growth." California Medicine, November 1970, page 36.
Dawkins, Richard (author of The God Delusion)
"If you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them."
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion. "From the Afterword." The Sunday Herald [Scotland], November 20, 2006; Hilary White. "Anti-Religion Extremist Dawkins Advocates Eugenics." LifeSite Daily News, November 21, 2006.
Day, Lincoln H. and Alice Taylor
"A large family can no longer in itself be viewed as a social contribution. If the parents of three children decide to have a fourth, it should be with the full awareness that they are choosing to indulge their personal desires at the expense of the welfare of their society."
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Lincoln H. Day and Alice Taylor Day. Too Many Americans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964, pages 133 to 135 and 233.
de Moraes, Lisa
"We are often judgmental about people that are different from us and we don't even understand what their problems are. A lot of students got killed at Tiananmen Square, but I remember several students got killed at Kent State. And, remember, they have a lot more students than we do. We shot down our own students. They have different problems than we have. We're not very sympathetic of that. They have five times as many people in a country slightly smaller than ours with far less good agricultural land and far less water.
"I've said for years that all men should be banned from any kind of political office for 100 years. Let the women run the world for a while. Women don't look at things the same; they don't have all that testosterone in them."
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Lisa de Moraes, Washington Post News Service. "Ted Turner Tries Again to Create a Brave New World." September 25, 1998.
De Sade, Marquis
"This state will forever be poor, if its population surpasses the means by which it can subsist. ... Do you not prune the tree when it has overmany branches? But it is not at the moment that, when man reaches maturity, one must destroy him in order to reduce population. It is unjust to cut short the days of a well-shaped person; it is not unjust, I say, to prevent the arrival in the world of a being who will certainly be useless to it. ... The penalty against child-murdering mothers is an unexampled atrocity. Who then has a greater right to dispose of the fruit than she who carries it in her womb? ... To interfere with the usage a woman chooses to make of it is stupidity carried beyond any conceivable extreme."
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The Marquis de Sade. "Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen." Juliette [New York City: Grove Paperbacks, Inc.], 1968 reprint, pages 336, 782 and 783.
"Do not put up with these disgraceful fruits of one's debauchery. One disposes of these hideous consequences in the same way as the results of one's digestion."
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The Marquis de Sade. La Philosophie dans le Boudoir [Paris: Pauvert Publishers, 1970 reprint], page 59b [NOTE: The primary characteristics of La Philosophie dans le Boudoir are vividly duplicated in much of today's anti-life literature, in that it was virulently anti-religious and anti-morality, viciously attacked the family and social structures, and enthusiastically advocated sodomy, incest, lust and cruelty for their own sakes. Note also that de Sade trivializes abortion, saying that it is as trivial as "disposing of the results of one's digestion," much as latter-day pro-abortionists have likened abortion to "removing a wart or a fingernail"].
Dean, Morton (ABC)
"For more than 70 years, Russia dreamed the Soviet dream: The dream of a classless society, the dream of a workers' paradise. The classless state is now a state with a growing population of haves and an exploding population of have-nots. For many, the workers' paradise has become a homeless hell."
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ABC's Morton Dean, January 14, 1994 "Good Morning America."
de Beauvoir, Simone
"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. ... Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice too many women will make that one."
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Simone de Beauvoir, quoted by Christina Hoff Summers. Who Stole Feminism? [New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1994], page 256. Also in Dale O'Leary. The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality [Lafayette, Louisiana: Vital Issues Press, 1997], page 124.
Declaration of Feminism
"All of history must be re-written in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft. ...
"Women, having spent their lives in servitude and in meeting others [sic] human needs, will be the first to understand the need for a socialist revolution ... While we must not minimize the social and class differences among us, the existence of a common domain gives us hope and sustains us in our struggle toward a Feminist-Socialist Revolution ... Feminism rests on the belief that it is up to women to rescue the planet from the deeds of patriarchy and that women will join hands to build a Feminist-Socialist Revolution ... The whole idea of nations is crazy."
"Heterosexual relationships are by their very nature oppressive to women in a male-dominated society ... The man is expected to be aggressive, strong, virile, self-centered, and a good f—er while the woman is expected to be self-sacrificing, passive, docile, weak, and responsive to men's initiatives. These roles ensure the oppression of women by men in a heterosexual relationship.
"Within the institution of marriage a woman is legally required to perform sexually for her husband at his command ... Male society has sold us the idea of marriage. In the past we women have been afraid to admit that marriage wasn't all it was cracked up to be because it meant we had failed. Now we know it is the institution that has failed us and we must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men ... The nuclear family must be replaced with a new form of family where individuals live and work together to help to meet the needs of all people in the society [emphasis in original].
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The Document: Declaration of Feminism. Originally distributed in June of 1971 by Nancy Lehmann and Helen Sullinger of Post Office Box 7064, Powderhorn Station, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407.
Delany, Samuel R. (science fiction writer)
"I read the NAMBLA [Bulletin] fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found. I think before you start judging what NAMBLA is about, expose yourself to it and see what it is really about. What the issues they are really talking about, and deal with what's really there rather than this demonized notion of guys running about trying to screw little boys. I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13."
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Samuel R. Delany, science fiction writer, Queer Desires Forum, New York City, June 25, 1994. This quote was downloaded from the Web site of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) at http://www.nambla.org on April 15, 1998, under the section entitled "What People Are Saying About NAMBLA and Man/Boy Love."
DeLariam, Lea ('comic')
"Twelve years of Catholic school. I was a naughty little girl and I thought if I could make that nun laugh, she wouldn't hit me with that ruler. I owe it all to nuns that I'm a comic and a lesbian."
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Comic Lea DeLariam in the Winter 1997 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1997 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Democratic Party
"Democrats stand behind the right of every woman to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, regardless of ability to pay, and support a national law to protect that right. It is a fundamental constitutional liberty that individual Americans — not Government — can best take responsibility for making the most difficult and intensely personal decisions regarding reproduction. The goal of our nation must be to make abortion less necessary, not difficult or more dangerous. We pledge to support contraceptive research, family planning, comprehensive family life education, and support healthy childbearing and enable parents to care most effectively for their children."
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1992 Democratic Party "plank" on abortion.
"You cannot be both pro-life and a Democrat."
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The Democratic Party, as stated to Jackie Schweitz, a member of the National Pro-Life Democrats and a delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention, justifying illegally barring all pro-life Democrats from attending numerous state caucus meetings.
The 'single-issue' charge, of course, is only employed if it is a Neoliberal ox that is being gored. For example, the 1980 Democratic Party platform contained the plank: "The Democratic Party shall withhold financial support and technical campaign assistance from candidates who do not support the ERA."
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From the 1980 Democratic Party "plank" on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), as described in W. Shepherdson Abell. "Abortion a Moral Issue, Not Dogma." Human Life Review, Fall 1981, page 111.
Denes, Magda
"I do think abortion is murder — of a very special and necessary sort. What else would one call the deliberate stilling of a life? And no physician involved with the procedure ever kids himself about that ... legalistic distinctions among "homicide," "justified homicide," "self-defense," and "murder" appear to me a semantic game. What difference does it make what we call it? Those who do it and those who witness its doing know that abortion is the stilling of a life.
"I look inside the bucket in front of me. There is a small naked person in there floating in a bloody liquid — plainly the tragic victim of a drowning accident. But then perhaps this was no accident, because the body is purple with bruises and the face has the agonized tautness of one forced to die too soon. I have seen this face before, on a Russian soldier lying on a frozen snow-covered hill, stiff with death and cold ..."
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Magda Denes. "Performing Abortions." Commentary, October 1976, pages 33 to 37. [NOTE: This is a truly frightening and profoundly sickening article by a doctor who observes and describes in graphic detail a number of saline abortions and their results. She acknowledges that abortion is killing, but a type of "necessary" killing. Also see the "Letters" sections in the December 1976 and February 1977 issues of Commentary].
Denniston, George C.
"The Roman Catholic Hierarchy has taken an immoral position on population control, inimical to the entire world, in an effort to protect its own power. This is what Steve Mumford's penetrating new book is all about."
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George C. Denniston, M.D., Seattle, Washington, commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Dershowitz, Alan (Harvard law professor)
"[Pornography Commission members] have allied themselves with some of the most repressive, un-American elements in society. This whole thing has been like the Soviet Union holding hearings on how the Bible causes perversion and violence. ... You hold these hearings and invite every sort of sickie and born-again to come in and blame their problems on devil pornography."
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Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, testifying on behalf of Penthouse Magazine before the Attorney General's Pornography Commission hearings in New York. "Harvard Law Professor Testifies for Pornographers." National Federation for Decency Journal, April 1986, page 20 [NOTE: Dershowitz called the Commission "One of the most un-American activities I have witnessed"].
Detjen, Jim
"Neomort: A body sustained by artificial life support systems to be used for drug research, development of new surgical techniques, practice for new surgeons and as a storage place for blood and organs.
Neomortoriums: Places for the storage of brain-dead bodies because such storage places would solve the dilemma of storing certain organs outside of the bodies."
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Jim Detjen. "Proposals to Enlist the Dead in Research." Philadelphia Enquirer, August 12, 1986.
Detroit Women's Liberation Coalition (DWLC)
"Cahalan, for you we made this hex; The souls of our sisters called forth the moon; to cover the sun and bring on your doom."
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'Witches' from the Detroit Women's Liberation Coalition, chanting outside the office of county prosecutor William Cahalan in March 1970. Detroit Free Press, March 8, 1970. Recounted in Judith Hole and Ellen Levine. Rebirth of Feminism. Quadrangle Books: New York, 1971, page 298.
De Wachter, Maurice
"The Netherlands is what I would like to call a test case for an experiment in medical ethics. ... There is a practice growing where doctors feel at ease with helping patients to die, in other words killing them."
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Maurice De Wachter, director of the Institute for Bioethics in Maastricht, The Netherlands, quoted in John Henley, Associated Press. "Dutch Euthanasia Rule Stirs Ethical Conflicts." The Oregonian, February 11, 1993, page A9.
Dewey, John
"The school as a social center means the active and organized promotion of this socialism of the intangible things of art, science, and other modes of social intercourse."
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John Dewey, the "Father of progressive American education," quoted in Jon Barton and John W. Whitehead, Schools on Fire. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1980, page 65.
Dickens, Barnard M.
"Alarm over the prospect that prenatal diagnostic techniques, which permit identification of fetal sex and facilitate abortion of healthy but unwanted female fetuses has led some to urge their outright prohibition. This article argues against that response. ... conditions in some societies may sometime render excusable the inclination to abort certain healthy female fetuses ... care must be taken to resist ethical imperialism which projects one country's values onto other communities existing in different circumstances."
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Bernard M. Dickens, "Prenatal Diagnosis and Female Abortion: A Case Study in Medical Law and Ethics." Journal of Medical Ethics, September 1986, pages 143 and 144.
Dickman, Irving R.
"[Question] 14. Will sex education in the schools encourage kids to be sexually active?
"[Answer]: By the best evidence, that is a myth. Or an invention — to use a charitable term — designed to prey on the fears of anxious parents."
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Irving R. Dickman, of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). Winning the Battle for Sex Education. SIECUS, 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 801, New York, New York 10011, 1982.
"I am a married lesbian Catholic priest. Within weeks, my partner and I will be welcoming a child into our family, so I'll soon add "mother" to the list of seemingly contradictory identities I bear. I often wonder how I was able to arrive at this point, after a childhood in a church that offered me only three possible futures: wife and mother, nun or unmarried caregiver. ...
"I was asked to preach and then to co-preside at mass alongside ordained presiders and subsequently led Holy Week services. Members of Dignity — even some who declared doubt over whether women should even be ordained — called me a "priest." No bishop ever ordained me, but I believe that my community's calling me forward to ministry is a more valid reflection of my priesthood than what any bishop could ever confer, and speaks to the possibilities of a healthier model of church than what most of us currently know.
"Four years ago, my partner and I decided we were ready to formalize our commitment to each other. Catholic sacramental theology is very meaningful to both of us, and we struggled with how we could and should honor our relationship in a public way. Ultimately, we decided to invite our families, friends, faith community and co-workers to witness us as we joined in the Sacrament of Marriage, and we used that language in the invitations. We firmly believe that we did indeed celebrate a sacrament as we stood before the altar in our church, surrounded by 250 people, and made vows of love and faithfulness to one another.
"What I have realized over time is that in each of these experiences, as church officials declare over and over that I do not conform, I force the church to make room for me just by remaining within it. My conscious, deliberate presence redefines the reality of Catholicism."
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Marianne Duddy, Executive Director of Dignity, a group of unrepentant 'Catholic' homosexuals. "Breaking the Mold." In "An Enlightened Church: Letters to Young Catholics." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], pages 7 to 21.
"Gay priests have been carrying out the church's work for decades. They've preached the Gospel, visited the sick, comforted the dying and the grieving, celebrated marriages, baptized children — all the things faithful Catholics hope for from their pastors. Now, when the church faces a crisis, its leaders are willing to sacrifice these good men. How is that a Christian approach?"
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Marianne Duddy, executive director of the homosexual group Dignity USA, quoted in "Clergy Sex Scandal Used to Garner Homosexual Sympathy." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, May 14, 2002.
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Father John McNeill, S.J., founder of the dissenting pro-homosexual 'Catholic' organization Dignity, quoted in "Jesuit Founder of Dignity Dismissed After Defying Order to Be Silent." ALL News, February 16, 1987 [NOTE: Father John McNeill has been dismissed from his Order for causing "widespread grave external scandal"].
"Bible texts do not address adult, loving homosexual relations as we understand them today ... Neither Scripture nor Tradition nor natural law theory nor human science nor personal experience convincingly supports official Catholic teaching about the immorality of homogenital acts. Accordingly, and after much soul-searching, many gay and lesbian Catholics have formed consciences that differ from official Church teaching and have entered into homosexual relationships. In this respect they are exactly like the many married Catholic couples who cannot accept the official teaching on contraception ... Can someone be involved in a lesbian or gay relationship and still be a faithful Catholic? Certainly yes, not as a matter of public Church teaching but only as a matter of conscience, only as a matter of personal application of the whole of Catholic teaching to their particular case.
"In [its] national convention in 1987, Dignity/USA declared that it believes lesbian and gay people may indeed engage in loving, life-giving, and life-affirming sex, always in an ethically responsible and unselfish way."
"[The organization] Courage aims to have people restrain and control their "sickness." Such a negative starting point, which ignores the bulk of current scientific opinion, can hardly foster personal integration, emotional well-being, or real holiness" [NOTE: What they are saying is that the practice of self-control and self-discipline in avoiding a mortal sin is evil, but wallowing in sodomy promotes real holiness].
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Dignity/USA brochure entitled "Catholicism, Homosexuality and Dignity: Questions & Answers About Being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered and Catholic. 1996.
Direct Action (environmental terrorist group)
"We must make this an insecure and uninhabitable place for capitalists and their projects. This is the best contribution we can make towards protecting the earth and struggling for a liberated society."
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Letter from an environmental group calling itself "Direct Action," as described in Ron Arnold. "Eco-Terrorism." Reason, February 1983, pages 31 to 36 [NOTE: In May of 1982, ecoterrorists bombed four British Columbia Hydro 500-kilovolt transformers, causing $6 million in damage. Police received the above note, which also which condemned 'patriarchy'].
Distasio, Phillip (pedophile)
"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms. ... Not all pedophilia is bad, and sex [with boys] can be healthy."
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Phillip Distasio, while facing 74 charges, including child rape, drug possession and obsenity in an Ohio court. Quoted in Gary L. Bauer's American Values, August 3, 2006.
Doerr, Edd (Americans for Religious Liberty)
"We can expect school Bible clubs to bring in adult missionaries to proselytize students as young as 11 or 12 without parental consent; divisiveness as students self-select into sectarian clubs on school premises; disappearance of traditional extracurricular activities; disruption of schools by such groups as the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and anti-women's right clubs."
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Excellent example of alarmist propaganda by Edd Doerr of "Americans for Religious Liberty," released for the purpose of supporting the censorship of the Christian viewpoint. Quoted in Conservative Chronicle, July 25, 1990, page 30.
"According to a myth carefully cultivated by the advocates of tax aid for sectarian private schools and of school-sponsored religious teaching of devotions, and accepted uncritically by many others who have no ax to grind, our country's public schools are "promoting the religion of secular humanism." The charge is sometimes as hard to refute as a drunk's claim that he is being pursued by purple polka-dot pterodactyls."
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Edd Doerr. "The Myth of Public-School Humanism." The Organized Attack on Public Education From the New Right. Texas State Teachers Association (Affiliated with the National Education Association), 316 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Texas 78701. 125 pages, undated.
"But the new [abortion] decisions come so close to allowing what the average man would call "abortion on demand" that Justice Burger might have saved his breath. By neatly dividing pregnancy into three trimesters and subjecting a woman only to medical restrictions imposed in good faith in the first two trimesters, the Court has given the abortion movement practically what it asked for."
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Edd Doerr and Paul Blanshard. "A Glorious Victory." The Humanist, May/June 1973, page 6.
Donahue, Phil
Phil Donahue: "Let's fight Communism by making it safe for your mother to be on the New York subway. Let's fight Communism that way. Let's make America work. You and the Reagan ideologues have spent us into oblivion — our children are going to have to pay this bill — and you step forward, like some religious figure saying, "more bombs, more bullets, let's get the beachhead!" Now the beachhead, as, like, Managua's a beachhead like World War II. You're living like in an old '40's movie ..."
Pat Buchanan: "Phil, calm down."
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Exchange on the April 25, 1988 Donahue Show.
"The [Catholic] Church has always thrived on ignorance and oppression."
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Phil Donahue, interviewed by Pat Buchanan on CNN's Larry King Live, May 31, 1988.
Donaldson, Sam (ABC)
"For ten years Ronald Reagan taught us there was a free lunch. 'Folks,' he said, 'we're going to cut your taxes and we're going to spend like there's no tomorrow and you don't have to pay for it.' Folks, we're now paying for it and it's bitter medicine. ... we're going to have to raise taxes to get some sort of fairness here. ... For ten years the great wizard sold us that idea, that we could grow our way out of the deficits and we bought it, and we didn't."
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Sam Donaldson on "This Week" with David Brinkley, October 7, 1990.
"If you take that penny, for instance, out of the National Institutes of Health grants, that may be the penny that cures cancer. Are you willing to do that?"
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ABC's Sam Donaldson to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay on the proposed 1.4 percent across-the-board non-entitlement spending reduction, October 24, 1999 "This Week."
"In 1981, Ronald Reagan lowered my income rate, terrific, my tax rate. Then he indexed my taxes. He didn't explain to me how government could index what it bought. The way it worked under Ronald Reagan was I couldn't creep into a higher bracket and pay more in taxes. ... It's time that people like me start paying more of a fair share, and it's time that people started giving up their subsidies, and I agree we need more cuts. And we will return to fiscal responsibility and away from the la-la land of the Reagan-Bush era."
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ABC reporter Sam Donaldson at the Conservative Political Action Conference, February 20, 1993.
"Bob Michel is a great guy but his time was up. He was a moderate, and it's the unmoderates who control the House Republicans, that is, the Newt Gingriches of the world, the firebomb throwers: Burn this village in order to save it, destroy the House in order to try to elect Republicans, have term limitations. ... Bomb throwers don't believe in civility, bomb throwers believe in throwing bombs . ... opposing every principle of the other party simply for partisan opposition."
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Sam Donaldson on "This Week with David Brinkley," October 10, 1993.
"Newt Gingrich's problem, I've always thought, he's like Lenin. They both made a revolution by shooting people — Newt shot Democrats, Lenin shot everybody — and then they didn't have enough sense to stop shooting once they won. So, I mean, once you win, you say, 'Okay, now I've shot all your relatives, but you're a good guy, let's work together.' Instead, Newt shut down the government and kept on trying to shoot Democrats."
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ABC's Sam Donaldson on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, January 8, 1997.
Sam Donaldson: "I think Governor Weld has done this country a service in a sense, even though I think that he's been shot down in the ocean now, and that is by allowing the country to see Senator Helms in action. Over the years I've run into him two or three times at receptions here and he's the most gentlemanly, courtly, friendly, pleasant individual you would ever hope to meet. But, when you see him in action, you see beneath that courtliness beats the heart of a dictator and I think the country is appalled."
George Stephanopoulos: "Or a terrorist. The President is really, I think made a mistake because he's been negotiating with a terrorist here."
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Exchange on ABC's "This Week," September 14, 1997.
"The President's [Clinton] very shrewd, he's very good, he's the best retail politician I've ever seen, meaning he will charm — forgive the expression, it's a fine expression — charm the pants off of you if he's in the same room with you."
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Sam Donaldson on CNBC's "Hardball," quoted in "Stupid Quotes," The Limbaugh Letter, July 1998, page 8.
"Don't Close The Adult Clubs" (Yahoo! sex club)
"To Whom It May Concern:
"It has come to our attention that your company is associated with the American Family Association's online shopping website entitled "Kingdombuy.com." This organization, while claiming to be "pro-family," is actually in effect pro-censorship who's [sic] tactics include, but are not limited to, activism which promotes the creation and/or changing of state and national laws which severly [sic] limits individuals' rights of free choice. We find this organization's viewpoints and tactics extremely narrow-minded and oftentimes underhanded.
"We have done numerous purchases of products from your business in the past. Your company is, of course, free to support, associate and align itself with whatever organizations it sees fit. However, we, in good conscience, choose not to do business with or purchase products from a company that chooses to associate itself with an organization so adamant in their desire to strip people of their freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of individual choice. Therefore, we have decided to cease purchasing items from your business until such time that you decide against allying yourselves with such organizations. This is an issue we feel strongly about, and we hope you will take this letter into consideration."
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Suggested Yahoo! sex club named "Don't Close The Adult Clubs" letter sent to the J.C. Penney's and Nordstrom's department stores in a successful effort to get it to sever ties with the American Family Association's KingdomBuy.com, a Christian online shopping mall, quoted in "JC Penney Drops Online Christian Mall: Targeted by Yahoo! Sex Club Members, JC Penney Bolts." American Family Association Action Alert dated May 23, 2001. Downloaded from http://www.afa.net/activism/aa052301.asp on June 1, 2001 (no longer available).
Dorfman, Sally Faith
"A compassionate and sensitive sonographer should remember to turn the screen away from the plane of view [of the patient]. Staff too may find themselves increasingly disturbed by the repeated visual impact of an aspect of their work that they need to partially deny in order to continue to function optimally and to concentrate on the needs of the women who come to them for help."
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Transcript excerpts from a talk entitled "Abortion Update" (talk no. 1065), given by Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman, director of Family Planning, Development, and Research at Albert Einstein Medical College in New York, at the American Public Health Conference, November 18, 1985, in Washington, D.C. Recorded by Robert G. Marshall, director of research, Castello Institute.
dos Santos, Eliad Dias
"The churches are still helping women feel guilty for being women. The patriarchal and sexist discourse of many of our churches has contributed to maintaining the sin of hypocrisy, both inside and outside the church. Remember that these women are also children of God. The church needs to receive them with respect, not blaming them for the "sin" of easy and cheap sex. The church can help them to recover their self-esteem and dignity. The church can be a sign of love and hope."
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Methodist 'clergyperson' Eliad Dias dos Santos attacking the Catholic Church, during a speech she gave at the First National Prostitute Rally in Brazil, funded by the World Council of Churches (WCC). Quoted in Paul Jeffrey. "Brazilian Prostitutes Lobby for Respect." National Catholic Reporter, November 14, 1997, page 12.
Doughtry, Herbert
"All of us must share the blame. This is a violent society. We are all guilty for creating it, and we must work to eliminate it."
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The 'Reverend' Herbert Doughtry of Brooklyn, excusing the April 1989 "wilding" rampage of thirty New York City teenagers in Central Park. "Wilding" consists of going on a rampage of violence for the pure fun of it, attacking, robbing and raping any person unfortunate enough to come in sight of the "wilders." These thugs, among other acts, beat a female jogger with bricks and repeatedly raped her, leaving her in a coma. Quoted in The Oregonian, April 30, 1989, page D3.
Douglass, Linda (CBS)
"[The bill would ban] rare, late-term abortions, usually done only in cases where the fetus is severely deformed."
"Experts estimate that partial-birth abortion accounts for perhaps 600 of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. ... In many such abortions, the fetus is so severely deformed or the pregnancy so complicated that carrying the child to term would threaten the life or health of the mother."
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Correspondent Linda Douglass, CBS's This Morning, September 20, 1997, and Time Magazine, September 30, 1997.
Downs, Hugh (ABC)
"We should avoid focusing exclusively on the rage and inappropriate behavior of oppressed and frustrated people who started these riots."
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Hugh Downs of ABC's "20/20," May 1, 1992, commenting on the Los Angeles riots that killed more than 50 people and caused billions of dollars in property damage.
"During times of social stress, humanity regresses into the family. ... In the 1920's, the KKK urged the nation to adopt family values and to return to old-time religion. Similarly, Adolf Hitler launched a family-values regimen. Hitler centered on his ideas of motherhood. Fanatics in the KKK, the Nazi Party, the Hezbollah, or any other intolerant organization, refer to themselves as religious warriors. As warriors, fanatics censor the thoughts of others and love to burn books. In the modern United States, new proponents of family values continue this tradition of fear and intolerance."
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Hugh Downs, host of ABC's "20/20" television program, during his commentary made on ABC Radio's "Perspective" program. Reported in Citizen Magazine, March 15, 1993.
Doyle, Suzanne Cooper (Feminist Women's Health Centers (FWHCs))
"Fertility Awareness poses a big threat to the hormonal contraceptive industry. If women are given the choice of the Pill or implants with their side effects, lack of STD protection, expense, and reliance on doctors; or Fertility Awareness, with or without barrier methods, which seems the more logical choice? Both have the same effectiveness (98.5 - 99.2 percent). Fertility Awareness costs nothing to use, has no side effects, and puts reproductive responsibility firmly in the hands of the user."
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Suzanne Cooper Doyle. "Fertility Awareness: Reclaiming Reproductive Control." WomenWise (publication of the New Hampshire Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers), Summer 1991, pages 6 and 8.
Draper, William (International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF))
"The methods and techniques used in the People's Republic of China will be of great interest to other nations. ... Why not adopt China's population goals and methods?"
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William Draper and Andrew O'Meara of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), quoted in Wenming Su (editor). Population and Other Problems. Beijing Review Special Feature Series #1. April 1981, 95 pages.
Drinan, Father Robert (dissenter)
"As a Catholic, Jesuit, and priest, I'm against it [abortion], except for women!"
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Pro-abortion Congressman and priest Robert Drinan (D.-Ma.), quoted in "Drinan ... One Exception." National Right to Life News, August 1979, page 5.
"I feel that hopefully we now have an impetus going in the Congress which will never allow [a pro-life Human Life Amendment] to become the law of the land. I have regularly received excellent information from your organization and will continue to rely upon you and your associates."
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Letter of Father Robert Drinan, S.J., to the president of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, August 5, 1974, cited by Mary Meehan in Our Sunday Visitor, September 8, 1996, page 9.
Duddy, Marianne (Dignity USA)
"I am a married lesbian Catholic priest. Within weeks, my partner and I will be welcoming a child into our family, so I'll soon add "mother" to the list of seemingly contradictory identities I bear. I often wonder how I was able to arrive at this point, after a childhood in a church that offered me only three possible futures: wife and mother, nun or unmarried caregiver. ...
"I was asked to preach and then to co-preside at mass alongside ordained presiders and subsequently led Holy Week services. Members of Dignity — even some who declared doubt over whether women should even be ordained — called me a "priest." No bishop ever ordained me, but I believe that my community's calling me forward to ministry is a more valid reflection of my priesthood than what any bishop could ever confer, and speaks to the possibilities of a healthier model of church than what most of us currently know.
"Four years ago, my partner and I decided we were ready to formalize our commitment to each other. Catholic sacramental theology is very meaningful to both of us, and we struggled with how we could and should honor our relationship in a public way. Ultimately, we decided to invite our families, friends, faith community and co-workers to witness us as we joined in the Sacrament of Marriage, and we used that language in the invitations. We firmly believe that we did indeed celebrate a sacrament as we stood before the altar in our church, surrounded by 250 people, and made vows of love and faithfulness to one another.
"What I have realized over time is that in each of these experiences, as church officials declare over and over that I do not conform, I force the church to make room for me just by remaining within it. My conscious, deliberate presence redefines the reality of Catholicism."
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Marianne Duddy, Executive Director of Dignity, a group of unrepentant 'Catholic' homosexuals. "Breaking the Mold." In "An Enlightened Church: Letters to Young Catholics." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], pages 7 to 21.
"Gay priests have been carrying out the church's work for decades. They've preached the Gospel, visited the sick, comforted the dying and the grieving, celebrated marriages, baptized children — all the things faithful Catholics hope for from their pastors. Now, when the church faces a crisis, its leaders are willing to sacrifice these good men. How is that a Christian approach?"
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Marianne Duddy, executive director of the homosexual group Dignity USA, quoted in "Clergy Sex Scandal Used to Garner Homosexual Sympathy." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, May 14, 2002.
Duffy, Michael (Time Magazine)
"Ever since the Clarence Thomas hearings last fall, the Republican Party has been struggling to overcome the perception that its regard for women is only a notch or two higher than that of the Navy Tailhook Association."
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Time Magazine reporter Michael Duffy, August 24, 1992 issue.
Duke, Paul (PBS)
"One of my losers of the year is David Brock, who wrote that slimy magazine article that revived all those charges about Bill Clinton's personal behavior, and I regarded that as journalism which is truly out of bounds."
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PBS "Washington Week in Review" moderator Paul Duke, December 31, 1993.
Duke, Winston L.
"There is little evidence that termination of an infant's life in the first few months following extraction from the womb could be looked upon as murder ... It would seem to be more 'inhumane' to kill an adult chimpanzee than a newborn baby, since the chimpanzee has greater mental awareness. Murder cannot logically apply to a life form with less mental awareness than a primate."
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Winston L. Duke. "The New Biology." Reason, August 1972.
Dumanowski, Dianne
"There is no such thing as objective reporting. ... I've become even more crafty about finding the voices to say the things I think are true. That's my subversive mission."
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Boston Globe environmental reporter Dianne Dumanoski at an Utne Reader symposium, May 17-20, 1990. Quoted by Micah Morrison in the July 1990 American Spectator.
Dunphy, John J.
"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being ... The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new — the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evil and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of "love thy neighbor" will finally be achieved."
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John J. Dunphy. "A Religion for a New Age." The Humanist, January/February 1983, page 26.
Durang, Christopher (anti-Catholic 'playwright')
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Just as all forms of artificial birth control go against the natural purpose of conjugal relations — namely procreation — so the use of all form of man-made anti-biotics interferes with the God-given design of bacteria and viruses and how He intends them to interact with the human body.
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Further, in light of this knowledge of the proper moral order between bacteria-and-viruses and the human body, the church calls man back to the observance of the norms of the natural law, and teaches that each and every bacteria-body interaction must remain open to the transmission of infection. ... The faithful are admonished to remember that inside the Holy Father's head, he hears not only his own voice but also the voice of God (vox Dei). ...
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Respect for God's order by reason teaches us that it is immoral to impede development of a natural process. That is why we have so exhaustively spoken out against artificial birth control and now anti-biotics. ...
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We cannot wait to get to the developing countries and stop them from using anti-biotics.
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Syphilis. God created syphilis to infect sexually immoral people, and cause them suffering and eventual death, In no way should a man-made anti-biotic interfere with this God-given process. ... It is especially sinful to use anti-biotics to block the natural path of syphilis as intended by God."
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Christopher Durang. "The Lost Encyclical Against Penicillin: Written after reading Humanae Vitae, with a nod to Swift's "Modest Proposal." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Winter 1993/1994 [Volume XIV, Number 4], page 33. This article is part of the commentary "Tarnished Silver Anniversary: Reflections on Humanae Vitae" [NOTE: The "credits" at the bottom of this satire say "Christopher Durang, a playwright, won the Tony Award for Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You." This is a virulently anti-Catholic play which mocks the most basic beliefs of Catholics].
"Would you trust a chef who never eats food? Or a car mechanic who never drives a car? Or a swimming coach who's never been in the water? It's an old liberal complaint, of course — sexual morality being dictated by a celibate, male clergy. But old complaint or not, that sure is a loony place to look to for wisdom and guidance on sexuality. ... I don't have an interest in any way in anything the Vatican is likely to say. ... When I was fourteen, I witnessed a very dramatic example of the sad and illogical tyranny of the Vatican view of sexuality and how it has affected all of us, especially women. ... Alanon teaches that you can't control another person's behavior. The pope might consider attending Alanon. Is it available in the Vatican State, I wonder? ... For centuries the church has allowed killing in so-called just wars, but allowing an impediment to pregnancy during intercourse? Heavens, no! Christ would not want it. Christ would accept killing — sure, bomb Hiroshima, Christ would say. ... But I do feel anger at the church's incredible pig-headedness. ..."
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Christopher Durang. "Natural Law and Disorder." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Spring/Summer 1995 [Volume XVI, Numbers 1 and 2], pages 7 and 8.
Dynes, Wayne
"I guess it shows how far we've traveled from reality that people don't realize that an intergenerational sexual relationship [incest] could be and should be character building. [I am] not sure that a 7-year-old can give informed consent. That doesn't mean that one should necessarily exclude sexual relations with them."
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Wayne Dynes, Ph.D., quoted in Michael Ebert. "Pedophilia Steps Into the Daylight." Focus on the Family Citizen, November 16, 1992, pages 6 to 8.
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