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Permalink Reply by Michel on March 15, 2012 at 4:32pm

The videos are available for embedding.

They are really worth watching even though she's still a believer in woowoo, so here they are:

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on March 15, 2012 at 8:54pm

She did not quit being a believer in Christ as god, etc., but I take my hat off to her for not being an enabler.

Open Letter to Liberal and Nominal Roman Catholics:

You Are An Enabler, and It's Got To Stop!
Leave the Catholic Church!

 

Annie Laurie Gaylor
Co-President, Freedom From Religion Foundation

 

Annie Laurie Gaylor

Dear Liberal Catholic: It's time to quit the Roman Catholic Church. It's your moment of truth. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the ark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on, anyway?

It is time to make known your dissent from the Catholic Church in light of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops' ruthless campaign endangering the right to contraception. If you're part of the Catholic Church, you're part of the problem.

Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? Why are you aiding and abetting a church that has repeatedly and publicly announced a crusade to ban contraception, abortion and sterilization, and to deny the right of all women everywhere, Catholic or not, to decide whether and when to become mothers?

When it comes to reproductive freedom, the Roman Catholic Church is Public Enemy Number One. Think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of the Church's antiquated doctrine that birth control is a sin and must be outlawed. A backer of the Roman Catholic presidential candidate says that if women want to avoid pregnancy we should put an aspirin between our knees? Catholic politicians are urging that the right to contraception should be left up to states? Nearly 50 years after the Supreme Court upheld contraception as a privacy right, we're going to have to defend this basic freedom all over again?

You're better than your church. So why? Why continue to attend Mass? Tithe? Why dutifully sacrifice to send your children to parochial schools so they can be brainwashed into the next generation of myrmidons (and, potentially, become the next Church victims)? For that matter, why have you put up with an institution that won't put up with women priests, that excludes half of humanity?

No self-respecting feminist, civil libertarian or progressive should cling to the Catholic faith. As a Cafeteria Catholic, you chuck out the stale doctrine and moldy decrees of your religion, but keep patronizing the establishment that menaces public health by serving rotten offerings. Your continuing Catholic membership, as a "liberal," casts a veneer of respectability upon an irrational sect determined to blow out the Enlightenment and threaten liberty for women worldwide. You are an enabler. And it's got to stop.

Read on.

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Permalink Reply by Davy on March 16, 2012 at 1:19pm

I read on and what an interesting read it was. 

I see the up hill battle for those that believe in the separation of the church and State have ahead of them.

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on March 16, 2012 at 2:02pm

Yeah, I loved that letter myself. Didn't mince any words, did it?

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Permalink Reply by Davy on March 16, 2012 at 2:05pm

No! It did not mince words.

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Permalink Reply by Michel on March 16, 2012 at 2:12pm

Think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of the Church's antiquated doctrine that birth control is a sin and must be outlawed.

Eloquent!

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Permalink Reply by Marianne on March 16, 2012 at 12:39pm

I didn't realize it was the "Anne Rice" that wrote all those best sellers ( would never haved dreamed she was a christian, into woo woo, yes).

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