Vatican Defends Banning Singer Who Supports Condoms
Vatican defends banning singer who supports condoms
By Philip Pullella
Fri Dec 2,10:08 AM ET
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The
Vaticanon Friday defended its decision to exclude Brazilian singer
Daniela Mercury from its Christmas concert, saying she had threatened to promote the use of condoms to fight
AIDS during the show.
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"The Vatican decided to exclude Daniela Mercury from the cast not because of her convictions about contraceptives even if they are not in agreement those of the Catholic Church," said Father Giuseppe Bellucci, a priest who organized the show.
"She was excluded because she had announced that at the concert she would openly promote the use of condoms to fight the plague of AIDS," he told a news conference presenting the benefit concert, to be held on Saturday night.
Mercury, who is an ambassador for
UNICEFand the U.N. anti-AIDS program, had been invited to sing several songs as part of an international cast that includes South African singer Miriam Makeba and Ireland's Dolores O'Riordan.
"The convictions of a person are one thing but making statements like these are another," Bellucci said.
"We have to remember that the performers, the promoters and everyone else at these things are guests of Vatican City and we have to abide by the rules of the hosts," he said.
The concert is a traditional fund-raiser for charities. It is not attended by the Pope but is attended by dozens of cardinals and other top Vatican officials.
It is then broadcast on Italian television on Christmas Eve.
Mercury said in a statement last week that she regretted the decision but had the right to disagree with the Catholic Church's opposition to using contraceptives as a way of stopping the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
At the 2003 concert U.S. Hip Hop singer Lauryn Hill shocked Catholic officials by telling them to "repent" and alluding to sexual abuse of children by U.S. priests. Her comments were cut from the recording and not broadcast on Christmas Eve.
The Church opposes the use of condoms except in the rarest of circumstances because they are a form of contraception.
It says that fidelity within heterosexual marriage, chastity and abstinence are the best ways to stop the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
The Church says promoting condoms to fight the spread of AIDS fosters what it sees as immoral and hedonistic lifestyles and behavior that will only contribute to its spread.
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Well, a big FUCK YOU to the catholic church, as per usual. Or as I like to call them, part of the "NO FUN" brigade. Excuse me, Cardinal Moron, but do you really think in this day and age that people are going to abstain from sex? This isn't the dark ages anymore! Whether you like it or not, people are going to have sex not solely for the purpose of punching out kids, so tell me, WHAT exactly, is the logic of not educating on the use of contraception? If you hadn't noticed, people CHOOSE whether they wish to have kids these days. It's not a matter of fucking your significant other and then going "Whoops, I'm pregnant!". You contradict yourselves, anyway. You say that sex is sinful on one hand, but then applaud the concept of having children on the other. Make your narrow little minds up! OOPS! You have to have sex to have kids, or did that slip your minds, too? What, screaming "immaculate conception" again? Or are you too busy being restrictive by saying that not only should you not have sex before marriage, you can't use condoms because they are against "God's plan"?
HELLO?! Is there anybody in there?? GOD IS PROBABLY LAUGHING AT YOUR STUPID ASSES! In fact, God probably wants you to stop telling the same story you've been telling for the last however many hundred years, modernise is, and change your damn tune, already! Do you think God is happy that there are so many people in the world dying of HIV/AIDS, regardless of how they contracted the disease? Don't you think he would want his "representatives" on Earth to at least give BETTER advice on how to live their lives in this day and age? Hey, I've got news for you. God supposedly loves ALL his children... regardless of whether they are gay, straight, transsexual, bisexual, married, divorced, having sex, or not having sex. Who are you as his "representatives" to tell HIS children what they can and can't do? What would happen, if you turned to God now and asked him for advice? Y'know what, I bet he would shrug his shoulders and go "Hey buddy, don't look at me. You created this chaos, you fix it." I hope God turns a blind eye on you and your mockery of a religion when the time comes. OR better yet, I hope he gives you all the finger and tells you to FUCK OFF!
By Philip Pullella
Fri Dec 2,10:08 AM ET
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The
Vaticanon Friday defended its decision to exclude Brazilian singer
Daniela Mercury from its Christmas concert, saying she had threatened to promote the use of condoms to fight
AIDS during the show.
ADVERTISEMENT
"The Vatican decided to exclude Daniela Mercury from the cast not because of her convictions about contraceptives even if they are not in agreement those of the Catholic Church," said Father Giuseppe Bellucci, a priest who organized the show.
"She was excluded because she had announced that at the concert she would openly promote the use of condoms to fight the plague of AIDS," he told a news conference presenting the benefit concert, to be held on Saturday night.
Mercury, who is an ambassador for
UNICEFand the U.N. anti-AIDS program, had been invited to sing several songs as part of an international cast that includes South African singer Miriam Makeba and Ireland's Dolores O'Riordan.
"The convictions of a person are one thing but making statements like these are another," Bellucci said.
"We have to remember that the performers, the promoters and everyone else at these things are guests of Vatican City and we have to abide by the rules of the hosts," he said.
The concert is a traditional fund-raiser for charities. It is not attended by the Pope but is attended by dozens of cardinals and other top Vatican officials.
It is then broadcast on Italian television on Christmas Eve.
Mercury said in a statement last week that she regretted the decision but had the right to disagree with the Catholic Church's opposition to using contraceptives as a way of stopping the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
At the 2003 concert U.S. Hip Hop singer Lauryn Hill shocked Catholic officials by telling them to "repent" and alluding to sexual abuse of children by U.S. priests. Her comments were cut from the recording and not broadcast on Christmas Eve.
The Church opposes the use of condoms except in the rarest of circumstances because they are a form of contraception.
It says that fidelity within heterosexual marriage, chastity and abstinence are the best ways to stop the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
The Church says promoting condoms to fight the spread of AIDS fosters what it sees as immoral and hedonistic lifestyles and behavior that will only contribute to its spread.
Article Here
==
Well, a big FUCK YOU to the catholic church, as per usual. Or as I like to call them, part of the "NO FUN" brigade. Excuse me, Cardinal Moron, but do you really think in this day and age that people are going to abstain from sex? This isn't the dark ages anymore! Whether you like it or not, people are going to have sex not solely for the purpose of punching out kids, so tell me, WHAT exactly, is the logic of not educating on the use of contraception? If you hadn't noticed, people CHOOSE whether they wish to have kids these days. It's not a matter of fucking your significant other and then going "Whoops, I'm pregnant!". You contradict yourselves, anyway. You say that sex is sinful on one hand, but then applaud the concept of having children on the other. Make your narrow little minds up! OOPS! You have to have sex to have kids, or did that slip your minds, too? What, screaming "immaculate conception" again? Or are you too busy being restrictive by saying that not only should you not have sex before marriage, you can't use condoms because they are against "God's plan"?
HELLO?! Is there anybody in there?? GOD IS PROBABLY LAUGHING AT YOUR STUPID ASSES! In fact, God probably wants you to stop telling the same story you've been telling for the last however many hundred years, modernise is, and change your damn tune, already! Do you think God is happy that there are so many people in the world dying of HIV/AIDS, regardless of how they contracted the disease? Don't you think he would want his "representatives" on Earth to at least give BETTER advice on how to live their lives in this day and age? Hey, I've got news for you. God supposedly loves ALL his children... regardless of whether they are gay, straight, transsexual, bisexual, married, divorced, having sex, or not having sex. Who are you as his "representatives" to tell HIS children what they can and can't do? What would happen, if you turned to God now and asked him for advice? Y'know what, I bet he would shrug his shoulders and go "Hey buddy, don't look at me. You created this chaos, you fix it." I hope God turns a blind eye on you and your mockery of a religion when the time comes. OR better yet, I hope he gives you all the finger and tells you to FUCK OFF!
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