‘Carry on breeding and f**k the consequences’ says Catholic Church

THREE babies are born each minute in the Philippines, which has one of the highest birth-rates in Asia. The population is growing at around two percent annually and is expected to hit 100 million within the next five years, according to the country’s National Statistics Office.

With 40 percent of the country’s 90 million people living on less than two dollars a day, the high birth-rate has been described by former president Fidel Ramos as a “ticking time bomb”, according to Yahoo News.

He said with inflation at a 17-year high, economic growth slowing and people starting to slip back into poverty, the need for a comprehensive family planning programme has become “a matter of national survival”.

Does overpopulation and starvation matter to the Catholic Church, which wields enormous power in the Philippines?

Does it hell!

The Church has come out fighting against a Reproductive Health Care bill, introduced by congressman Edcel Lagman, who believes the time has come for the Philippines to take family planning seriously.

Congressman Lagman

Despite what the Church is saying, Filipino people, especially the poor, want family planning. They want to have control over what methods they use and they want the ability to choose without fearing a backlash from the Church.

Lagman says he fears the influence of the Catholic Church could stymie reforms he sees as essential for economic and social progress.

We have a very conservative Church in this country and [it] still exerts a lot of influence in politics. The fact is, economically, we can not afford our current rate of population growth.

National surveys by pollsters Pulse Asia and the Social Weather Station have repeatedly shown that more than 80 percent of Filipinos want to have control over their fertility.

The Catholic Church, however, is campaigning against the bill – which must receive the support of the majority of congress and senate members before being presented to the president for her signature.

Unfortunately, President Gloria Arroyo, a devout Catholic, supports the church’s stance on birth control.

Archbishop Rosales

Some church leaders are threatening to excommunicate legislators who support it, with some saying they might refuse to preside over marriages or administer Holy Communion to anyone associated with the bill.

Commenting on the bill recently, Manila’s idiotic Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales, who recently got hot under the collar about Filipino ladyboys, said the church would fight for the “defenceless” fetus. Said the barmy old fool:

Life should be valued and its creation is a serious matter. Couples who have the discipline to practice the church-sanctioned natural family planning methods are in possession of true values of life and tend to pass it on to their children. They also tend to be good citizens.

If there is discipline in the marital bed, then there is discipline in the streets, there is discipline in schools, there is discipline in the government.

For “discipline” read blind obedience to Holy Mother Church, vile and irresponsible bitch that she is.