Right wing religious nutballs are cut from the same cloth whether Catholic or Baptist, Islamist or Animist. Their brains refuse to admit to knowledge having moved forward – offering a better life for human beings than some rote leftover from the 11th Century or the dawn of the discovery of fire.
Responding to simmering controversy among Catholic bloggers about her new birth control program, Melinda Gates — a practicing Catholic — said she will not shrink from her role as an advocate for poor women…
While most Catholics, in the United States, at least, according to polls, seem to agree with Gates that contraception for women is not controversial, some Catholic bloggers are taking issue with the plan.
“I think we made birth control and contraceptives way too political in the United States,” said Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “I think if people understood that 200 million women want this around the world they would start to say, ‘OK that makes sense…”
“Africa’s the one place really in the world, for the most part, that contraceptives haven’t been available and it’s really been a crime,” said Gates. “If you see what’s happened in other countries that have had contraceptives, they use them first of all and the birth rates go down. … The question is could it have come down even more quickly..?”
The whole world is beginning to ignore the mewling of soothsayers left over from dead centuries of ignorance and obedience. I credit Melinda Gates for jettisoning the most useless bits of her religion. It’s time for the corporate princes to scramble to keep up with a rank-and-file that’s slowly acquiring knowledge – and independence.
