"I abducted a girl at a Western education school and you are disturbed. I said Western education should end. Western education should end. Girls, you should go and get married," he said.
"I will marry off a woman at the age of 12. I will marry off a girl at the age of nine," said the shadowy militant leader, speaking in the local Hausa language and Arabic, as well as English.
Philomena was one of thousands of Irish women sent to convents in the 1950s and 60s, taken away from their homes and families because the Catholic church said single mothers were moral degenerates who could not be allowed to keep their children.
Such was the power of the church, and of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, that the state bowed before its demands, ceding responsibility for the mothers and babies to the nuns. For them it was not only a matter of sin and morality, but one of pounds, shillings and pence. At the time young Anthony Lee was born, I discovered that the Irish government was paying the Catholic church a pound a week for every woman in its care, and two shillings and sixpence for every baby. And that was not all.
After giving birth, the girls were allowed to leave the convent only if they or their family could pay the nuns £100. It was a substantial sum, and those who couldn't afford it – the vast majority – were kept in the convent for three years, working in kitchens, greenhouses and laundries or making rosary beads and religious artefacts, while the church kept the profits from their labour.
Even crueller than the work was the fact that mothers had to care for their children, developing maternal ties and affection that were to be torn asunder at the end of their three-year sentence. Like all the other girls, Philomena Lee was made to sign a renunciation document agreeing to give up her three-year-old son and swearing on oath: "I relinquish full claim for ever to my child and surrender him to Sister Barbara, Superioress of Sean Ross Abbey. The purpose is to enable Sister Barbara to make my child available for adoption to any person she considers fit and proper, inside or outside the state. I further undertake never to attempt to see, interfere with or make any claim to the said child at any future time."
the message is clear and relentless: women should be subservient to men as God intended.
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But seriously...eep. We have no idea how Javi became 'available' to adopt. He does have a back story...but it's what the nuns told us.
The bottom line should be protection of the child, butlike Bob said, protection according to what standard? What works for me may be a totally alien concept to another culture.
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Catholic Charities is all about the money. I recall them being many thousands more than a commercial agency when we did it. This Commonwealth has since put them out of business, since they can't legally bar adoptions by same- sex couples, they stopped entirely. Quite frankly, nobody even noticed.
Newsweb Radio streamlines WCPT talk simulcast
May 5, 2014 at 8:00 pm by Robert Feder
Newsweb Radio plans to drop its progressive talk simulcast from two of its FM signals while continuing the format on WCPT AM 820 and WCPY FM 92.5.
Starting June 2, WCPT FM 92.7 and WCPQ FM 99.9 will switch to Polski.FM, a time-brokered format of Polish-language news, talk and music, airing from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Charley Gross, president of Newsweb Radio, said the move will allow the company to focus progressive talk on its 820 AM flagship, 92.5 FM (which covers mainly the western suburbs and northwest Illinois) and its webstream.
“The 92.5 FM coverage complements the nighttime 820 AM signal as it fills in areas where the nighttime 820 AM is not as strong,†Gross told staffers in an email Monday. “We intend to change the 92.5 FM call letters to WCPT FM so we will continue to go by WCPT AM and FM. ChicagosProgressiveTalk.com continues to grow in Chicago and across the country making this a logical step forward for us.â€
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Looks like good news for what is now being called *Establishment* Repubs. The TeaBaggers were rebuked in three states yesterday.
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Looks like good news for what is now being called *Establishment* Repubs. The TeaBaggers were rebuked in three states yesterday.
They are still right-wing douche-tards
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I love these. =))
I present to you the (other) Carter family portraits….
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I love these. =))
I present to you the (other) Carter family portraits….
so am I the only one on the planet that really can't stand Beyonce?
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I love these. =))
I present to you the (other) Carter family portraits….
so am I the only one on the planet that really can't stand Beyonce?
I don't hate her. I like what she stands for, to be honest. A few of her songs are fun and catchy , but I would;t put myself in fandom for her.
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I don't hate her either but I find her antics tiresome. Don't think I've like anything she's done since she backstabbed her former group. And she can't act. Just beyond over her and her hubby.
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I love these. =))
I present to you the (other) Carter family portraits….
so am I the only one on the planet that really can't stand Beyonce?
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I don't hate her either but I find her antics tiresome. Don't think I've like anything she's done since she backstabbed her former group. And she can't act. Just beyond over her and her hubby.
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I don't hate her either but I find her antics tiresome. Don't think I've like anything she's done since she backstabbed her former group. And she can't act. Just beyond over her and her hubby.
oh yeah, I total get the article - Godfather - meh, Springsteen - meh, Amy Poelher - meh. Meryl and Jennifer Lawerence - I adore. The rest I have no clue who they are.
I'll just sit over in the corner with my Supernatural fandom and adoration of Misha Collins
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I don't hate her either but I find her antics tiresome. Don't think I've like anything she's done since she backstabbed her former group. And she can't act. Just beyond over her and her hubby.
oh yeah, I total get the article - Godfather - meh, Springsteen - meh, Amy Poelher - meh. Meryl and Jennifer Lawerence - I adore. The rest I have no clue who they are.
I'll just sit over in the corner with my Supernatural fandom and adoration of Misha Collins
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I don't hate her either but I find her antics tiresome. Don't think I've like anything she's done since she backstabbed her former group. And she can't act. Just beyond over her and her hubby.
oh yeah, I total get the article - Godfather - meh, Springsteen - meh, Amy Poelher - meh. Meryl and Jennifer Lawerence - I adore. The rest I have no clue who they are.
I'll just sit over in the corner with my Supernatural fandom and adoration of Misha Collins
No one puts Mala in a corner, except….
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I don't hate her either but I find her antics tiresome. Don't think I've like anything she's done since she backstabbed her former group. And she can't act. Just beyond over her and her hubby.
oh yeah, I total get the article - Godfather - meh, Springsteen - meh, Amy Poelher - meh. Meryl and Jennifer Lawerence - I adore. The rest I have no clue who they are.
I'll just sit over in the corner with my Supernatural fandom and adoration of Misha Collins
Nice!
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LEst we all think that asshholes are only in red states and red areas of the state… I present to you Dutchess county NY's Comptroller, who clear puts the TROLL in comptroller.