SEE UPDATE BELOWCatholic League president Bill Donohue explains why the Freedom from Religion Foundation is opposed to the decision by the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Mother Teresa stamp later this year:
Annie Laurie Gaylor is co-president, with her husband Dan Barker, of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and she is leading the atheist crusade against the Mother Teresa stamp. She reasons that the Post Office should not honor a religious figure. The Post Office replies that Mother Teresa was selected because of her humanitarian work.
When asked about a previous stamp honoring Malcolm X, a leader of the Nation of Islam, Gaylor said, “Malcolm X was not primarily known for being a religious figure.” She is correct. But she sounds like a white racist when she dresses down Rev. Martin Luther King: she said he “just happened to be a minister.” Really? We’d like to hear her explain that to African Americans at a Sunday service. Perhaps she can get the NAACP to recast King as a secular orator, and not as a black clergyman, during Black History Month (which starts on Monday).
What is really driving Gaylor’s hatred of Mother Teresa, besides her virulent anti-Catholicism, is the saintly nun’s opposition to abortion. She accuses the Albanian nun of making an “anti-abortion rant” during her Nobel Prize acceptance speech. As a matter of fact, the “rant” amounted to her saying that “abortion was the greatest destroyer of peace in the world.”
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UPDATE: Pro-Life Catholic Group Launches Campaign to Support Stamp for Mother Teresa
A Catholic group has launched a new campaign to show support for the U.S. Postal Service's decision to honor pro-life luminary Mother Teresa with a special postage stamp. The stamp has come under fire from atheist groups who say the government shouldn't be honoring a pro-life religious figure.
The USPS Mother Teresa stamp is one of 23 new issues the United States Postal Service recently unveiled for 2010.
Honoring the pro-life champion Mother Teresa on a postage stamp shouldn't be a big controversy given her highly-respected work for the poor. But anti-religious groups are working overtime to try to get the Post Office to reverse its decision.
Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVoteAction, emailed LifeNews.com about the new petition campaign his group is sponsoring to show support for the stamp.
2 comments:
Sounds like Gaylor has not properly educated herself on matters, to be polite.
I'm sorry, but I have not checked on this recently, so don't know what's going on, but what has their tack been in the past for religious holidays like Christmas where we have three or four different religious stamps? Is it possible to shut down the U.S. mails because of their stamps? How is the ACLU involved in this, or is it?
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