‘Stinging’ Nettle
THE rosaries-ovaries T-shirt worn by an Australian Greens senator was deeply offensive to Catholics, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
An understatement, Mr Howard. The Greens Senator is deeply offensive herself. So crass and yet claims the high moral ground in the debate.
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle wore the “keep your rosaries off my ovaries” T-shirt earlier this week as the Senate started its emotion charged debate over who should control the abortion drug RU486. The T-shirt was sponsored by the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA).I’m a self confessed coward in relation to the abortion debate. I say nothing…with a catholic wife, a Mother, three sisters, three daughters, what appears at times to be a hundred switched on modern nieces (all Catholic) and no religion myself to speak of I figure it’s a woman’s issue. All that of course doesn’t stop me picking on my favourite sub-species – the Greens. The woman is offensive, not just her shirt. The PM continues;
“The Greens Party can practically sneer at Catholic devotional practice and think it’s funny and to see some journalists standing around grinning as if the whole thing’s a joke,” he said. “And it’s the kind of silly undergraduate contribution to this debate which is regrettable but that’s democracy.”Whereas I’m not heavy into religion, I’m very much into people having the right to practice their beliefs and pay homage to their Gods without redicule. Nettle and her kind; the downside to democracy. UPDATE: ‘Stinging’ Nettle says she’s sorry;
AUSTRALIAN Greens senator Kerry Nettle says she is sorry if her rosaries-ovaries T-shirt offended anyone, but pledged to wear it again.Which really means she isn’t sorry; she just mouthed some words to get more media coverage and will wear it again when it suits her.
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The amusing part of this is that the slogan is not original. It was used several years ago by Irish women demonstrating against the stance of the Catholic church on birth control.
Interesting about the somewhat ironic but wholly hypocritical stand taken by Sen Nettles.
She says in the ‘The Australian’ article that ” “Religion has no place in politics, and religion has no place in a decision for a women about what drug is safe for her to use.”
Given the no religion in politics stand, I guess she would have been against the Rev Martin Luther King taking his stand and would now object to the Dali Lama speaking out against China. But the personal hypocrisy is her saying this and wearing a T-Shirt sponsored by the Young Women’s CHRISTIAN Association (YWCA). Some might argue whether such a YMCA with such T-Shirts was still truly Christian but they say on their web-site the “YWCA Australia is a women’s membership organisation nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and valuesâ€?.
Christian faith, beliefs and values? Sounds like religion to me Nettles! And sounds like they are having a place in a decision for a women about what drug is safe for her to use.
DR
I have no religion to speak of, yet I believe that the killing of any human being undergoing a normal part of its life cycle should not be done for self-indulgent or flippant reasons. In situations of rape and threats to the mother’s health, I have no problem with leaving the choice to the woman, however I believe that a woman’s “right to choose” otherwise stops after her voluntary decision to have sex. There are many good reasons why an individual may be worth killing – lust is not one of them.