Re: Despicable priest on Buffett

Considering what a fine upstanding citizen the RC church has been through
out the ages(said with obvious sarcasm) this priest should shut his trap.
Buffet's views have been known for a very long time. Buffet should be
commended for putting his money where his mouth is. I love how the church
just automatically slams someone for doing something they don't agree with.
Hell, Buffet isn't even a Catholic.




"the q is silent" <james.c.wagner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1151660585.801546.235300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This reprehensible scum priest claims, "The merger of Gates and Buffett
may spell doom for the families of the developing world." Also that
Buffett "will be known as the Dr. Mengele of philanthropy unless he
repents."

Given the sheer hellishness of the conditions that exist in so many
third world countries as a direct result of the Catholic Church's
policies regarding contraception and abortion, you have to marvel at
the sheer gall of people who make these types of claims. What kind of
delusional evil *** do you have to be to compare a man who just
announced that he's giving away tens of billions of dollars to global
philanthropies, to the most notorious Nazi torturer?

-Jyqm

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/29/billionaires.abortion.ap/index.html

Priest: Buffett is 'Dr. Mengele of philanthropists'
Alliance with Gates foundation irks anti-abortion activists

Thursday, June 29, 2006; Posted: 5:38 p.m. EDT (21:38 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Warren Buffett's new philanthropic alliance with
fellow billionaire Bill Gates won widespread praise this week, but
anti-abortion activists did not join in, instead assailing the two
donors for their longtime support of Planned Parenthood and
international birth-control programs.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to which Buffett has pledged the
bulk of his $44-billion fortune, devotes the vast majority of its
funding to combating disease and poverty in developing countries. Less
than 1 percent has gone to Planned Parenthood over the years. And the
Gates Foundation does not permit its gifts to Planned Parenthood to be
used for abortion services.

"The merger of Gates and Buffett may spell doom for the families of the
developing world," said the Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, a Roman Catholic
priest who is president of Human Life International.

Referring to Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi death camp doctor,
Euteneuer said Buffett "will be known as the Dr. Mengele of
philanthropy unless he repents."

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America issued statements praising
Buffett and Gates for their generosity. Gloria Feldt, a former Planned
Parenthood president, said she was appalled by the harsh attacks on
them.

"What an outrage that these people have the gall to cast aspersions on
other citizens for standing up for what they believe," Feldt said
Thursday. "They have no right whatsoever to criticize people who put
their money where their mouths are."

The foundation founded by Buffett, and now named after his late wife,
Susan, came under fire from some anti-abortion groups in the 1990s
after it gave $2 million to fund clinical trials of mifepristone, more
commonly known as the RU-486 abortion pill. The foundation also has
supported various abortion-rights and family-planning groups, and Susan
Buffett was eulogized after her death in 2004 as a champion of women's
reproductive health.

Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council,
wrote a commentary this week holding the Buffetts partially responsible
for the approval of RU-486 in 2000.

"Since then, approximately 500,000 American babies have been killed
with RU-486," Perkins wrote. "Buffett's billions have the potential to
do damage like this on a global scale."

Staff at the Susan T. Buffett Foundation office in Omaha, Nebraska,
said its executive director, Allen Greenberg, would have no comment on
the criticisms.

The Gates Foundation also is a patron of reproductive-health programs,
funding research on new contraceptive technologies and initiatives to
improve access to birth control.

Planned Parenthood, which is the leading provider of abortions in the
United States, has received $34 million from the Gates Foundation over
the years -- out of a total of $10.5 billion in grants worldwide,
according to foundation spokeswoman Jacquelline Fuller. She said the
foundation does not fund abortion services, earmarking the grants for
other Planned Parenthood programs.

Joseph D'Agostino, a spokesman for the anti-abortion Population
Research Institute, said the foundation position "is simply dishonest."

"Abortion services are the primary mission of Planned Parenthood," he
said. "If you fund one side of an organization, that frees them up to
transfer funds to the other things they do."

Feldt confirmed that the Gates Foundation stipulated that its gifts to
Planned Parenthood not be used for abortion services. But that policy
has not spared Bill Gates' Microsoft Corp. from anti-abortion protests
over the years.

At the 2003 annual shareholders meeting, anti-abortion activists cited
Microsoft's support for Planned Parenthood during an unsuccessful
attempt to stop the company from directly contributing to charities.

Beyond the issue of abortion, some critics oppose the Buffett and Gates
foundations' support for global family-planning and population control
programs.

"Some of the wealthiest men in the world descend like avenging angels
on the populations of the developing world," wrote Population Research
Institute president Steven Mosher, a frequent critic of Gates and
Buffett. "They seek to decimate their numbers, to foist upon vulnerable
people abortion, sterilization and contraception."

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