Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
A former sex-education instructor is challenging Planned Parenthood for “sexualizing children”, cutting parents “out of the picture”, and dehumanizing the unborn. She knows, she said, because she received training from the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Monica Cline, who was taught and trained by Planned Parenthood, now serves as a pro-life advocate and founder of It Takes a Family. She applauded a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling that says the state can block Planned Parenthood’s sex education programs, funded by federal grants, from public schools. She criticized Planned Parenthood’s work both in Iowa and across the country.
Cline recognized the “significant” ruling in Iowa during EWTN Pro-Life Weekly July 8.
“These programs are actually created to teach children about sexuality in order for them to become sexually active,” she said. Among other concerns, she added, they didn’t include abstinence “at all.”
“These programs are about sexualizing children and leading them to abortion,” she cautioned. Today, she warned, “comprehensive sexuality education is all about grooming children” and is wielded as a “marketing tool to lead to abortion.”
Cline was mentored by Planned Parenthood’s director of sex education in Austin. One of the first things that she learned was how to treat children, as 10 years old.
“You need to see them and realize that they are sexually active, and if they haven’t, they will be,” her mentor told her. “It’s our job as sex educators to teach them about all forms of sexuality to ensure that they’re reducing their risk.”
“Their philosophy and their belief about our children is highly sexualized,” Cline stressed. “They believe that abstinence is laughable. They see parents as a barrier to service.”
While Cline agreed that abortion is the breakdown of the family, she emphasized that “it all begins with sex education.”
“It’s about keeping parents out of the picture and ensuring that those children not only dehumanize themselves through the act of sex outside of marriage but then to dehumanize the preborn child through abortion,” she said
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Believers gather at the Namugongo Shrine in Uganda for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on June 3, 2024, where the country’s president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, urged them to be at the forefront of fostering peace in the East African region. Museveni lauded Christians and other believers in the country for “embracing unity” and fostering religious tolerance. / Credit: ACI Africa
Kampala, Uganda, Jun 4, 2024 / 12:25 pm (CNA).
Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni urged believers gathered at the Namugongo Shrine in Kampala, Uganda, for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on Monday to be at the forefront of fostering peace in the East African region.
Speaking after the Eucharistic celebration for the event celebrated annually on June 3, Museveni lauded Christians and other believers in the country who have embraced unity and rallied under their religious leaders to foster unity and religious tolerance.
“A Christian must be an example to other people. A Christian must lead by example in fighting for peace,” the Ugandan president said during the event, which was hosted by the Diocese of Nebbi.
Museveni urged Christians to give reconciliation and dialogue a chance, saying: “Our countries have a challenge of peace, and a lack of peace many times is caused by unresolved issues.”
Priests, religious, and laypeople from across Africa gather at the Namugongo Shrine in Uganda for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on June 3, 2024, where Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni urged them to be at the forefront of fostering peace in the East African region. Museveni lauded Christians and other believers in the country for “embracing unity” and fostering religious tolerance. Credit: ACI Africa
He lamented that rather than fostering peace and unity, many in the region, including some Christians, resort to guns and violence to solve issues.
“Therefore, I besiege all believers to do all that is necessary to bring peace in our East African countries,” Museveni said. “It is only after fostering peace in our region that we should now embark on eradicating poverty.”
In his speech, the president also acknowledged with appreciation the collaboration of religious leaders and the government of the East African country in curbing religious and tribal divisions.
“I want to thank the believers in Uganda and their religious leaders… this is because, before the 1960s and even after, Ugandans were divided according to tribes and religion,” he said. “This was part of the chaos that engulfed Uganda.”
Museveni chastised those who have sowed division, decrying what he described as “hypocrisy among religious leaders in the country,” saying: “You who claim to be religious are more unreligious than those who are irreligious, and you were dividing our people.”
But he also added: “I want to thank Ugandans very much because they embraced the call for unity that we are still enjoying up to now.”
Believers gather at the Namugongo Shrine for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on June 3, 2024, where the country’s president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, urged them to be at the forefront of fostering peace in the East African region. Museveni lauded Christians and other believers in the country for “embracing unity” and fostering religious tolerance. Credit: ACI Africa
The Ugandan president further lauded the Nebbi Diocese for organizing this year’s pilgrimage, which he described as “enriching.”
He also acknowledged the presence of Mary Nyerere, who he said always attends the pilgrimage at Namugongo to pray for the beatification and canonization of her spouse, Servant of God Julius Kambarage Nyerere, who was former prime minister and then president of what is now Tanzania.
Pope Benedict XVI declared Nyerere a servant of God on May 13, 2005.
“I want to thank Mary Nyerere for coming here every moment we have this pilgrimage to pray for the beatification of Julius Nyerere,” Museveni said. “I am a witness to the good work of Julius Nyerere.”
Museveni, who has led Uganda since 1986, urged all those gathered at the event to emulate the late Tanzanian president for his heroic virtues.
Priests, religious, and laypeople gather at the Namugongo Shrine for this year’s Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on June 3, 2024, where the country’s president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, urged them to be at the forefront of fostering peace in the East African region. Credit: ACI Africa
Ugandan Martyrs’ Day dates back to the first decade of Christian presence in the East African nation when 45 men between the ages of 14 and 50 were killed because of their faith between 1885 and 1887.
Among the 45 were 22 Catholics who were beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1964. These martyrs continue to inspire the Catholic faith in Uganda and around the world.
Escaping the Darkness of Evil Fr Spitzer’s recent topic isn’t easy when the Dark is so pervasive, as we find it. Spitzer’s Cosmic Dimension of Evil teaches us that evil spreads throughout our universe affecting everyone, through each individual who chooses sin. Admittedly, we must, there is an attraction we all know having struggled with. SF Gay Men’s Chorus’ “We’ll convert your children, we’re coming for them” speaks to that cosmic reality of evil dreadfully spawning evil. Children a prime target. A corrupted judiciary mandates it. Evangelists and Apostles spread the faith, and goodness, and the joyful beauty of marital integrity between man and woman, of men and women choosing a path of holiness communally, at times singularly alone with God all toward the strengthening and glory of the Mystical Body. Today the Body is attacked within by moral darkness that inundates Mankind everywhere. Spread by the apostles of death Planned Parenthood, of falsehood the Teachers Union the societal vanguards. We agonize perplexed at simply confirming the primary dogmatic truth of Eucharistic coherence. As good spread cosmically through grace evil now spreads breathtakingly rapidly through its loss. Good requires fortitude, evil capitulation. Men, priests and bishops are weakened by its pervasiveness, wavering and divided. What we have remaining are the sacraments, there our remaining hope for salvation, and there precisely is where the satanic war is being engaged. At this time intellectual discourse is often tiresome. Although we must engage there also. A sacramental life today is a call to the shedding of blood figuratively, by commitment, perhaps really, by saintly determination in the face of evil.
God bless Monica Cline. The individual witness of every ex-seducer or abortionist counts for a lot. We’re reminded of a former director of a Texas abortion clinic who publicly confided (in 2009) to an interviewer that her real end game was to become a millionaire…
That public confession came only after opening an unused Bible, and after an admitted thirty-five thousand abortions performed on teenage girls in her clinic. The scam—a predator is given privileged access to infiltrate schools with the message of sexual “readiness,” and a business card. In this case, promiscuous teens then were furnished with deliberately low-dose contraceptives. A second and third and fifth return visit by the same manipulated teens placed the financial goal within reach (the interviewer was Carol Everett, “Highlights” television interview, May 8, 2009).
And now we have the Abortion Industry’s entire end game, and the predisposing seamless-garment (!) of Gender Theory, all being imposed under cover of pseudo-Catholic Biden’s “pious, private” and bipolar religiosity. Pray that the USCCB—and, especially, that each of its personally responsible 260 bishops—will turn the lights on. Maybe even finally including the few outliers (out-liars?): Cupich, McElroy, Gregory, Tobin (Newark), etc.
My name is Mary Catherine Erickson.I am the daughter of an Executive Director of Planned Parenthood.I suffered from a cute eating disors due to sexual neglect of my mother..She has been very destructive in my life..and my grandmothers life..my sister’s and my daughters..my sister and daughter and I have all attempted suicide..and my mother has destroyed everything in my life..and anytime I have had a family..and she has persecuted my Christianity and taught my daughter that there is no God .and my daughter has been hospitalized in psychiatric units over seven times under my mom and step father..they have my daughter in a guardianship I am trying to remove..The devastating and damage is horrendous… My only daughter.
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Interesting.
And where does SIECUS fit into this picture?
Escaping the Darkness of Evil Fr Spitzer’s recent topic isn’t easy when the Dark is so pervasive, as we find it. Spitzer’s Cosmic Dimension of Evil teaches us that evil spreads throughout our universe affecting everyone, through each individual who chooses sin. Admittedly, we must, there is an attraction we all know having struggled with. SF Gay Men’s Chorus’ “We’ll convert your children, we’re coming for them” speaks to that cosmic reality of evil dreadfully spawning evil. Children a prime target. A corrupted judiciary mandates it. Evangelists and Apostles spread the faith, and goodness, and the joyful beauty of marital integrity between man and woman, of men and women choosing a path of holiness communally, at times singularly alone with God all toward the strengthening and glory of the Mystical Body. Today the Body is attacked within by moral darkness that inundates Mankind everywhere. Spread by the apostles of death Planned Parenthood, of falsehood the Teachers Union the societal vanguards. We agonize perplexed at simply confirming the primary dogmatic truth of Eucharistic coherence. As good spread cosmically through grace evil now spreads breathtakingly rapidly through its loss. Good requires fortitude, evil capitulation. Men, priests and bishops are weakened by its pervasiveness, wavering and divided. What we have remaining are the sacraments, there our remaining hope for salvation, and there precisely is where the satanic war is being engaged. At this time intellectual discourse is often tiresome. Although we must engage there also. A sacramental life today is a call to the shedding of blood figuratively, by commitment, perhaps really, by saintly determination in the face of evil.
God bless Monica Cline. The individual witness of every ex-seducer or abortionist counts for a lot. We’re reminded of a former director of a Texas abortion clinic who publicly confided (in 2009) to an interviewer that her real end game was to become a millionaire…
That public confession came only after opening an unused Bible, and after an admitted thirty-five thousand abortions performed on teenage girls in her clinic. The scam—a predator is given privileged access to infiltrate schools with the message of sexual “readiness,” and a business card. In this case, promiscuous teens then were furnished with deliberately low-dose contraceptives. A second and third and fifth return visit by the same manipulated teens placed the financial goal within reach (the interviewer was Carol Everett, “Highlights” television interview, May 8, 2009).
And now we have the Abortion Industry’s entire end game, and the predisposing seamless-garment (!) of Gender Theory, all being imposed under cover of pseudo-Catholic Biden’s “pious, private” and bipolar religiosity. Pray that the USCCB—and, especially, that each of its personally responsible 260 bishops—will turn the lights on. Maybe even finally including the few outliers (out-liars?): Cupich, McElroy, Gregory, Tobin (Newark), etc.
My name is Mary Catherine Erickson.I am the daughter of an Executive Director of Planned Parenthood.I suffered from a cute eating disors due to sexual neglect of my mother..She has been very destructive in my life..and my grandmothers life..my sister’s and my daughters..my sister and daughter and I have all attempted suicide..and my mother has destroyed everything in my life..and anytime I have had a family..and she has persecuted my Christianity and taught my daughter that there is no God .and my daughter has been hospitalized in psychiatric units over seven times under my mom and step father..they have my daughter in a guardianship I am trying to remove..The devastating and damage is horrendous… My only daughter.