Gerald Warner has drawn attention to the issue of postage stamps featuring the racist eugenicist Marie Stopes (cf. Marie Stopes is forgiven racism and eugenics because she was anti-life)Warner has the text of a letter from Marie Stopes to "Dear Herr Hitler" in which she sends the Fuhrer some poems for the youth of his country.
Gerald Warner points out that it is surprising that such a racist should be commemorated on British stamps but observes:
To the PC establishment, however, even racist peccadilloes can be ignored to honour a pioneer who helped promote the anti-life culture and relieve women of the intolerable trauma of giving birth to a child with a cleft palate. Eugenic abortion accounts for an increasing proportion of the 7 million "terminations" in Britain since 1967. Poor old Josef Mengele was not eligible for a stamp, being a dead, white male. Perhaps in 2009...
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dead, white, EUROPEAN male...
;-)
Fr. Tim,
No-one should be surprised to discover that one of the UK’s pioneers of contraception and abortion for the masses was a Nazi sympathizer and eugenicist. These phenomena are interlinked and are simply different facets of the same culture of death.
One of the truths that dare not speak its name is that the chattering classes warm to contraception and abortion because it limits the numbers of the "great unwashed" – not that the ruling elite would ever admit it, of course.
And in the USA, where a disproportionate number of aborted babies are of African ancestry, there is more to chattering class endorsement of abortion than merely the old mantra of “a woman’s right to choose.” You can read an article about this published by a US Catholic source here.
At bottom, contraception, abortion and eugenics are all inspired by the same satanic hatred for the human race and, in particular, the Incarnation. The struggle against these inter-related evils pits one directly against the devil - which is precisely why working against these things is so difficult.
There was an adulatory Open University bio-documentary about 10 years ago (although it might have been a repeat even then) which in one shot, to my astonishment but with no comment of any kind, showed a box of antique condoms bearing a slogan something like "Use 'Empire' caps for racial hygiene". No real hint, throughout the programme, of what sort of thinking lay behind such a slogan - not to mention the brand name!
Father, yours is a fascinating and a chilling comment.
I'll second Fr. Ray Blake's suggestion that we return any mail with these hideous stamps back to the sender.
'return any mail with these hideous stamps back to the sender'.
Unless the envelope contains my eagerly awaited lottery winnings - no chance, I don't buy lottery tickets!
What's wrong with stamps that simply bear an image of the current monarch? Someone is on an agenda 'trip' here for sure. Anyone know somebody high up in the post office design studios? Bet there's a back-hander from IPPF somewhere along the line - fat brown envelopes changing hands under the table at a Waterloo Station coffee bar.
We will join Fr Ray Blake and Ottaviani in returning any post bearing this stamp to sender and refuse to buy the stamp for our own post.
Whilst the state celebrates Marie Stopes the Catholic Church in this country seems to have abandoned the idea of a special day for our Lady. It seems that the feast of the Assumption is no longer a holiday of obligation to be celebrated on 15th August but this year is to be celebrated on the Sunday. According to my diary there is now only one holiday of obligation left i.e. Christmass. Was there an announcement to that effect from the Bishops? Did I miss something?
In my the parish I regularly visit in Portugal we celebrated Corpus Christi on the Thursday 11th June. I suspect that is because the Church in Portugal is stuck with a Concordat which decrees a national holiday. Still we had a wonderful procession around the village with a silver band hired from a nearby village and if anyone missed it we had a repeat performance on the Sunday to celebrate St Anthony of Lisbon (wrongly entitled "of Padua" by the ignorant).
Too ruddy idle in this country I suppose.
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