Friday, April 22, 2005
And now for Fonda's former better half
First of all, 60 Minutes this Sunday will feature a profile of the life of Pope John Paul II. Check your local listings.
And now for Ted Turner, who in the following quotes sounds like nothing so much as a man on a serious drunken jag. I knew that the gulf was widening between those striving for good on this planet, and those who perhaps aren't so interested in that outcome ;) so I guess Turner shouldn't really shock me...The entire article can be read at LifeSiteNews.com.
NEW YORK, April 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ted Turner, one of the world's richest men and most overtly anti-Catholic promoters of eugenic population control, has been honored with a prestigious award by the United Nations on the day following the papal election. The 2005 Alan Cranston Peace Award was presented on behalf of the Global Security Institute (GSI) by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Turner has a long history of making anti-Catholic and anti-papal insults. On February 16, 1999 Ted Turner made anti-Catholic and anti-Polish remarks before the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in Washington, D.C. that were obviously meant as an insult to the late Pope John Paul II. He ridiculed the Ten Commandments saying, "they're a little out of date." He said, "If you're only going to have 10 rules, I don't know if prohibiting adultery should be one of them." He then directly mocked the Pope when asked to comment what he would say if he met the Pope. Turner lifted his leg and said, "Ever seen a Polish mine detector?" In a reference to John Paul's defence of traditional morality, he said the Pope should "get with it." Welcome to the 20th century."
And now for Ted Turner, who in the following quotes sounds like nothing so much as a man on a serious drunken jag. I knew that the gulf was widening between those striving for good on this planet, and those who perhaps aren't so interested in that outcome ;) so I guess Turner shouldn't really shock me...The entire article can be read at LifeSiteNews.com.
NEW YORK, April 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ted Turner, one of the world's richest men and most overtly anti-Catholic promoters of eugenic population control, has been honored with a prestigious award by the United Nations on the day following the papal election. The 2005 Alan Cranston Peace Award was presented on behalf of the Global Security Institute (GSI) by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Turner has a long history of making anti-Catholic and anti-papal insults. On February 16, 1999 Ted Turner made anti-Catholic and anti-Polish remarks before the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in Washington, D.C. that were obviously meant as an insult to the late Pope John Paul II. He ridiculed the Ten Commandments saying, "they're a little out of date." He said, "If you're only going to have 10 rules, I don't know if prohibiting adultery should be one of them." He then directly mocked the Pope when asked to comment what he would say if he met the Pope. Turner lifted his leg and said, "Ever seen a Polish mine detector?" In a reference to John Paul's defence of traditional morality, he said the Pope should "get with it." Welcome to the 20th century."
