Condom key chains in U.S. spark religious furore

[deadparrot]

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Connecticut abortion rights group has angered some conservative Christian groups by selling condom key chains that include an image of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with God handing Adam a condom.

"It's an example of depraved morals and contempt for the sensibility of Catholics everywhere," said C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.

The $3 (1.7 pound) key chains sold by Planned Parenthood of Connecticut on its Web site come in 28 designs including an image of a U.S. flag with the stars replaced with the words "Wear with Pride" and a Statue of Liberty holding a condom instead of a torch.

Another reads" "Condoms are cheaper than diapers" over a cartoon of a screaming baby.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060113/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_religion_condoms

[mike_c]

1. wrap that rascal....

eom

[Ouabache]

12. no glove no love

eom

[lvx35]

2. hehe. I like the statue of liberty one....

Like the statue of liberty giving the middle finger I saw, or the topless statue of liberty. Something about celebrating liberty of speech around that symbol just makes me happy.

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3. Oh NO! Religious furor. Whatever shall we do?

I would say fuck 'em, but that woudln't be nice.

Apologies to anyone offended by my choice of words, coudn't help it.

[FlemingsGhost]

4. LOL ... indignant Catholics are so cute!

"It's an example of depraved morals and contempt for the sensibility of Catholics everywhere," said C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.


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Tell me, C.J., what is protection of pedophile priests, by the Catholic Church, an example of?

[fishwax]

28. lol

indignant Catholics are so cute!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

It's funny because it's true!

:rofl::rofl:

So True!

:rofl:

[IndianaGreen]

5. Adam is naked in that painting by Michelangelo

If he were alive today, he would have painted the Flying Spaghetti Monster as GAWD.

[madeline_con]

7. Then some self-appointed fool would come along and

insist pants be painted on Adam. :eyes:

[DBoon]

26. Some fool would insist on painting pants on the FSM

nt

[happyslug]

29. No he would NOT

For the Catholic Church was PAYING FOR THE PICTURE. An old rule of art, he who pays get what they want.

[madeline_con]

6. Selling condom keychains makes these people angry?

They need to get some sort of life or find a hobby. :crazy:

EDIT typos suck...

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9. Because it confirms the existence of genitalia.

You know, the evil parts of the human body.

[madeline_con]

14. Those sinful areas no one talks about. n/t

[O.M.B.inOhio]

20. Yeah, who made genitalia anyway?

Did the Serpent graft himself to Adam? Then why aren't the Christians picketing outside Monsanto and other corps that merge different species (e.g. jellyfish genes in potatoes)? And why couldn't Satan have taken the form of a bigger snake?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. Exactly! A Hobby!

Don't these mush-for-brains have any other interests?

Take a vacation, fools! Jebus wants you to relax . . .

[madeline_con]

15. Gawd! They'll be heading for Orlando and the

Holy Land theme park thing. :(

[CrazyOrangeCat]

18. Doh!

[HuffleClaw]

8. bwhaahhahahahhahaaaaa

after the sort of CRAP they do with regularity, they have the gall to whine about this?

[silverweb]

11. OMG...

THIS is what those stupid idiots are offended by...



:rofl:

Don't they ever experience a moment of outrage overload? :crazy:

[madeline_con]

17. But, Adam's penis isn't even showing! eom

[silverweb]

19. Which makes them even more ridiculous!

I just wish they would mind their own damned business, tend to their own black souls, and leave everyone else alone.

Unfortunately, NAO, in the post below, has it absolutely right.

[NAO]

13. Give any church the power, they would punish heresy with whip and chain...

To really understand the mentality behind "religious furor", read Robert Ingersoll's Heretics and Heresies

excerpt from Heretics and Heresies"
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/heretics_and_hericies.html

"Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire? Why should a Christian be better than his God? It is impossible for the imagination to conceive of a greater atrocity than has been perpetrated by the church. Every nerve in the human body capable of pain has been sought out and touched."

"Let it be remembered that all churches have persecuted heretics to the fullest extent of their power. Toleration has increased only when and where the power of the church has diminished. From Augustine until now the spirit of the Christians has remained the same. There has been the same intolerance, the same undying hatred of all who think for themselves, and the same determination to crush out of the human brain all knowledge inconsistent with an ignorant creed..."

"In those days the cross and rack were inseparable companions. Across the open Bible lay the sword and fagot. Not content with burning such heretics as were alive, they even tried the dead, in order that the church might rob their wives and children. The property of all heretics was confiscated, and on this account they charged the dead with being heretical -- indicted, as it were, their dust -- to the end that the church might clutch the bread of orphans. Learned divines discussed the propriety of tearing out the tongues of heretics before they were burned, and the general opinion was, that this ought to be done so that the heretics should not be able, by uttering blasphemies, to shock the Christians who were burning them. With a mixture of ferocity and Christianity, the priests insisted that heretics ought to be burned at a slow fire, giving as a reason that more time was given them for repentance..."

"According to the theologians, God, the Father of us all, wrote a letter to his children. The children have always differed somewhat as to the meaning of this letter. In consequence of these honest differences, these brothers began to cut out each other's hearts. In every land, where this letter from God has been read, the children to whom and for whom it was written have been filled with hatred and malice. They have imprisoned and murdered each other, and the wives and children of each other. In the name of God every possible crime has been committed, every conceivable outrage has been perpetrated. Brave men, tender and loving women, beautiful girls, and prattling babes have been exterminated in the name of Jesus Christ. For more than fifty generations the church has carried the black flag. Her vengeance has been measured only by her power. During all these years of infamy no heretic has ever been forgiven. With the heart of a fiend she has hated; with the clutch of avarice she has grasped; with the jaws of a dragon she has devoured; pitiless as famine, merciless as fire, with the conscience of a serpent: such is the history of the Church of God."

[silverweb]

22. Thank you for that sobering reminder.

We laugh at this instance and so many others, but unrestrained religious domination is a very serious matter. Its fearsome, voracious enforcers must be hated and permanently defanged.

[4morewars]

32. "Jesus wept" n/t

[Locut0s]

16. 1.7 Lbs? That's a heavy hey chain! Better come with some condoms at...

that weight.

[Occulus]

21. AND, in a RELATED story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=136864&mesg_id=136864

:rofl:

[Jade Fox]

23. 'Depraved morals'? These folks need to get a grip....

All the horrors going on in the world, and they get their vestments in a knot over this?

[Skittles]

24. these sanctimonious assholes make me sick

how about getting upset over war?

[NI4NI]

25. Whoopi Goldberg carried condoms

inside her earrings.

[jseankil]

27. These things are brilliant! I had never seen them before.

Great free advirtising!!

[Guy Fawkes]

30. Some of these are pretty good... (direct link)

http://www.ppct.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=ppct&Category_Code=KEYC

[Deja Q]

31. And catholics have nothing but contempt for humans!

x(

[baldguy]

33. No worse than when the Jesus Death Cult co-ops the US flag.

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. LOL This bar in The MO Ozarks sells souvenirs

They have a keychain that is labeled as the "Official Big Dick's Wetsuit'. It is a see through container with a condom in it.