“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.” PeopleReligionChurchFeminismPleaseCatholicTablesFingersDiscouragedCatholic ChurchForksObsceneUtensils Author:Robin Morgan
“The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion” ChurchBirthCatholicAbortionCarrieImmenseCatholic ChurchBirth ControlRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Book:Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement Source: Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement
“Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.” UseBodyReligionHateEvilFearChurchMillionsBirthCatholicMalesMythBrandsOrganizedAbortionCarrieWealthyImmenseMisogynyHierarchyCatholic ChurchBirth ControlSkillfulOrganized ReligionObscenityRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Robin Morgan
