Posted on 02/03/2009 5:07:11 PM PST by MountainLoop
A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.
Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”
"In the eyes of conservative forces, these changes mean that the family is in crisis," he said. "In crisis? More than a crisis, we are in the presence of a weakening of the patriarchal structure, as a result of the disappearance of the economic base that sustains it and because of the rise of new values centered in the recognition of fundamental human rights."
"Day after day, Mexico experiences a process of this diversity and there are those who understand it as a crisis, because they only recognize one type of family," one of the speakers on the panel also told the audience.
The comments followed close on the heels of the World Meeting of Families, which was held in Mexico City in January, and which strongly reaffirmed the importance of the traditional family and its indispensible role in transmitting values to the next generation. It was opened by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who observed that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births were contributing to the rise of violence and crime in Mexico.
Leonardo Casco, a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family and a citizen of Honduras, told LifeSiteNews that he wasn't surprised that the UNFPA was denying the crisis in the family.
"They definitely have to deny that there is a crisis in the family, because they have created the crisis," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
Oh, boy.......
More proof that U.N. freeloaders do not think the same way normal people do.
Likely another bitter European faggot railing against ‘the family’ and ‘the patriarchy’, because they are so ‘judgemental’.
Only EVIL could come up with cockamamie convoluted crud like this.
They should castrate people like him before they get loose.
We have arrived in the new world - where right is wrong, and wrong is right.
Unreal. Another reason to hate them. UN = United Numbskulls.
What a pathetic excuse for a human being this “man” is. We need more chlorine in the gene pool.
I will stand up to anyone who says the U.N. Flag is good for nothing!
wow! Somebody’s daughter with meth. rotted teeth likes turnin tricks for crack is a victory????
Words fail me!!!
ping
We are living in some F##ked up times I tell you
Let’s celebrate suicide and euthanasia while we’re at it.
Likely another bitter European faggot railing against ‘the family’ and ‘the patriarchy’, because they are so ‘judgemental’.
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I think you nailed it. He’s still in a huff at ‘mater’ and ‘pater’.
It’s almost like the UN intentionally wants the world to turn to crap.
Satan thinks he rules.
Let’s not be so fast to condemn here. If we can break the patriarchy in Islam that would be a HUGE step forward.
There's no better word than evil to describe this. Perhaps madness, but evil it most definitely is.
Unbelievable. I think the UN just comes up with this crap to make its biggest contributor look bad. Banish the UN from America and stop paying their fees.
And what’s truly amazing is that these people’s opinion gets published, is listened to, and is supposed to carry some weight in this world. 1% of the population might agree with this wussy whiney lightstepper. But we have to hear this crap? Amazing.
Satire ping...? Oh wait this is serious.
The socialists’ dream is the day when every girl looks to government as daddy, husband, and father to every illegitimate kid she can bring into her lifestyle of dependency.
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Only if jails, STD clinics and unemployment lines told the same tale...
This guy is Maggot #3 in my book.
#1 - Zer0bama
#2 - Teddy Kennedy
The guy’s a crank.
These people are lunatics.
The Feminists agree.
Sounds like the ravings of a fugitive from a padded cell.
Bone-chilling. Horrifying. These people are utterly satanic.
**United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights**
I just can’t quite imagine God agreeing with that assessment, can you?
Catholic ping!
This shows you how monstrous the Left truly is!
WTF?????????????
I have always believed that POLITICAL CORRECTNESS would bring about gradually the death of freedom, liberty, justice, democracy and righteousness in America if not beaten back. Nothing would be wrong or evil; everything would now be relative; no lifestyle choice or decision would merit condemnation; amoral and secular behavior would be touted as sacrosanct by the MSM and the government.
We now are harvesting what was sown in American colleges by Marxist professors, in the anti-war movement of John Kerry, ‘radical’ writers such as Alinsky, the domestic terrorism of Bill Ayres, in the economic prescriptions of JK Galbraith, the need for America to surrender its sovereignty to the global certainties of the 21st century according Thomas Friedman, the environmental wackos led by Al Gore and PETA, and the George Soros, Move On.org, nutroots of the Democratic Party who number in the millions whose main goal over the last 40 years has been to subvert traditional American institutions and the Founding Documents, the American way of life including personal initiative, free enterprise and American exceptionalism and to ultimately destroy conservatism and the Republican Party, with the final goal of creating a one party state and a permanent Marxist Presidency led by a cult-like figure (Obama).
Reagan warned America of this phenomenon in his farewell address, that traditional American history had to be taught to American children with relentless vigor in order to pass along to them why America was great and is great or run the risk of losing America to those dark forces whose sole purpose in life is to tear America down.
This is a time for Republicans and conservatives to stand up to the forces of evil, especially the environmental wackos.
Here is a quote from Thomas Mann, German writer:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
People decry the 'New World Order' as a figment of conspiricist imaginations, and that has been the very veil behind which the developing Global Socialist Order has been hiding while they and their minions gather strength.
That this battle exists on a spiritual plane as well is self-evident to any Christian, Catholic or otherwise, who pays attention to the erosion of moral expectation in both lay and ecumenical circles, and thankfully, despite individual problems, the Catholic Church has, by and large, continued to remain steadfast.
I think I know what you mean here, yldstrk, but I am beginning to think that we don't have a choice between "patriarchy" and "something else" --- it will always be a choice between one kind of patriarchy and another.
To put it briefly, I don't think the breakdown of the father-headed family, with husband/father as provider, protector, and promoter of the common good, benefits anybody, and only brings about the degeneration of males into peter-pans, parasites, and predators, and the dependency of women and children on DaddyState, another form of patriarchy.
So the real choice is between Islam-warlord-wifebeater-patriarchy and the kind of mighty and merciful and lifegiving patriarchy exemplified by the Prodigal's Father and the Good Shepherd and our Good Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.
The very fact that we even deal with the UN makes me realize how really fked up this has become.
Total insanity.
Where is the guy with the butterfly net when we need him?
Satanic!
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