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To: Pyro7480
Why are you going out of your way to defend the indefensible? I don't care how much they spend on education or malaria prevention. The money to PP and the other culture-of-death organizations is blood money, and the light needs to be put on them.

If you want to attack the Gates Foundation for donating $33.5 million to Planned Parenthood, be my guest. I understand where you're coming from, and you're welcome to your opinion.

But trying to paint the entire Gates Foundation, including Buffett's new $37 billion contribution, as being solely intended to promote abortions is manifestly false. Indeed, it seems clear that the Gates Foundation spends vastly more to prevent children from dying (the Save The Children project), and even larger sums to prevent people of all ages from dying (the Malaria Vaccine Initiative). Far from aiding in "population control", the net results of grants from the Gates Foundation will be a significant increase in population.

I can understand your viewpoint that all these good works do not compensate for enabling more abortions via Planned Parenthood. But that does not justify lies about the purpose of the Gates Foundation or Buffett's contribution to it. Nor does it do you and other people who share your viewpoint any good to be caught spreading such hyperbolic nonsense. All it does is destroy your credibility.

Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer came up with a clever play on words ("The Hell of Gates") which he could not resist trying to turn into an article, and he was not about to let the actual facts of the matter get in his way.

41 posted on 06/29/2006 6:10:37 PM PDT by dpwiener
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To: dpwiener
Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer came up with a clever play on words ("The Hell of Gates") which he could not resist trying to turn into an article, and he was not about to let the actual facts of the matter get in his way.

I wouldn't be so fast to claim "facts," when another charitable organization, named after Buffett's own deceased wife, is "a quiet force in the controversial area of population control" ("Warren Buffett Gives 30 B to Gates, 3.3B to promote RU486"

42 posted on 06/29/2006 6:35:49 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
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