To: marshmallow
"would be in direct confrontation with fundamental, 1,000-year-old traditions, our faith, and the monastic spirit of the Mountain." Yeah, yeah, yeah, but there's some 34 year old lesbian in Amsterdam who is offended by your tradition, so CHANGE IT!
< sarcasm off >
2 posted on
09/12/2003 9:19:11 AM PDT by
TexasNative2000
(You may disagree with me, but I will fight for your right to be in error.)
To: marshmallow
Unbelievable.
Actually, it's vrey believable.
The right to not be offended (If you're a leftist, homosexual deviant or feminist) will soon be the law of Europe.
3 posted on
09/12/2003 9:21:54 AM PDT by
Guillermo
( Proud Infidel)
To: marshmallow; Polycarp
Nuke the European Parliament! (just a figure of speech, honest ...) I can't believe any sovereign nation would put up with this kind of interference ... get yourselves out of the EU, Greece; it's only going to get worse!
(Did you see this, doc?)
4 posted on
09/12/2003 9:22:55 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(RIP Johnny Cash ... Go rest high on that mountain!)
To: marshmallow
It would hurt some feminizt's feelings to be forbidden to visit a sacred place and now we can't have that. That's discrimination against women and it has got to go.
5 posted on
09/12/2003 9:24:48 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: marshmallow
"It's simply unbelievable," said Hilary White, spokesman for Campaign Life Catholic. "Is no-one ever to be left alone by these busybodies? As a Catholic woman, I can truly say that I have always been grateful that the monks of Athos have been there praising, worshipping, and interceding with God on my behalf and I have never felt the slightest desire to go there and disturb their peace. Who will liberate us from these tyrants of secularist tolerance when they have eliminated all traces of religious freedom from every corner of the world?"
The lady sums it up quiet nicely.
This is the results of giving intolerant and bias liberal/socialists the authority to change people's lives according to their own whim. They are, as the lady says, tyrants, and those that follow them willingly are fools.
6 posted on
09/12/2003 9:26:12 AM PDT by
Noachian
(Liberalism belongs to the Fool, the Fraud, and the Vacuous.)
To: marshmallow
European Parliament is sort of a petri dish for World Government. The Greeks need to pull out and tell the others to go suck a olive branch.
7 posted on
09/12/2003 9:27:15 AM PDT by
whereasandsoforth
(tagged for migratory purposes only)
To: marshmallow
Is there nothing that is sacred from these meddlesome busybodies.
8 posted on
09/12/2003 9:31:01 AM PDT by
coffeecup
To: marshmallow
Typical of Utopians who seek to make everybody toe their concept of a perfected world. I know of no conservative Utopians and that especially includes our Founding Fathers. Governments, like fire, are useful and essential servants but are dangerous masters.
Our US Constitution put severe limits on what our government could or could not do. It lasted and worked reasonably well until the Great Depression when the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights became invisible to the US Supreme Court. What we now see in the above example will repeat here as these Utopians and professional busybodies seek to perfect their world and drag the rest of us into their dreams and our nightmares!
9 posted on
09/12/2003 9:35:05 AM PDT by
SES1066
To: marshmallow
They're right the Europeeing ParlaMENTALS, doncha see? "Can't we just all get along?", they say, and if you disagree with such a beautiful notion, then off with your fascist butt to a re-education camp.
10 posted on
09/12/2003 9:38:14 AM PDT by
Revolting cat!
(Go ahead, make my day and re-state the obvious! Again!)
To: marshmallow
It's astonishing that Europeans keep putting up with these diktats from unelected bureaucrats.
English farmers have been arrested for selling their produce by the pound, not in supermarkets but at farm stands.
An article posted here a few months ago noted that pig farmers now have to give their pigs toys to play with, for fear that they will chew off each other's tails.
And there's no way to vote the rascals out.
11 posted on
09/12/2003 9:47:30 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: marshmallow
Strangely enough, none of these leftist facists ever think to challenge or question the Muslim prohibition of 'infidels' from visiting the sacred shrines of Islam--and the penalty is death.
Personally, if no one wants me to go to their private religious site, I'm OK with that.
15 posted on
09/12/2003 10:04:08 AM PDT by
wildbill
To: marshmallow
For a thousand years, the Greek Orthodox monks of Mount Athos have been praying in quiet and seclusion, unmolested by the outside world. Is this land is private property? If so why does it mention that the monks were given "special protection"?
16 posted on
09/12/2003 10:11:54 AM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Retribution is inevitable. Sometimes, it's just not a good time to sing Kum-by-yah.)
To: marshmallow
Oh, good grief.
To: marshmallow
NWO in action. Coming to our shores soon.
18 posted on
09/12/2003 10:22:03 AM PDT by
Beck_isright
(Shenandoah and Blue Ridge will re-emerge as the investment of the 21st Century....)
To: marshmallow
Looks like they could use some "separation of church and state" over there...
19 posted on
09/12/2003 10:22:38 AM PDT by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: marshmallow; .45MAN; AAABEST; AKA Elena; al_c; american colleen; Angelus Errare; Antoninus; ...
European Parliament Says Monks Must End 1,000-Year Male Only TraditionScr*w the EU.
Ping. (As usual, if you would like to be added to or removed from my "conservative Catholics" ping list, just send me a FReepmail. Please realize that some of my "ping" posts are long.)
20 posted on
09/12/2003 10:35:11 AM PDT by
Polycarp
("women will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith, love and holiness" 1Tim2:15)
To: marshmallow
Methinks it's time to tell this "European Parliament" to go have sexual relations with themselves. Vigorously.
To: marshmallow
By what authority do they presume to meddle? Why the h*ll can't these PC busybodies just shut up and go away?
25 posted on
09/12/2003 11:37:48 AM PDT by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: marshmallow
This is the kind of oppression that drove the monks into the wilderness in the first place. And that drove many religious communes to America centuries ago. It will eventually drive some of them to Mars.
31 posted on
09/12/2003 12:38:23 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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