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Bishops ‘helped sway’ Komen to anti-Planned Parenthood policy
Oh for the love of Voldemort. Reuters:
Internal Komen documents reviewed by Reuters reveal the complicated relationship between the Komen Foundation and the Catholic church, which simultaneously contributes to the breast cancer charity and receives grants from it. In recent years, Komen has allocated at least $17.6 million of the donations it receives to U.S. Catholic universities, hospitals and charities.
Church opposition reached dramatic new proportions in 2011, when the 11 bishops who represent Ohio’s 2.6 million Catholics announced a statewide policy banning church and parochial school donations to Komen.
Such pressure helped sway Komen’s leadership to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to current and former Komen officials.
Stop it. Just be quiet already. Is there no eff-up that the bishops of my previous church aren’t intimately involved with? Any single one? If a memo comes out that has one of these American bishops suggesting to Rush Limbaugh that he start calling people “sluts,” I may have to reserve a flight to that moon colony Newt Gingrich is going to build.
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