The Ultimate Expression Of Hatred

[filkertom]

A Green Bay, WI Catholic food pantry will not accept donations of food from Planned Parenthood.

They hate contraception, hate abortions, hate Planned Parenthood, hate sex, hate women, hate poor people so much that they turn away a donation of food for the poor because it's coming from PP. They actually invoke the sacredness and dignity of life

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[maiac]

If those people have read the New Testament, they obviously don't understand it.

[smparadox]

Or the Old Testament either - according to Genesis life starts at first breath, not conception.

[maiac]

I was thinking of the passages in the New Testament where Jesus welcomes the company of sinners, tells people "Judge not lest ye be judged", and says that God looks more favorably upon an outcast (the Samaritan) who does a good deed than on self-righteous pious people who ignore the opportunity to do good. And "Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me." Refusing to accept a donation of food for hungry people, from anysource is contrary to Jesus' teaching.

[idancewithlife]

It's how they see their Roman Catholic God though an outdated (and, I believe, evil) moralistic worldview. It isn't my God (or Jesus) or the God (or Jesus) of progressive Christians, some of whom are Roman Catholic.

It's scary out there right now. It should make us angry, and motivate us to action.

[ext_1043131]

So if the KKK showed up and they accepted that food you would be saying the Catholic food pantry is a bigoted race hating group?

Seems to me that they can't win, so why not stand up and be true to what you believe. If people are going to hate you for what you believe you might as well be firm in that.

[filkertom]

The notion that the Klan would bother with a food donation to people with more melanin than them is interesting, but we'll let that pass.

Let's see. Stated mission of Planned Parenthood: providing health services to women; long history of providing same to those who cannot afford it. Stated mission of the KKK: white supremacy; long history of terrorist violence to spread fear and force capitulation.

In other words, your argument simply doesn't work. Everybody, top to bottom, would wonder what the KKK was doing. Not merely suspicious of the P.R. motives, which is what I presume you are talking about -- I mean whether or not the food was tainted or poisoned.

More, the food pantry certainly could win. PP offered to just drop the food off. The pantry wouldn't take it. Now, I could be wrong about this, but I'm reasonably sure that most customers of a food kitchen aren't going to ask who donated the food before they take it. Call that a hunch. And, if the pantry accepted the donation publicly, they'd get great press -- given the

[hitchkitty]

You forgot one very important stated mission, Tom:
Stated mission of Food Pantries: feeding the hungry.

Worrying about the religious beliefs of those who come to the pantry, or who donate to it, should take a back seat to that primary purpose.

Whatever other issues I or others may have with them, at least on this matter the Salvation Army's got the right of it: Soup, Soap and Salvation, in that order.

[atalantapendrag]

Unless you're trans, then they'll boot you out to freeze to death (Google Jennifer Gale).

[mimiheart]

I'm going to play Devil's Advocate on this one.*

“What was told to me was that they simply said we do not want any food donations from you period,” said Lisa Boyce, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.50 lbs isn't a whole lot when it comes to a food drive. We have on-going ones at the synagogue where I work. They go to two different food banks. One of them comes by every week to pick up food no matter how much is there, one is a combo food/clothing bank, and we just call whenever it looks full. If I were to call the second one and say, "Hey, we need the space, but there's only about 50 lbs. of food and no clothes, can you guys come up here?" Even though we have a GOOD relationship with them, they'd probably say, "LOL, no. Either find another spot for it for right now, or, if possible, bring it down here." It isn't that they don't want it, but the trucks to pick up the food cost money to run, and we aren't exactly down the street. (We are down the street from the first food bank

[alverant]

The rest of their food drive was about 250 lbs so they turned away 1/5 of their total. That's a pretty good amount and as someone who worked in a food bank I'll tell you that every little bit counts. There were days when 50lbs of food would have made a difference in someone's life and this church failed them because of it.

Also PP offered to drive their donation there, the church didn't have to do anything but accept it. And since donations are tax-deductable they have to be accounted for. And I would think anyone suddenly getting 50lbs of food would ask where it's from just on general principle.

At worse you could say it was a PR stunt to try and show PP weren't monsters and they were willing to work with others for the common good. The church made a choice and now has to deal with that choice.

[hitchkitty]

And I would think anyone suddenly getting 50lbs of food would ask where it's from just on general principle.

I'm guessing there's a general policy among food banks not to accept donations from unidentified parties if there's no easy way to detect tampering. Yes?

[admnaismith]

Of course, these parties identified themselves, which was evidently the problem.

[redaxe]

This is an organization affiliated with a church founded by the rabbi who commanded his followers to serve the poor, right? I suppose ova are more important and certainly less able to make a wage than actual living, breathing, humans.