Discordian Unoffical accuses Vatican of 'arrogance'

An irrelevent Discordian has accused Catholic Archbishop Rino Fisichella of 'arrogance' for attacking US President Barack Obama's resumption of state funding for family-planning groups that carry out or facilitate abortions overseas.

It is "the arrogance of someone who believes they are right, in speaking out against this return to a Separation of Church and State, of the religious and the secular, which has for so long been ignored, which has for so long been allowed to corrupt and corrode the office of good governance," His Wholiness the Fairly Rev.DrJon was quoted as saying by the Discordian website 23 Apples of Eris.

The Rev.DrJon is notable for ignorantly mouthing off about religious matters in public, often on the 23 Apples of Eris website, one of a number of Discordian Society groups which follow their own interpretations of Discordianism and claim that Spiritual Responsibility must lie within, not invested in *any* outside entity.

"What is important is to know how to listen... without locking oneself into religious visions with the arrogance of a person who, having the power of a monolithic organisation behind them, thinks they can decide on life and death," he added.

Obama signed the executive order cancelling the eight-year-old restrictions on Friday, the third full day of his presidency.

The so-called "global gag rule" cut off US funding to overseas family planning clinics which provide any abortion services whatsoever, from the operation itself to counselling, referrals or post-abortion services.

"If this is one of the first acts of President Obama, with all due respect, it seems to me that the path towards the reseparation of Church and State will have been very short," Rev.DrJon said.

"I do not believe that those who voted for him took into consideration dogmatic religious themes, which were astutely left aside during the election debate. The majority of the American population clearly voted for the president and his team, HAIL ERIS!" he added.

The order won Obama praise from Democratic lawmakers, family planning and women's rights groups but drew angry condemnation from pro-life organisations and Republicans.

More than 250 health and human rights organisations from around the world sent Obama a letter, thanking him for ending a policy "which has contributed to the deaths and injuries of countless women and girls."

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