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Wednesday September 6, 2000
CWL LIFE MEMBER REACTS TO LEAGUE MARCH ENDORSEMENT
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GUELPH, ON, Sept 6 (LSN.ca) - Jakki Jeffs, a Life Member of the Catholic Women's League has written a report on the decision of the CWL to endorse the World March of Women 2000 at their national convention Aug 13-16. Written just after her return from the convention Mrs. Jeffs details the events (as briefly reported earlier in LifeSite) and noted that about 25 percent of the participants voted against supporting the March.
Jeff writes, "The sadness of this decision is that the national executive. ... while it gained the vote, it has lost touch with and even alienated a great proportion of the membership." Jeffs says the CWL executive has heard but not listened to the concerns of a great many loyal CWL members opposed to the march, which will prove to be "a fatal mistake for the future of the Catholic Women's League." "The handling of the March at national convention was an example of what has happened across this country in dioceses and provinces - in almost every case - achieving the vote - but further alienating the membership, treating not only CWL members but spiritual advisors and yes, even bishops with disdain and disrespect."
In the most open challenge to the CWL thus far, Jeffs writes: "by supporting this March, the Catholic Women's League of Canada will be saying that it is a feminist organization - collaborating to ensure that access to abortion is a basic human right - that adolescent sexuality is liberated from parental supervision - that adolescents are educated in their new human rights to abortion and family planning over parental objection - that children's "rights" to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of association override parental rights - that public proclamation of religious beliefs on moral issues may become crimes against humanity - and that homosexual relationships are assigned the same rights and privileges as traditional marriages and the founding family."
See the full text of Jakki' letter at http://lifesite.net/clc/womens_march/jeffs083000.html
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