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Ned	Tuesday, 4. September 2007, 19:05
Posts: 674 Group: Members Member #61 Joined: March 1, 2007	KatyA Aug 30 2007, 11:25 PM Each year, up until now, my parish has supported the Amnesty International Greetings Card Campaign. Each parishioner is given the name of a "prisoner of conscience" or someone unjustly imprisoned and asked to send a non religious card to that person offering encouragement and hope. The cards are collected at Church and posted. It all seems a very worthy cause, but should it continue given that it offers support to AI? My feeling is that, whilst I appreciate that this is an effective and just campaign, the release of one or more prisoners of conscience will not compensate for the lives of the babies who will die thanks to AI's support for abortion and I no longer wish to support it. Nor do I believe that the parish should. Does anyone know of an organisation which operates a similar scheme? KatyA On the other hand two wrongs never made a right. Cardinal O'Brien was right to resign from Amnesty, but he I think he was imprudent to have been in it in the first place. By and large anyone in the Church is better-off not belonging to any other organisation just in case there is a conflict. I understand that this is the reason for none of the Heirarchy belonging to the Pioneers. Incidently British lawyers belonging to Amnesty do magnificent totally-unpaid work, and all in their own time, for Amnesty. (I've seen it because I did a little post-retirement job with a firm of solicitors). It would be dreadful if any of that was curtailed. And they are often representing nasty people we all think should be dead or in jail. I remember the old song: I have no mother to weep for me. I have no father to plead for me. I have not even a sweetheart To lay the flowers on my grave. The trouble is that there are a lot like that in this country. I only hope that someone overseas is campaigning for them.


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