Stop Patriarchy

…WHO HAS NOTHING BUT HATRED FOR WOMEN…

At the beginning of his appointment to Bishop of Oakland in 2009, Salvatore Cordileone spoke to & trained hundreds of high school youth to fight for the anti-abortion agenda, at “Pro-Life Boot Camps.” In 2010, he spearheaded resistance to abortion aid in Obama’s healthcare plan.  This year, he is working hard to get Catholics together and pass an initiative in California to mandate parental consent for minors who need abortion care.

 

In 2008, Cordileone raised $1.5 million, gave $6,000 out of his own pocket, and organized major evangelist figures such as James Dobson into activism to pass Prop 8, banning gay marriage in California.  Two years later he was named Chairman of the Promotion & Defense of Marriage Subcommittee to ban same sex marriage.  This year, he has repeatedly expressed public support of an initiative in North Carolina, again denying families the financial and legal benefits provided to heterosexual couples. 

 

Cordileone was appointed Bishop of San Diego in 2002; he left in 2007 as they were filing for bankruptcy protection in response to 150 claims from sexual abuse victims.  Since then, he refuses to release a list of names of the 26 priests in Oakland who have sexual abuse allegations against them, to the non-profits that help abuse survivors. 

 

In the meantime, the Democrats offer no real resistance.  Obama, who abstained from voting over a hundred times on abortion, does nothing but dribble weak rhetoric while capitulating to the right-wing agenda.  

Cordileone will arrive at his new headquarters in San Francisco, home to over 90,000 LGBT people and 400,000 women, to preside over nearly a million Catholics (and children) from Honolulu to Sacramento to Reno, and carry out his hateful agenda right in our faces.  This is a conscious act by the Pope, to install a politically active patriarch straight into what the bishops openly call “Ground Zero” – a historical front line for the fight for the liberation of women and queer people. He will not reach San Francisco on October 4^th unchallenged or unopposed.

If YOU oppose the flagrant hatred and oppression of women and queer people everywhere that is being proudly promoted by this man, if YOU believe the Catholic Church has gone too far, if YOU believe in the full humanity of ALL PEOPLE, JOIN US and: 

• RESIST and REJECT this installation ceremony celebrating Cordileone!
• RESIST and REJECT this Pope’s decision to appoint Cordileone!
• RESIST and REJECT the institutional positions behind the Pope!

FORCED MOTHERHOOD = FEMALE ENSLAVEMENT!

ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY!

STOP THE ATTACKS ON QUEER PEOPLE!