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Granting Animal Rights Equal To Humans

Peter Singer sways Spain, the Green Party, Socialist Party, Greenpeace, and Catholic Church to consider granting higher primates the same rights to life and freedom as humans.

July 7, 2007

Ms. Jade, TheDogPress Legislative Reporter

The Parliament of Spain (the country renown for deadly bullfights) will consider a resolution that grants apes, chimpanzees and orangutans many of the same rights as humans.  It is likely to pass, making Spain the first nation to set a legal precedent for furthering the animal rights “guardianship” agenda in other countries, learn about ii Animal Rights Origin & History. It would also pave the way for the elevation of other nonhuman species (like dogs, cats and farm animals) to similar legal status. Animals could soon become “wards of the state”!

This proposal has the support of The Green Party, the Socialist Party, Greenpeace Spain, and after serious back peddling, the Catholic Church.

The basis for the resolution stems from Peter Singer’s The Great Ape Project. You may recall that philosopher Peter Singer is the mentor of PeTA cult leader, Ingrid Newkirk and author of ANIMAL LIBERATION. The animal rights anarchist movement may have started "across the pond" but it has spread like a disease to our own shores. Watch Europe closely for a preview of our future.

Peter Singer also proposes that Adam and Eve were vegetarians, that "the fall" of MAN from the garden was the responsibility of a woman and an animal and that only afterwards did the eating, wearing of and sacrificing of animals occur for which God punished the "wickedness" with Noah's flood.

Singer criticizes the new testament over the Old, for lacking any injunction against cruelty to animals or any recommendations to consider their interests (even though the Old Testament condones animal "burnt offerings").

Peter Singer maligns Jesus for hurling swine into the sea, St. Paul for saying God does not care for oxen, St. Augustine for writing "that there are no common rights between us and the beasts and the trees", St. Thomas Aquinas for saying (among other things) that the prohibition of killing does not extend to nonhuman species.

According to Singer, "Christianity left nonhumans as decidedly outside the pale of sympathy as they ever were in Roman times." And "not only did Christianity fail to temper the worst of Roman attitudes toward other animals; it unfortunately succeeded in extinguishing for a long, long time the spark of a wider compassion". He coined the term speciesism to describe Judeo Christian superiority over animals. He criticizes Pope Pius IX and also the contemporary American Catholic Church for endorsing the belief that "(Man) is permitted to use things below him in this order of nature for his proper needs".

Peter Singer goes on to state "Catholicism discourages concern for the welfare of non human beings". Singer even calls out Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals because his "love" for birds and oxen did not stop him from eating them or advocate for the abstention of meat!

He does, however, lavish praise upon Renaissance astronomer Giordino Bruno for his assertion that "man is no more than an ant in the presence of the infinite".

Although Rene Descarte’s own girlfriend found his mechanistic philosophical grandstanding laughable, Peter singer blames the vivisectionist fallout on Descarte being a Christian.

I wonder if the Catholic Church would like to reconsider their new endorsement?

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