Pro-Choice Nun Volunteers as Escort
Posted on | October 26, 2009 |
You read that right–a nun is a clinic escort volunteer. News comes from weird sources and this time is no exception. In a recent Google Alert on the topic of “gender discrimination,” I found that there is a nun who volunteers her time as a clinic escort because she perceives choice to be a gender discrimination issue:
Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for “six years, at least.” Keane described one incident in which Quinn began shouting at the pro-lifers as they spoke to a woman about to enter the abortion facility.
“[Quinn] was so angry, and burst out very loudly so everyone could hear: ‘Look at these men, telling these women what to do with their bodies!’” said Keane. “She was so angry, that it really took all of us aback.” Keane says that the group was peaceful, and that the men present were not among those engaging the woman.
Go.Figure.
This brave nun goes even further:
In a 2002 address to the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School, Sr. Quinn described how she came to view the teachings of her Church as “immoral”: “I used to say: ‘This is my Church, and I will work to change it, because I love it,’” she said. “Then later I said, ‘This church is immoral, and if I am to identify with it I’d better work to change it.’ More recently, I am saying, ‘All organized religions are immoral in their gender discriminations.’”
Quinn called gender discrimination “the root cause of evil in the Church, and thus in the world,” and said she remained in the Dominican community simply for “the sisterhood.”
A nun who views gender discrimination as a wrong within the church and thus a wrong within society. Sign me up to hear this woman speak…now!
File this under: amazing stories I’d like to hear more about.
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