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Protesters held a rally outside St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco today to protest the Catholic Church's crackdown on nuns and women's rights. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

April 28, 2012<\/p>\n

Livid over the Catholic Church\u2019s crackdown on nuns and women\u2019s rights, activist groups held national coordinated rallies today to send a clear message to Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican:<\/p>\n

Back off. This is 2012, not 1968<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The kerfuffle centers over Benedict signing off last week on a crackdown of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the organization that represents 57,000 nuns in the United States, accusing LCRW of not doing enough to speak out against gay marriage, contraception, abortion and women\u2019s ordination – doctrinal issues the Catholic Church orthodoxy refuses to compromise on.<\/p>\n

The LCWR is under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith – the Vatican agency charged with overseeing orthodoxy, which Benedict, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, led for more than 20 years – for its endorsement support of President Obama\u2019s health care reforms which includes a mandate that provides insurance coverage for birth control.<\/p>\n

Those who attended a rally held outside St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral in San Francisco this morning, comprising atheists and women’s rights activists, accused the Vatican of hypocrisy saying Catholic bishops disgraced the Church when they attempted to cover up the widely reported molestations of children by priests.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the Catholic Church is sending a message to women that they do not have the right to have any control over their bodies when it comes to reproduction,\u201d said Ruth Robertson, a women\u2019s rights activist.\u00a0 \u201cI believe also they have subjugated the nuns and the recent activities of the nuns who have tried to speak up against what the pope recently said and that is that the Catholic Church should not spend as much time in worrying about the matters of reproductive rights as much as other issues that it is going through, and I say that there has been so many instances of cover ups in the church regarding its own sexual misgivings and misdeeds that it is absolutely egregious that they would feel that they could say to a women what controls she should, or should not have, over her body.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is blatant hypocrisy,\u201d Robertson added.<\/p>\n

The rally, which attracted about two-dozen protesters who held signs up to passers by and motorists traveling along the busy Geary Street thoroughfare, was sponsored by Atheists Advocates of San Francisco<\/a>, San Francisco Atheists and East Bay Atheists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Larry Hicok, the California State Director for American Atheists who was raised in a conservative Presbyterian religious setting, said, \u201cThe Catholic Church has really been putting women in their place lately.\u00a0 It\u2019s been fighting women on all their reproductive rights and all of the rights they have gotten over the years \u2013 it\u2019s trying to push the calendar back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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California State Director for American Atheists Larry Hicok.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very important to point out that most of the arguments against gays and against women come from the church \u2013 they come from religion, whatever church it might be \u2013 and also a lot of the churches, like the Catholics and Mormons, spend huge amounts of money pressuring to push back the calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hicok cited Proposition 8, a California ballot measure passed in 2008 that aimed to eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry but was upheld as unconstitutional in February, as an example of religious groups – including the Catholic Church and the Church of Latter Day Saints – using vast financial resources to impose its doctrines on citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cMy message is primarily to liberal religionists and people who are liberal religionists in disguise in whatever church they may be in, that they should break with the church; that these major organized religions are extremely negative influences in our country and the world \u2013 I think they\u2019re going to destroy the world,” Hicok said.<\/p>\n

More Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

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