Cockfighting ban.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: March 9, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

We were glad to see that some bishops in New Mexico are supporting a bill that will ban cockfighting (NCR, Feb. 2). We think it's long past time the church finally stands for animals and against their abusers. For so long the church seems to have viewed animals as having no value of and in themselves and that only humans and their desires mattered. Cockfighting is, according to the bishops, "abusive to God's good creation" and not an element of "traditional Hispanic culture" as claimed by those who oppose such a ban and make money from the chickens in these events. Cultural ideas ...

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