“The very private drama of mother and son began on
May 12, 1965, when O’Mara gave birth to an illegitimate child, the product of a
brief liaison with actor David Orchard.” This was part of an article that was
printed in a major British newspaper today, the 11th of May 2014, written by a writer who has not caught up yet with the 21st century or the more
enlightened healthy norms that are associated with it. The article was about
the life and death of a British actress called Kate O’ Mara. He is not alone of
people who write like this; many writers do for the Catholic Church and other
“Christian’ faith propaganda news sheets. It is the word ‘illegitimate’ that
inflames any reasoned free thinking person of the past, the present, and
hopefully always the future.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word
illegitimate as this: (1) Not recognized as lawful off spring; specifically:
born of parents not married to each other. (2) Not rightly deduced or inferred:
Illogical. (3) Departing from the regular: erratic (4) Not sanctioned by law
(5) Not authorized by good usage.
There is more but you get the point, though how can
a child be associated in part or in full with such a word that is more
intentioned to define fraud and white collar crime than the miracle of birth of
a truly innocent or of the parents that committed such a heinous act as that of
lovemaking? It is all about power and indoctrination that is religion, any
religion, where the only proof asked and given is that you be one of the
faithful of a long tradition that was founded on fear. That tradition is the
only proof that is offered for such a twisted morality on the miracle of birth.
Religious right is driven only by the might of numbers, much like politics, and
mercifully those numbers are falling fast even with the die hard members of the major mainstream occult religions that
can brand any baby as illegitimate.
For the many children abandoned, and given away for
profit by religious groups that were in involved in ‘illegitimate’ adoptions
just in this small country alone; for those who were buried in secret here by
shamed mothers because of the scaremongering of the local Taliban priest; for
those hidden on remote islands and hilltops less they assail the purity of
thoughts of the faithful or spoil the view of the countryside, may this never
happen ever again. To those yet to be born, or their parents, may they never
again be stigmatized by a word that is so misused to describe them as that word
called ‘illegitimate’ that started the destruction of many children down
through the ages before and after the darkness; and may Philomena Lee yet be
reunited with her beloved 'illegitimate' son somewhere in the light beyond.
By Barry Clifford
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