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trinityvixenOr, how not to keep a law you don't like from getting passed:
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.
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“We believe this bill is designed to bankrupt the Catholic Church,” said Dennis Poust, spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference, a group representing the bishops of the state’s eight dioceses.
The Catholic Church has several billion dollars in assets and income and property--so much money they don't even really know how much they have. Going around saying we can't extend the statute of limitations on sexual abuse of minors because it would bankrupt you is tantamount to admitting you've abused a lot of children. Isn't it?
I guess their thinking is more that spurious lawsuits will crop up as all the gold-diggers who were made ineligible by dint of being just a skoosh too old are suddenly given a few years of leeway. But, yeah, that's really not how it sounds when all they can do is complain about giving the courts a little more time to make sure the abused find justice. They would have a better go of it mentioning the disparity between the proposed changes to abuse cases involving religious rather than state institutions.
Then again, this is the institution that said a nine-year-old girl should be forced to birth twins because their lives were more important than hers. So their inability to be sympathetic or even at all aware of how monstrously insensitive they sound is sorta a thing with them.
The new twist on that Brazilian case: The Vatican has officially affirmed that killing fetuses that would kill the girl gestating them is an unpardonable crime. More good news: the stepfather that raped the girl may also have abused her handicapped sister. But since rape and abuse of minor children--to say nothing of incest (yes, the Catholic Church believed at one point even step-relations were unsuitable for sexual partnerships because of incest rules)--is not an unforgivable sin, they're still not touching the perpetrator. Those evil abortionating doctors and the mother, on the other hand, are fair game. They get to be kicked out of paradise for giving a shit about this girl. That's okay. I'll see them in Hell with the rest of us humanist types and reassure them that no matter that ass-full of hot coals, they still did the right thing.
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.
...
“We believe this bill is designed to bankrupt the Catholic Church,” said Dennis Poust, spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference, a group representing the bishops of the state’s eight dioceses.
The Catholic Church has several billion dollars in assets and income and property--so much money they don't even really know how much they have. Going around saying we can't extend the statute of limitations on sexual abuse of minors because it would bankrupt you is tantamount to admitting you've abused a lot of children. Isn't it?
I guess their thinking is more that spurious lawsuits will crop up as all the gold-diggers who were made ineligible by dint of being just a skoosh too old are suddenly given a few years of leeway. But, yeah, that's really not how it sounds when all they can do is complain about giving the courts a little more time to make sure the abused find justice. They would have a better go of it mentioning the disparity between the proposed changes to abuse cases involving religious rather than state institutions.
Then again, this is the institution that said a nine-year-old girl should be forced to birth twins because their lives were more important than hers. So their inability to be sympathetic or even at all aware of how monstrously insensitive they sound is sorta a thing with them.
The new twist on that Brazilian case: The Vatican has officially affirmed that killing fetuses that would kill the girl gestating them is an unpardonable crime. More good news: the stepfather that raped the girl may also have abused her handicapped sister. But since rape and abuse of minor children--to say nothing of incest (yes, the Catholic Church believed at one point even step-relations were unsuitable for sexual partnerships because of incest rules)--is not an unforgivable sin, they're still not touching the perpetrator. Those evil abortionating doctors and the mother, on the other hand, are fair game. They get to be kicked out of paradise for giving a shit about this girl. That's okay. I'll see them in Hell with the rest of us humanist types and reassure them that no matter that ass-full of hot coals, they still did the right thing.
