[quote]Sweet Revenge wrote:
Look…whether it’s a priest or a teacher or a cub scout leader…this shit should NOT be happening! And don’t blame the pedophiles! That’s what a pedophile does! Blame the parents! They should watch their kids. Or remove their kids. And when they can’t…they should teach their kids to watch out for themselves and not take this from anyone. I gotta believe we, as a society, are getting better at preventing this but the news reports keep coming.
Give kids permission to have a backbone and resist authority figures when it comes to this.
Unrelated but true story: I turned 18 the beginning of my senior year in high school. As a legal adult, I was able to sign myself in and out of school, and write myself late notes. So I missed some schools days doing all kinds of stuff…looking at colleges, etc.
So in the Spring, I’m in school and the Dean of Students, who was a real corrections officer-type of jerk, comes up to me and says he’s got to talk to me. So, I go see him and he says that I might not graduate because I have so many missed days. I looked at him and laughed and reminded him that I was an honor student and he had bigger problems…students smoking pot in the rest rooms, etc. And that was the end of it.
A few years later, I’m home from college reading the town paper. The former-Dean of Students lost his job because of reports of inappropriate disciplinary actions taken against some boys. Apparently, he made them pull their pants down and actually spanked them in his office. No shit!! My question is…why the fuck did these students do it??? Are you fucking kidding me? The guy was a clown!! Even if he wasn’t a clown…get the fuck outta there!
I guess there will always be perpetrators if people will be victims. Sometimes you can’t see it coming, but you can see these guys![/quote]
I agree. Anybody who hurts a child needs to be dragged behind a pickup truck on a rocky road it does not matter who it is.
As far as the media at large, well they love to expose anything the Catholics do wrong.
First though, we don’t know if these guys actually did anything. How quick people are to judge… Though there has been a precedent set, it seems enabling, but the truth is not all claims are credible. It’s big news when the claims are made, it’s very quite, back page stuff when it turns out the be false. Like the Belgium church raid, found nothing declared illegal, no news, didn’t hear a peep out of the media.
Also what not often reported, but I did find on CNN is that all the law suites against the church stem from a single lawyer, Jeff Anderson. He is a one man wrecking crew when it comes to this stuff and he is right in the middle of the Philly case too. He hates us Catholics probably slightly less than Tirib, so he does as much damage as he can. The media buys everything he sells hook, line and sinker. Don’t believe me? Look it up, every case in the US he has brought up, credible or not, super old or not.
There is a motivation for money because of the church’s deep pockets and huge awarded pay outs, and Mr. Anderson has gotten very rich off of it.
Those who received the payouts deserved every penny and those who did the crimes deserve everything they get.
Hey if you want to hate the Church, God, Christians in general, all religious, go nuts. But if you have any desire to be fair then look at all the facts. There’s 1.2 billion Catholics in the world administered by millions of priests most of which have never done anything wrong. The percentage is very small in compared with the larger picture.
Every hurt child is deplorable and sick and every perpetrator deserves great pain, most of us are a-ok.