tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188078120365131355.post16216855974068685..comments2024-01-16T04:04:41.045-05:00Comments on Someday I'll Sleep Autism Blogs: A Strategy for Distracting the American People: Bring Up a Sex Scandal in the Catholic Church: Part 2Cammie Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137080807945525006noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188078120365131355.post-57517113862899375382010-03-28T16:45:58.408-04:002010-03-28T16:45:58.408-04:00I wish people would stop acting like sexual abuse ...I wish people would stop acting like sexual abuse *only* happens in the Catholic Church. As though celibacy drove priests to hurt children! It's utterly asinine.<br /><br />Where there are defenseless people and people in positions of power, there is the potential for abuse. I think pretty much everyone knows of at least one public school where a teacher was suspected of inappropriate contact with a student. There was one at my elementary school that rumors went around for years about before the school actually investigated and found that oops, he'd been molesting female students for about the past decade and a half and no one bothered to investigate the rumors sooner. He was quietly pulled from his position and the school settled out of court with his victims.<br /><br />This is part of the reason I stopped being Wiccan (well, part of many reasons). There was an 'elder' in the group who was notorious for seducing young women, but as all his conquests were 18 or older people just treated it like a joke. Then he started getting involved with a 16 year old girl--and instead of censuring him for his actions people kept quiet about it. Why? "We don't want the media to make us look bad." I was baffled. We're openly allowing a 40-something man to have a sexual relationship with a teenage girl, and you're worried about looking bad? This was nearly a decade ago, and they're still romantically involved. I just hope she doesn't regret it another five or ten years down the line.<br /><br />And then there's our famous former president and his intern in a blue dress...<br /><br />Ugh. I've gotten to the point where I roll my eyes whenever someone makes an altar boy joke. Plank in the eye, indeed.Catherinehttp://protecteveryone.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188078120365131355.post-4856974504033206082010-03-27T13:30:21.032-04:002010-03-27T13:30:21.032-04:00Hey there Cammie, this is the best post I've r...Hey there Cammie, this is the best post I've read on this subject. You summarized it all really well and kept my interest too. I usually get too bored with this sort of thing to bother reading about it much. I might point out too, the "Wanderer" was reporting this stuff way over twenty years ago. Why would the secular media not pick up on it then? huh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188078120365131355.post-90483216469461832732010-03-27T12:33:35.315-04:002010-03-27T12:33:35.315-04:00I think this whole situation is just wrong. I live...I think this whole situation is just wrong. I live in WI, so the whole story is all over the news. But well, I just knew there had to be more to the story than what was reported, because I'll have to say that I don't trust most news stations. Because in all reality, happy and truthful news doesn't make people want to watch. They want drama and twisted stories.<br /><br />From what I can gather, the Archbishop has had problems in the past. Former Archbishop Weakland used diocesan funds to hush up his former gay partner. So how can we be surprised that he would cover up sex abuse as well?<br /><br />In fact, by the time the Vatican was notified of the abuse, 41 years had passed since the first account. The case began in 1955 and Vatican was not notified until 1996. What's more, any civil case against the priest who was sexually abusing these children had been dropped. So by the time the Vatican was notified, the priest was already too ill to stand any sort of trial. He had already had strokes previous to this and he said he was sorry (which I know is not quite good enough for some, but God calls us to forgive the repentant).<br /><br />Now, it is so disgusting that this priest did this to these disabled children. I'm not negating that fact. But, I'm a bit peeved that the news is making the Pope out to be some sort of evil guy. When in all actuality, it is not his fault that this happened. I understand that in general, the highest head gets attacked when something goes wrong. But the news are painting this all wrong. Besides the fact that through Pope John Paul VI and now Benedict XVI there have been a number of new policies and groups put together to help prevent such abuse from happening. So it's not as if they aren't doing anything.<br /><br />So many people just want to see the Church fall. It's disgusting. When people don't take into account the number of sexual abuse that happen in Protestant denominations, and even public schools! <br /><br />God have mercy on us and on the whole world!Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18037863893536646602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188078120365131355.post-70920881195285355392010-03-27T12:26:20.434-04:002010-03-27T12:26:20.434-04:00This stuff drives me crazy, too. The Catholic Chur...This stuff drives me crazy, too. The Catholic Church is the only real power standing between liberals/progressive and their agendas, so they make sure to pounce on anything and twist and pervert it to their advantage. But they also conveniently completely forget to report abuses in the Protestant denominations and those in the Jewish community. I hate that there will never be an end to it, but Christ said so himself.sarahraegrahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03718064731441328226noreply@blogger.com