Christian Brother Jailed For Sex Abuse, But His Church Still Stands By Him

As I have already stated, I have not spent hours and hours studying NAMBLA. My recollection is that the 60 Minutes report I saw several years ago called them a tax-exempt organization. If I am wrong about that, as I have already noted, I stand corrected.

But your argument isn't really doing you much good now, is it? The tax-exempt organization that tolerates child abuse? That enables it? That protects it pedophiles? Is it NAMBLA? No, it's the Catholic Church. In fact, the only difference between NAMBLA and the Catholic Church when it comes to boy rape is at least NAMBLA is honest about its intentions and the Catholic Church just continues to lie, pander, and wallow in hypocrisy... and enjoy FAT subsidies from the U.S. taxpayer... which go to help pay the hush money to its thousands of victims and help it move pedophiles around the globe and reward Archbishops with cushy Vatican positions after they flee justice in the United States.

 

Well, that's really good of you to "tolerate" the gays. You should really pat yourself on the back. Now I'm going to speculate here for just a minute...

If you asked the average homosexual if they would prefer to be "tolerated" or if they would prefer to simply be left alone and allowed to live their lives and enjoy the legal parity to which they are entitled as citizens, which do you think they would pick? I'm going to speculate it's the latter.

My wife and I do not "tolerate" our gay friends. We have dinner with them, play cards, go hiking, watch movies, take weekend trips. Crazy, I know, but there is simply NOTHING TO TOLERATE. Except Joe, he's kind of a loudmouth, so if there's any gay I tolerate, it's Joe, especially after a few beers... that guy will just NOT SHUT UP! Now that's what I call "gay tolerance."

Dude, some advice: keep your own house in order and let your neighbors do the same. We can all live in peace together and die knowing that--at the very least--we did our best to let our fellow citizens pursue happiness.

You get that last word. I'm done here.

 

The OP doesn't know the law or she wouldn't have posted this. The order is required to provide its priest a legal defense and is required to pay the victims for what this priest did.

 

But wait--the "other ones" aren't the topic here; it's this one Christian brother and whether he has committed a heinous crime.

 

And I guess that while they are expected to hand over a sum of money to the victims, they are also expected to support the pedophile, while ignoring the victims?

 

Again, you have no clue what you're talking about.

If the order is required to pay the victims then they have to provide the brother a defense in court.

But the real issue in court won't be what the brother did, it will be how much the order knew and when they knew it.

So the order has to defend itself in court too.

Or do you expect the order just to open up its checkbook and write a check to every person who makes a claim?

 

Gee... Are you serious... is that what this discussion is about....??? like no-one other than Christian Brothers are capable of committing a heinous crime?

 

Typical.
They always stand with the child molesters - not with the victims.

 

It is wrong for anyone to sexually abuse children. There is no defence for it for religious people or non-religious people.
It is not wrong for a person accused of sexual abuse to have a legal defence, it is not wrong for them to have spiritual support.

What is wearing people out is the frequency with which the clergy in various organizations are found guilty and receive the full support of the church in the form of continued employment, support for legal costs, concealment of evidence and more. Historically some churches have even moved people found guilty of abuse to new areas allowing continued exposure to children!

Churches do have a duty of care for children, especially those organizations that feature direct interaction with children without the parents present like Sunday schools.

 

Oh I just responded to a ten year old post lol

 

The Church appears to be (if somewhat fanatically) holding to its ideals of forgiveness. The problem is when that forgiveness is used as an excuse to suppress the victims, protect the criminal and impede justice. That doesn't seem to be happening here (though it has been and still is a common problem that The Church has well earned being suspected of).