The emotional trauma suffered by the victims of sexual abuse will follow them for the rest of their lives. Now, the State of Louisiana has just raped those victims again. These horrors have endured through the complicity of government. It's all part of the expectation of privilege organized religion has received for centuries. It also speaks to the disconnect between religion and morality. I cannot fathom why anyone remains in the Catholic Church, other than the brainwashing they experienced from birth.
"What the justices never explain in their ruling is what the victims of child sexual abuse ought to do if filing a lawsuit decades later isn’t an option."
Obviously the victims here are the priests, so their accusers should repent by shutting up, going back to church, being generous when the collection plate pass around and give 50 % of their revenue to the church to compensate the poor tempted priests for their emotional damages and the rest to the courageous louisana injustices* who showed how disconnected with reality they are 🙄
Because legal and moral might overlap in places, but they are not the same thing.
A friend relayed a friend's story to me: he (as a boy) was abused by a catholic priest. When he told his father, his father told him, "Don't tell anyone." The boy felt betrayed, his own father did not believe him. The next Sunday, a different priest stood at the podium. He announced that their regular priest had been viciously attacked and hospitalized, and he would not be returning. As gasps rang out through the church, the boy looked at his father who did not react to the news at all. His father never confirmed that he was the culprit, but he had no doubts.
“If an organization thinks the statute of limitations has expired, they may destroy otherwise relevant documents.“
Wait. What?
If an organization has documents of a possible crime that they’re holding on to until the statute of limitations expires, aren’t they abetting that crime? If they’ve got evidence, proof of guilt or innocence, regarding a crime and they are just waiting for a victim to come forward, shouldn’t they just go to authorities to report the crime? I know we’re talking about priests and the church, but wouldn’t that be evidence of a cover up and therefore the organization is an accessory.
I’m just done with this crap. The fucking RCC needs to be abolished. And the goddamned courts need to be overhauled completely. Remove everyone and start over. I’m not even done reading this article and this is too damn much.
There is something more egregious than even what we've come to expect from the Catholic Church going on in Louisiana. The church has more people in high places looking after their interests above the interests of their parishioners in the state than most. Considering the weight of accusations and the years long denial and cover-ups found in the wake of investigations like those found by the Boston Globe that's really saying something. They are linked to the same branches of reactionary fundamentalist Catholicism as our most recent conservative Supreme court judges and this is another face of the world they want to force us all to live in. This is the same archdiocese that recently excommunicated a deacon whose son was molested by a priest from the church but allowed the pedophile to remain in the church.
This is all we need: the government acting as enablers for abusers, and the ONLY likely reason is because said abusers wear holy orders. About the only thing I can hope for here is that victimized parishioners react in numbers, contact their local representatives, and raise unholy hell against this ruling.
It's bad enough that the abuse happened in the first place. The court adding insult to injury by taking the wrong side in this argument only rubs salt in the wound.
Meanwhile, women have tight time constraints put on them by "pro-lifers" in the the amount of time they're allowed to seek an abortion. And in many case, they're given no time at all.
OT : I sincerely thanks the inventors of alarm necklace. DM was in severe hypoglycemia and fell from her bed while I was trying to make her drink some fruit juice, and I couldn't do more than help her to sit on the floor. EMTs came and helped me. She is now safely back on her bed.
Yet another reason I am now an anti-theist! I'm SO thankful that church attendance by my own son didn't "take" and he didn't get indoctrinated like I did. In fact, he was asked not to return to the last Baptist church he attended. So proud my son has seen truth even at a young age.
The emotional trauma suffered by the victims of sexual abuse will follow them for the rest of their lives. Now, the State of Louisiana has just raped those victims again. These horrors have endured through the complicity of government. It's all part of the expectation of privilege organized religion has received for centuries. It also speaks to the disconnect between religion and morality. I cannot fathom why anyone remains in the Catholic Church, other than the brainwashing they experienced from birth.
"What the justices never explain in their ruling is what the victims of child sexual abuse ought to do if filing a lawsuit decades later isn’t an option."
Obviously the victims here are the priests, so their accusers should repent by shutting up, going back to church, being generous when the collection plate pass around and give 50 % of their revenue to the church to compensate the poor tempted priests for their emotional damages and the rest to the courageous louisana injustices* who showed how disconnected with reality they are 🙄
* 🖕
There are other forms of justice.
Because legal and moral might overlap in places, but they are not the same thing.
A friend relayed a friend's story to me: he (as a boy) was abused by a catholic priest. When he told his father, his father told him, "Don't tell anyone." The boy felt betrayed, his own father did not believe him. The next Sunday, a different priest stood at the podium. He announced that their regular priest had been viciously attacked and hospitalized, and he would not be returning. As gasps rang out through the church, the boy looked at his father who did not react to the news at all. His father never confirmed that he was the culprit, but he had no doubts.
Why is there a statute of limitations on child sexual abuse in the first place? Seems to me that it is just as heinous a crime as murder.
“If an organization thinks the statute of limitations has expired, they may destroy otherwise relevant documents.“
Wait. What?
If an organization has documents of a possible crime that they’re holding on to until the statute of limitations expires, aren’t they abetting that crime? If they’ve got evidence, proof of guilt or innocence, regarding a crime and they are just waiting for a victim to come forward, shouldn’t they just go to authorities to report the crime? I know we’re talking about priests and the church, but wouldn’t that be evidence of a cover up and therefore the organization is an accessory.
I’m just done with this crap. The fucking RCC needs to be abolished. And the goddamned courts need to be overhauled completely. Remove everyone and start over. I’m not even done reading this article and this is too damn much.
There is something more egregious than even what we've come to expect from the Catholic Church going on in Louisiana. The church has more people in high places looking after their interests above the interests of their parishioners in the state than most. Considering the weight of accusations and the years long denial and cover-ups found in the wake of investigations like those found by the Boston Globe that's really saying something. They are linked to the same branches of reactionary fundamentalist Catholicism as our most recent conservative Supreme court judges and this is another face of the world they want to force us all to live in. This is the same archdiocese that recently excommunicated a deacon whose son was molested by a priest from the church but allowed the pedophile to remain in the church.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/after-sons-abuse-louisiana-deacon-and-family-join-anglican-church-incurring-excommunication
… 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 [𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠] 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡
There you have it. The Louisiana Supreme Court has effectively declared children to be the property of the RCC, and not people.
This is all we need: the government acting as enablers for abusers, and the ONLY likely reason is because said abusers wear holy orders. About the only thing I can hope for here is that victimized parishioners react in numbers, contact their local representatives, and raise unholy hell against this ruling.
It's bad enough that the abuse happened in the first place. The court adding insult to injury by taking the wrong side in this argument only rubs salt in the wound.
Meanwhile, women have tight time constraints put on them by "pro-lifers" in the the amount of time they're allowed to seek an abortion. And in many case, they're given no time at all.
And they wonder why so many people are quitting the church for good.
Virginia is for lovers; Louisiana is for predators.
Is it any wonder that bottom-ranked Louisiana is also dead last in Crimes and Corrections?
😡 I hope this fight isn’t over because that was clearly the wrong decision.
OT : I sincerely thanks the inventors of alarm necklace. DM was in severe hypoglycemia and fell from her bed while I was trying to make her drink some fruit juice, and I couldn't do more than help her to sit on the floor. EMTs came and helped me. She is now safely back on her bed.
How do you separate a priest from an altar boy?
With a crowbar.
Yet another reason I am now an anti-theist! I'm SO thankful that church attendance by my own son didn't "take" and he didn't get indoctrinated like I did. In fact, he was asked not to return to the last Baptist church he attended. So proud my son has seen truth even at a young age.