The Catholic Church plays victim, again

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5267.shtml


Throughout its long history, the Roman Catholic Church has time and time again proven itself to be one of the most dogmatic, most powerful, and most corrupt institutions ever created. It claims to be following in the footsteps of Jesus and preaching his message, but its leaders have always lived in palatial splendor and are responsible for a 300-year “Holy Inquisition” that resulted in the torture and murder of tens of thousands of people.

To be sure, the Catholic Church has done some good during its reign, but in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century its true colors were once again exposed: decades of child abuse by parish priests -- in multiple countries -- covered-up by the church’s hierarchy. There were cases dating back to the 1960s, but it was not until early 2002 that the Boston Globe’s coverage of a series of criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests thrust the issue of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests into the national limelight. And the limelight spread quickly.

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Not surprisingly, the Catholic Church has time and time and time and time again vehemently opposed legislation that would allow pedophile priests -- and their co-conspirators -- to be prosecuted beyond the statute of limitations. Is that opposition based on morality or self-interest? Meanwhile, the Vatican and its minions have continued to pontificate on “moral issues” despite the fact that they seem not to have any idea what “moral” means.

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When Massachusetts reaffirmed that all citizens are equal and have equal access to civil institutions such as the state-licensed institution called “marriage,” the Catholic Church -- still fighting pedophile and child abuse actions in the courts -- conjured its perverted version of “morality” and closed it adoption services in the state. God forbid they should have to place homeless children with two loving same-sex parents. Better to leave the kids homeless and without parents or a family. How very “moral” of those Catholic agencies.

And now they’re at it again in Washington, D.C.

Dogma trumps charity
Erwin de Leon
November 13, 2009

Catholic Charities, the social services agency of the Catholic Church, has threatened to stop providing services on behalf of the District if the D.C. City Council approves legislation to legalize same-sex marriage next month. The organization is concerned that if equal treatment of gay people is codified, they will have to provide benefits to same-sex couples just as they have been doing for different-sex couples . . . More importantly, the nonprofit’s representatives argue that to see LGBT individuals and families as no different from others goes against Catholic dogma.

The Associated Press report confirmed:

Lawmakers defy church pressure on DC gay marriage
By The Associated Press
11.13.2009

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True to form, the Catholic Church is again claiming to be a “victim” of civil law that the church hides behind when it comes to protecting rather than prosecuting pedophile priests and the co-conspirators. From Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink:

Catholic Social Services Will Go if D.C. Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Steve Jordahl
11-12-09

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Using religious dogma as justification for advocating and practicing civil discrimination is not only the modus operandi of the Roman Catholic Church. Their Protestant theopolitical brethren have adopted the tactic, and together they’ve convinced Americans it’s “American” to vote on civil rights and civil equality.

Civil courts -- from lower ones to state Supreme Courts -- that have adjudicated the basic question overwhelmingly ruled that the state-licensed civil institution called “marriage” must be available to all citizens, equally. But so-called “religious” leaders say such civil equality is against God’s will and must not be allowed, and they succeeded in convincing people in more than half the “United States” to alter their constitutions in order to outlaw that form of civil equality.

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Pastors defend their “right” to incite hate crimes against homosexuals
November 6, 11:14 PM

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Suspect: God Made Me Hate Gay People
Julie Bolcer
Advocate.com November 06, 2009

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Move afoot to outlaw divorce
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 11/12/2009

A California man wants divorce outlawed.
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[sui generis]

1. They really DON'T care about morality

They care about the thing every religion cares about: incarnating a devil to pin your misery and woes upon. We're just the latest stand-in for their fear mongering.

This time the church will lose. The church isn't the only organization that knows how to play dirty, and quite frankly they suck at playing victim these days.

Hey catholic church - the first crusade you engaged in was against your own people, the Stedinger crusade, for utterly political reasons. You are fucking evil and you have been since you were scrawling graffiti on the sides of roman temples, and convincing poor schmoe's to volunteer for martyrism so you could get a bigger following - 2000 fucking years ago!

And you're still up to your evil old tricks - getting involved in presidential politics, standing in the way of human and civil rights, and all the while claiming to be good when you confuse being "good" with aligning one's self with power and authority.

The church you've built would be rejected in whole by the very jesus you created out of whole cloth. Better yet, the church you've built is being rejected by the very hearts and minds you need be excited about your faith, because you condemn their parents, friends, siblings, coworkers and children.

Go to Angola, where you belong, and every other third world country who still insist on burning their devils at the stake: if your time in modern society has passed then you must go where no time has passed, to the backwaters and the superstitious and the uneducated poor struggling to make sense of the monstrous unfairness of life. Tell them that everything happens for a reason, so they can get through the day but get the fuck out of here.