Santorum blames Boston for Priest Sex Scandal

[bettyellen]

http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/06/santorum-blames-boston-for-catholic.html

Monday, June 27, 2005

Santorum Blames Boston For The Catholic Priest Sex Scandal
In an oped for Catholic Online, Rick Santorum writes that "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."

So Rick Santorum doesn't think that the people who committed these crimes are to blame? Isn't that an affront to the victims? For some of Santorum's other intersting insights, check out John Baer's column in the Philadelphia Daily News from last week.

Call Rick Santorum at 202-224-6324 and make him explain himself. Ask him why he thinks culture is more to blame for the sex abuses than the people who committed these crimes.


I can see it now: Santorum launches a campaign to change Philadelphia's name to something less liberal. After all, "City of Brotherly Love," doesn't quite meet the GOP standard. Good grief, the priests and Church leadership are responsible for this scandal. That people like Paul Shandley called Boston home is incidental. The victims will tell Santorum, if he had the courage to speak with them, that a city's politics have nothing to do with the crime of child abuse.

((am not sure, but I think Santorum's comments were made some time ago, don't know why they're being reported today.))

[aden_nak]

1. So culture is to blame for this kind of thing?

Is that also true concerning divorce rates (geographicly)? 'Cause there are much higher divorce rates in conservative areas of the country. Or does that only apply to liberals?

[rodeodance]

4. so says the Wisc Man!!!!!!!

[rodeodance]

2. would love to hear what the Bostonians have to say about his comments!!

.....Santorum Blames Boston For The Catholic Priest Sex Scandal
In an oped for Catholic Online, Rick Santorum writes that "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."

[Warpy]

8. Well, this Bostonian transplanted to NM thinks Santorum

is so full of shit people need to stand far away because it's squirting out his ears.

How he can look at a rigidly right wing organization like the Roman Catholic hierarchy and blame their hiding of priest pedophiles on LIBERALISM is astonishingly convoluted thinking, even for a knee jerk right wing ideologue.

Perhaps if liberalism had affected the Catholic hierarchy, they'd have identified and defrocked those priests DECADES AGO.

Why doesn't Pennsylvania get rid of this moron?

[meegbear]

3. I blame Santorum for man-on-dog sex!

Douche bag!

[bettyellen]

5. LOL! Meegbear, so nice yo see you!

i posted this because i loved boston.
:loveya:

[rodeodance]

6. just found out he wrote this almost 3 years ago. Typical libbbberal bash.

[bettyellen]

9. well, it was in LBN for some reason....

:shrug:

[getmeouttahere]

7. Sick fu**s!!!!

please deliver me from this FUBAR country! Europe, Latin America, anywhere that I don't have to share the same airspace with these chickenhawk, neocon, theocratic hypocrites!!!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Everyone finds it easy to bash Boston and Massachusetts

state with the lowest divorce rate? Massachusetts

state with the lowest abortion rate? Massachusetts

state with the smallest number of teenage pregnancies? Massachusetts

Yeah, we're real moral paraiahs up here. :eyes:

[getmeouttahere]

11. You go, Kathy in Cambridge!!!

sounds more like a model for post-BushCo America to me!

by Santorum's moral barometer, a country like Canada should have rampant priest-sex scandals...not to mention right here in L.A.

[polmaven]

12. Kathy!!!!!

I have actually been haveing a "discussion" with someone along those lines. "Well, you know...the Massachusetts librul morals are a disgrace to the whole country..." type of thing!

Where are the stats from? I'm sure the "highest" of all of those things are there too!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!

I'm so EXCITED!!!!!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

13. Those are from NIH

there is also the lowest infant mortality statistic that I forgot to include. Even Romney is forced to address healthcare for everyone. We're also #1 in public education, though share that distinction with CT.

[TaleWgnDg]

14. Rick Sanitarium . . . errrrrr, Santorum is nuts. Bona fide nuts.

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Rick Sanitarium . . . errrrrr, Santorum is nuts. Bona fide nuts.

Now, that being said, I ask, does Sanitarium's eeerrrr Santorum's comments (that Boston's liberalism is responsible) apply as well to the multitude of Roman Catholic priest sexual abuse of children in England? in Ireland? in Scotland? in Poland? in Canada? in Australia? in South America? in Spain? in Los Angeles? in Missouri? in Texas?

Don't let anybody kid you, priest sexual abuse of children is WORLDWIDE and has been going on for centuries.

When it hit the American MSM, Rome priests blamed the American news media for their priests' sexual abuse of children, and now Ricky-boy blames Boston? ROFLMAO . . . This is reminiscent of the justly convicted felon who inevitably says -- as they always do -- "it wasn't me, I didn't do it" despite being caught red-handed in the act.

The rightwing is nuts, period.
Their poster boy is Santorum of Pennsylvania (shame on you, Pennsylvania)!



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[Narraback]

15. I am glad I gave to Casey

Today is some kind of deadline. So give something to get this thing out of office:

https://secure.ga3.org/01/contribution?

[Arkana]

16. Go fuck a dog, Little Ricky.

Like anyone here gives a shit whether or not you're getting your panties in a twist over Massachusetts law.

[TaleWgnDg]

17. Oh, and did I mention Kentucky. Yes, K E N T U C K Y . . .

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Oh, and did I mention Kentucky. Yes, K E N T U C K Y . . . see, e.g., http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/07/judge-pre-approves-120-million.php">this news article from Jurist Legal News, dated Tuesday, July 05, 2005:

Judge pre-approves $120 million settlement for (Kentucky) church abuse victims

Holly Manges Jones at 7:09 PM ET, July 5, 2005
(JURIST) A judge Tuesday pre-approved a $120 million settlement agreement (Covington diocese press release) for class action plaintiffs claiming they were molested by priests of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington (official website) in Kentucky, marking the largest settlement agreement yet for U.S. church abuse victims. The ruling allows $40 million of the diocese assets to be paid to victims right away while the remaining $80 million is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the diocese and victims against two insurance companies. Plaintiffs' attorneys are now able to advertise the class action lawsuit, filed in 2003, to victims who must come forward with their claims by November 10. Individual awards are expected to be in the $5,000 to $450,000 range, depending on the severity of the abuse. The judge will determine the final settlement approval number in January 2006 based on the claims brought forth by the victims. The judge's decision follows a vote last month (JURIST report) by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (official website) to extend a ban preventing abusive priests from working in the church. AP has more.
. . . more at . . . http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/07/judge-pre-approves-120-million.php


One Hundred Twenty Million ($120,000,000) Dollars in a settlement agreement, pre-approved by a Kentucky court! So much for Santorum's bash on Boston, Massachusetts as the *cause* of Roman Catholic Church priest sexual abuse in America (and around the world) of innocent children in the Church's care.

Ahhhh, here's Ricky's own backyard, Pennsylvania. Roman Catholic Church priest sexual abuse of children allegations fly in Pennsylvania. Many lawsuits filed in Pennsylvania. See, e.g., http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2003c/082903/082903j.htm (National Catholic Reporter online "news" website). Is this merely the tip of the iceberg in Pennsylvania? Will Rick Santorum STFU? I doubt it. Santorum's game is to blame others, to demonize others. Thereby deflecting the root and cause upon the shoulders of others. Hell, no. It's not his Roman Catholic Church who is the evil-doer! Hell, no. Again, I say, may Santorum and others like him suffer the pain and suffering that they have inflicted upon others.



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