Wow. In a stunning ruling the US Supreme Court has rejected the Vatican’s argument that it has legal immunity from all those sex abuse cases because it is a sovereign state .
The Vatican claimed immunity under a U.S. law, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, that allows foreign states to avoid being sued in court.
But the law contains exceptions. The appeals court cited one of those, ruling the lawsuit has sufficiently alleged that Ronan was an employee of the Vatican acting within the scope of his employment under Oregon law.
In declining to hear the case, the court upheld an appeals court ruling that the Vatican can be sued for sexual abuse if church officials knowingly reassign priests who have been accused of such acts in their previous parishes. The Vatican appeal had argued that the U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction over the Rome-based church..
SNAP (Survivors Network of the Those Abused by Priests) issued a statement saying that the Supreme Court’s decision “gives hope to hundreds of thousands of clergy sex abuse victims across the globe who know lies remain under wraps at the Vatican and will only be unearthed through persistent action by secular justice officials and systems.”
The lawyer at the heart of the suit is looking forward to the day when he can depose Pope Palpatine.
Slowly but surely the Catholic Church is being forced the consequences of refusing to deal with the boy raping priestly scumbags and placing itself above the law in its ongoing conspiracy to hide the decades of rapes from civil authorities.
The wheels of justice grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.
Jeebus, save me from your followers. Tnx a bunch
Wow. Simply wow. This freak and front man for the American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, certainly isn’t very Christlike.
The venom just comes off this dude in waves.
Well, it turns out that the messiah that the Jews have been waiting for for like a gazillion years is anti semite.
Colour me surprised. NOT!
You have totally betrayed your spiritual mission, the only one that justified your return to the land of IsRael. Because, to be Zionist without being spiritual and religious, is pure racism and is totally unacceptable. You only have the right and the duty to be Zionist and Palestinian.
The monstrous and criminal state that you have created is condemned to disappear quickly and the Jews who will attempt to preserve it from the inside or out will forever be cursed and will lose their Jewishness, that is to say, they will exclude themselves from the chosen people. The State of IsRael has to disappear and be replaced by a Palestinian State where Jews and Palestinians can live in harmony, where the two peoples will mutually accept the Right of return of the Jews and the Palestinians of the two diasporas, in a sweeping effort of mutual forgiveness, which will be the most beautiful example of love and fraternity conceivable for all of Humanity.
Only those Jews who, in the past and until this day, have struggled from the inside and outside of IsRael against this zionist racism, against the creation of the currently racist state of IsRael, retain their Right to Jewishness, that is to say, to remain worthy to be part of the chosen people. The others, I vomit them from my mouth. They are not even equal to the other non-chosen people. They are inferior to all living beings of the creation. They are not even at the level of animals. As such they don’t deserve to live in the Land of IsRael and they and their children for 7 generations are condemned to an eternal exile, to a permanent diaspora.
Of course it all makes sense one you realize that this cult has a swastika combined with a Star of David as its official symbol.
Just another crazy anti semitic cult
Methinks that they are projecting.
PS: It is part of Raelian ‘thought’ that no Arab could possibly ever be anti semitic. Any evidence otherwise is a “media lie”.
Rape of the Sabine Women
According to human rights activists, the girl, who was quickly married after the attack, was divorced weeks later after medical tests revealed she was pregnant.
The girl was raped by a 20-year-old villager in Brahmanbaria district in April last year.
Bangladesh’s Daily Star newspaper reported that she was so ashamed following the attack that she did not lodge a complaint.
Her rape emerged after her pregnancy test and Muslim elders in the village issued a fatwa insisting that the girl be kept in isolation until her family agreed to corporal punishment.
[The girl's father was also fined and warned the family would be branded outcasts from their village if he did not pay.]
Her rapist was pardoned by the elders. She told the newspaper the rapist had “spoiled” her life.
“I want justice,” she said.
Of course it was her fault for getting raped. Isn’t it obvious?
The wonders of Islam in action.
So you think you know your bible?
Listen to the questions and answers from this quiz show about the inerrant Word of God.
I see Richard Colvin will be back in the news whining on about the non scandal of Canadian soldiers maybe committing war crimes by proxy when Afghan detainees were transferred to Afghan authorities.
Add to that has been the distinct unpleasant experience of listening to the likes of retired Canadian diplomatic schmucks who think that Canada has no interests in Afghanistan.
Knock, knock. Helllooooo? Anybody home?
Of course Canada has interests in Afghanistan and to name just one: preventing the Taliban from regaining power and providing a base for crazy death obsessed Muslims from planning and launching terror attacks.
That sounds like a good reason to me.
My opinions on Afghanistan have not changed since i wrote about it last.
If you need another reason to be in Afghanistan check out this photo essay. A warning to the squeamish: it’s very graphic.
A sample of the horror:
You know you’re an asshole when even the Ku Klux Klan disowns you.
Yup. the krazy loony toons of the Klan have disowned the actions of the crazy loony toons of the Westboro Baptist Church(of the God Hates (insert noun here) fame)
This means that these people:
with a penchant for burning crosses, funny titles, and lynching black people when they get a chance think that these people:
who have a penchant for churning out offensive press releases and for turning up where ever there’s a news camera are too crazy even for the Klan to endorse.
I always find it amusing that all these piss ass little groups way out beyond the pale of common morality hate each more than those they say they hate. Odd, isn’t it?
Wow. The Catholic Church must be relieved at the moment. It gets to take a break from the sordid scandals of it priests raping boys in their charge.
Today that role is played by the Mormons and the American Boy Scouts.
That would be the same Mormons who reject homosexuality as sinful(no heaven for you if you’re gay and like to suck cock) and is in the forefront in financing anti gay initiatives across the United States.
And the same American Boy Scouts that won’t allow gay men to be scout troup leaders because
We believe that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the requirement in the Scout Oath that a Scout be morally straight and in the Scout Law that a Scout be clean in word and deed, and that homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts.
In an Oregon courtroom the two organizations stand accused of allowing boy rape to occur and then covering up the abuse for decades.
The case has uncovered extensive files kept by both groups cloaking sexual predators.
The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. The “perversion files,” a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom. The lawyer for a man who was molested in the 1980s by a Scout leader has obtained about 1,000 Boy Scouts sex files and is expected to release some of them at a trial that began Wednesday. The lawyer says the files show how the Boy Scouts have covered up abuse for decades.
Membership in the Boy Scouts is strongly encouraged by the LDS Church and they are accused of having collaborated in the cover-up.
The Mormon bishop who also served as head of the Scout troop, Gordon McEwen, confronted [accused pedophile Timur] Dykes after receiving a report of abuse by the mother of one boy in the troop in January 1983. In a video deposition played for the jury, the bishop said Dykes admitted abusing 17 boys. But McEwen said he contacted the parents of all 17 boys and the boys themselves, and none would confirm any abuse. Dykes was arrested in 1983 and pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse, received probation and was ordered to stay away from children. Clark told the jury Dykes continued with his scouting activities until he was arrested in July 1984 during a routine traffic stop while he was driving a van full of Scouts on a camping trip. A spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America at its headquarters in Irving, Texas, said in a statement the organization cannot comment on details of the case. But it has worked hard on awareness and prevention efforts, including background checks.
The Catholic Church is doubtlessly happy for this momentary diversion from their own boy-fucking scandals. But it shouldn’t relax. Andrew Sullivan points out that the scandal is just begun outside of the US.
It is beyond argument that the conspiracy to cover up these rapes by the Church and other organizations has gone on for decades. In other words, in hoping to protect the reputation of their institutions by hiding these crimes rather than reporting them at the outset, they just may have destroyed them.
Like Martha Stewart they are learning that it is not the crime but the coverup that gets you in the end.
The (Anglican) Reverend David Rhodes of All Saints Church in Yorkshire has opened his mouth and proved himself a fool for all the world to see.
He(and his fellow idiots aka ’senior members’ of the church’s community) has banned 20 little old ladies from doing their Tai Chi exercises in his church’s social hall.
Why, you ask? Isn’t the reason perfectly obvious? Tai Chi is anti Christian.
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Haiti needs these jokers like it needs a hole in the head:
Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology “volunteer ministers”, claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital.
A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.
“We’re trained as volunteer ministers, we use a process called ‘assist’ to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points, to bring back communication,” she said.
“When you get a sudden shock to a part of your body the energy gets stuck, so we re-establish communication within the body by touching people through their clothes, and asking people to feel the touch.”
Scientology is is a miserable scam masquerading as a religion. What other “religion” copyrights its religious teachings?
A simple google search about the cult’s history reveals the movement for the con it is.
Here’s a hot off the press interview with a “church” spokesclam who get walks out of an interview when asked a very simple question about his beliefs.
Note that he doesn’t deny the question; he just attacks the journalist for asking it.
What a scumbag.
