GOOD NEWS FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH-- THEY'RE NOT ALONE! OTHER RELIGIONISTS ALSO RAPE CHILDREN

Would you leave your child alone with a Catholic priest? Some people claim the Catholic Church, Inc has been unfairly targeted by late night comedians and just as many preachers and "holy men" from other scam-"religions" rape and abuse young children as the Roman Catholic clergy. And some people have a point! Yes they do.

Now I don't even know if my TV set gets Fox or MSNBC, I never checked and anyway, I do what I can to avoid yellow-journalism and paid propaganda networks. However, whenever I visit this one close pal he's always flipping back and forth between these two channels and baseball and football games. To be honest, without him I probably would never have known that the biggest story of the year was about some Alabama girl who disappeared in Aruba. Anyway, a week or two ago I was over there and he was all worked up, in a manner of speaking, about an MSNBC sting operation that was targeting internet predators. I was over there for about 2-3 hours and basically all MSNBC did was show a parade of perverts coming to what they thought was a sexual liaison with underage boys. And one was a rabbi, which is like a Jewish priest. I mean he's a Jewish religion guy like a priest is a Catholic religion guy-- not that rabbis necessarily molest children all day. But not even all the priests do that all the time.

And then today AP ran a story about a jury awarding victims over $4 million from the Mormon Church in another child abuse case. Whether you accept that the kooky Mormons are a legitimate religion or just a cult, you are probably aware that underlying Mormon ideology routinely turns children into victims. In this particular case, very typical of religionist hierarchies, whether Catholic or Mormon, the Church tried to cover up for one of its priests. And in this case the priest was the stepfather of two young girls who he was... having his way with. When the girls complained to their bishop that the priest had been sexually assaulting them since they were 7 years old, the bishop did what bishops always do in such matters-- squat. (Afterall, bishops were once priests too.) Specifically, the bishop told the girls to pray. He also failed to alert the civil authorities.

So a jury ordered the Mormon Church to pay $4.2 million. But the Mormons know their rights and they're a lot more proactive about safeguarding their wealth than about safeguarding their children. A flack for the so-called church of the Latter-day Saints (aka- The Mormons), a Gordon Conger, says they will "aggressively pursue an appeal." (They claim the Bishop never witnessed any abuse himself or some such bullcrap.) So yes, Mormon and Jewish religionists are also dangerous perverts who should be kept away from children, but... Catholic clergy still get the blue ribbon when it comes to raping children.

I don't know how this slipped my mind but I really almost forgot! A couple days ago the former vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix was arrested for-- guess what!!!-- fondling underage boys and young men and asking them prying questions about their sex lives that he pretended were part of confession. Hardly seems like news anymore, huh?