Catholic Church Fights California Sex Abuse Bill

[SecularMotion]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Making its way through the California State Legislature is a bill seeking to give more alleged child abuse victims time to sue.

If passed, the bill would permit victims unable to file a lawsuit due to time or age restrictions the chance to confront their abuser's employer.

The Catholic Church did not fight a similar 2002 bill that opened the flood gates for hundreds of alleged victims.

This time, however, the church is battling hard against the proposed legislation and calling it a step backward.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jul/17/catholic-church-fights-calif-sex-abuse-bill/

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1. This is all about corporate civil liability not religious belief.

[SecularMotion]

3. The victims were believers.

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4. The victims were victims.

[cbayer]

7. So should non-believing victims not be granted the same rights?

[skepticscott]

5. And your point is what?

Beyond the blindingly obvious.

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9. Point to a religious tenet that supports either the abuse, the coverup, or the lobbying.

This is no different than any industry trying to game the torts system.

Maybe you're simply too blinded to see the obvious.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. The L.A. archdiocese claims that the bill doesn't

include public schools. If that's true, why not? Seems to me that they should allow all abuse victims more time to sue. While I don't think the Catholic Church is really doing this out of concern for victims, they do have a point here.

[cbayer]

6. Anyone know why the legislature has restricted this to private schools?

That seems to be the problem, not the extension of time itself.

And it does seem unfair. Sexual abuse occurs in public schools as well.

[cbayer]

8. Here is an article with much more information.

Other private school organizations are fighting this as well.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/catholic-church-california-abuse-bill_n_3611462.html