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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:12 PM Original message |
The New York Catholic Conference's Aggressive Bid to Stop Reform of Child Sex Abuse Laws |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. That's unreal - shocking and appalling. Why anyone remains Catholic |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. I remain Catholic |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Even after what the Church did to that little girl in Brazil?? |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
2. The problem with letting people go to court decades later... |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. A minor problem, at worst. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. No, I'm not Catholic. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. You're entitled to your opinion, but |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. The problem with letting people go to court decades later is that most people can't tell you where |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 05:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. A competent defense attorney would attack a plaintiff's account on that basis, i.e., |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. We have statutes of limitation because almost nobody believes a case from decades ago |
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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 02:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. That hasn’t been a problem in other states |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. Time to replay that South Park episode where all the Vatican bishops get their skirts in a |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. mind blowing... wouldn't this case make a great commercial |
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sybylla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. I see a Law & Order episode in our future... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. What's new . . . they fought ERA... they've given us Prop 8 . .. religion is |
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brendan120678 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. If I recall, the main issue that they had with this.... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. If that's the case then they had good reason to challenge it. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. N.Y. bill would lift limits on suing Church over abuse (Apr 2009) |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 05:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. The Vatican thinks it can be so sneaky, and nobody will notice. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Dunno. I don't live in NY and haven't seen the test of either bill. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. You don't have to - just read the story you posted - it says that |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Could be. I never trust press accounts of legislation to read so much into a one word like "future" |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-30-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Who knows. I just know the members of the Vatican are masters of the game of semantic sophistry. |
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