Bill Donohue wants to let child molestors off the hook...

[Archae]

Yeah, because according to Donohue, (and I'm not making this up,) "They wanted to be molested, since they were all gay."

Who Would Oppose Eliminating the Statute of Limitations on Child Sex Abuse Cases? Catholics.

May 3, 2016 by Hemant Mehta 70 Comments


***Update***: We posted this earlier in the morning but the links weren’t working, so we deleted the old post to make room for this one.

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When former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was given a 15-month jail sentence last week, it was only because of bank fraud. Even though he reportedly molested four boys, he wasn’t punished for that because the statute of limitations had expired.

You would think that if he actually abused them, it wouldn’t matter how much time had passed, and it’s scary to think that he could very easily have gotten away with it scot-free if not for some idiotic bank transactions connected with it.

In New York, where you only have until the age of 23 to bring charges against your childhood abuser, legislators are working on a bill to eliminate the statute of limitations once and for all in these cases.

Who would oppose something so sensible?

The Catholic Church, of course. The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue issued a full-page ad in the Albany Times-Union yesterday denouncing the legislation:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/05/03/who-would-oppose-eliminating-the-statute-of-limitations-on-child-sex-abuse-cases-catholics/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friendlyatheist_050316UTC050522_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=51291514&spUserID=MTE4MTY1MzAzMTE5S0&spJobID=920365538&spReportId=OTIwMzY1NTM4S0

[truebrit71]

1. Fuck that guy. And the rest of the apologists...

...of that sick cult of child-buggerers...

[Iggo]

2. The Catholic Church.

Of course.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. One must wonder what hides in Bill's closets.

I will grant you that man has devised no mechanism as effective as religious zealotry for twisting minds and mangling morals, but it is always possible that, for Bill, the interest is personal.

[lame54]

4. A first I read it as Phil Donahue...

and I thought "WTF?"

Ohhhhh BILL Donohue - now that makes sense

[badin]

5. G O D

The only response the Go On Diddling crowd can muster

[Initech]

6. With these assholes, is it any wonder why the world's fastest growing religion is atheism?

[trotsky]

7. Donohue is just being a good footsoldier for his church.

The RCC has consistently sided with protecting their financial assets over providing assistance to victims. It's a pattern that continues to this day.

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