Reply #2: You know. . .it's past time to put this crazy church

[kevinbgoode]

on cult status and remove their tax exemptions. Frankly, the Pope himself should be brought up on criminal charges for intentionally covering up that pedophile scandal for decades, along with every official who has ever had any hand in that doing.

We already know that purging gays is nothing more than a scapegoating move - like most rightwingers, they never do anything to ever really cope with a problem - they just practice cosmetic alterations to cover up the same thing. That is precisely why there were so many social ills for decades that people were taught to just ignore or turn a blind eye to in this country.

I know that many regular practicing American catholics do not think the way these officials do - but if they cannot demand some ethical change within their church, the rest of the population certainly needs to confront them with their defamatory and damaging behaviors. It is disgusting enough that this Church covered up something so horrible and then tried to avoid criminal prosecution by offering monetary bribes to victims.