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Oct 10, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Man gets $2.2M in priest abuse suit: Vt. Supreme Court overturns verdict in first priest case

Full story: Rutland Herald

In another potentially bankrupting verdict against the state's largest religious denomination, a Chittenden Superior Court jury ruled Friday that Vermont's Catholic Church should pay $2.2 million for negligence in hiring and supervising a pedophile priest.

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Oct 10, 2009
 
Well, that's 2.2 million they won't have to fight in order to repeal the Equality Marriage law.

Since: Dec 07

Saint Louis, MO

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Oct 13, 2009
 

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Yet another person who just remembered that they were abused in the 70's. You ever notice how extremely few of the lawsuits involve abuse from the last 5 years? That's because the Church has worked to remove the homosexuals.

I know the gay lovers will scream about this and try to say that homosexuals are not the problem. But look at the facts. While the Church was infested with homosexuals there was a problem with abuse. Something like 88% of the abuse cases involved a male priest and a 16 or 17 year old boy. Cases that involve recent abuse are rare. What has changed? The Church has worked to actively get rid of the homosexuals.

Just think of how well off society would be if we could find a cure for homosexuality.
Jesica Smith

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Oct 26, 2009
 
Yet another person who was abused raped by a priest. You ever notice how many of these cases are recently being exposed? That's because the world is finally standing up to this instatutionalised rape of children.

I know the Jesu freaks will scream about this and try to say that homosexuals are the problem. But look at the facts. Every week new cases appear and most of these relate to youth pastors and young girls. Nothing has changed. Christians think that by demonising another group we will forget that it's their priests who have been raping our children for hundreds of years.

Just think of how well off society would be if we could outlaw these superstitious hate-groups.

Since: Dec 07

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Jesica Smith wrote:
Yet another person who was abused raped by a priest. You ever notice how many of these cases are recently being exposed? That's because the world is finally standing up to this instatutionalised rape of children.
I know the Jesu freaks will scream about this and try to say that homosexuals are the problem. But look at the facts. Every week new cases appear and most of these relate to youth pastors and young girls. Nothing has changed. Christians think that by demonising another group we will forget that it's their priests who have been raping our children for hundreds of years.
Just think of how well off society would be if we could outlaw these superstitious hate-groups.
From Wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abu... . Hardly a conservative viewpoint but ...

"An overwhelming majority of the victims, 81 percent, were males. A majority of the victims were post-pubescent adolescents with a small percentage of the priests accused of abusing children who had not reached puberty.

The John Jay Report determined that just under 6% of victims were 7 years of age or younger. 16% of the victims were between age 8 and age 10.

Some sources have asserted that most of the victims were between the ages of 16 and 17, making the sexual abuse instances of hebephilia rather than pedophilia. These sources argue that, by failing to make this distinction, the media has fostered a misconception of the problem."

As I said above, the problem was homosexual priest. Males abusing 16 and 17 year old males is homosexuality. The Church has been working to remove the gay priests. So until we find a cure for homosexuality they need to be kept away from positions of power and trust.
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