Santorum blames Boston for Priest Sex Scandal

[AnnInLa]

http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/06/santorum-blames-boston-for-catholic.html

Monday, June 27, 2005

Santorum Blames Boston For The Catholic Priest Sex Scandal
In an oped for Catholic Online, Rick Santorum writes that "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."

So Rick Santorum doesn't think that the people who committed these crimes are to blame? Isn't that an affront to the victims? For some of Santorum's other intersting insights, check out John Baer's column in the Philadelphia Daily News from last week.

Call Rick Santorum at 202-224-6324 and make him explain himself. Ask him why he thinks culture is more to blame for the sex abuses than the people who committed these crimes.


I can see it now: Santorum launches a campaign to change Philadelphia's name to something less liberal. After all, "City of Brotherly Love," doesn't quite meet the GOP standard. Good grief, the priests and Church leadership are responsible for this scandal. That people like Paul Shandley called Boston home is incidental. The victims will tell Santorum, if he had the courage to speak with them, that a city's politics have nothing to do with the crime of child abuse.

((am not sure, but I think Santorum's comments were made some time ago, don't know why they're being reported today.))

[seabeyond]

1. damn even the catholic repugs shift the blame. any MAN accept

responsibilty anymore. are they all wimps

[bullimiami]

2. santorum is a sick evil fuck

he will even try to turn child molestation into political gain.

[DemBeans]

sick...utterly sick

We can see now that there are no depths to which the Republicans won't sink in their efforts to demonize liberals.

Get ready for the reeducation camps, kids...this is where this path leads. Fight now or die later.

[sniffa]

3. i bLame him for 'santorum'

:puke:

[bettyellen]

5. i was going to send this to you....

it must be your fault for merely existing.....

waht nasty thing did bush say about mass last year? gosh, every time i turn around i like boston more and more.

[sniffa]

8. boston Loves you

:loveya:

our cigarettes are $4 cheaper too. :D

[bettyellen]

10. LOL... i love boston for forgiving me for being born in the

shadow of yankee stadium, it's obvious boston is bigger than i am.
are you proud to be the new gommorrah to new york's sodom?

[sniffa]

13. oh heLL yeah. i Love sodom

e

:D

[bettyellen]

17. i wish satan would repurchase the deuce from disney

and bring times square back to it's former glory.
i know the tourist secretly miss it too.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. He just can't shut his pie hole

He is so stupid and he has an ungovernable urge to prove it.

[Renew Deal]

6. That's fucked up.

He's a nut.

[warrens]

7. Let's compile a list of every red state child rape and REthug pervert

And spam him with it. That scumbag.

[Patiod]

9. So the reason that the Phila archdioceses

one of the most conservative in the country (among the last to get Saturday masses, for instance), had such a huge problem with molestation was......come on Rick, help us out here!

[wicket]

11. I'm so sick of my city & state being used as a punchline

The only ones to blame are the sick fuck priests who raped children and the those in the leadership who shuffled them around to other churches while being aware of the abuse. Fuck Rick Santorum!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Richard Steele]

12. "It's SOCIETYs fault", says the soft-on-crime bleeding-heart liberal!

:sarcasm: :rofl: :sarcasm: :rofl: :sarcasm:

I hope some SMART political opponents use his asinine statement to club him into the ground!

[fujiyama]

15. Yeah really

Of all those up for reelection next year, this is the prick I want to see lose the most.

[I Have A Dream]

24. We're going to do our best!

ANYBODY but this bloody fool!

[dogday]

14. Please Come To Boston For The SpringTime----NOT

[Vinca]

16. Wow - that's nutty even by Santorum standards. nt

[dryan]

19. This is an affont...

to all the people of the Boston area whatever their religion is. This idiot does not know the facts. The former spritiual director of the Diocese of Orlando was defrocked for the very same thing a few years ago. It has happened all over. Shame on Santorum. I called.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

18. santorumsfeld

[SalmonChantedEvening]

20. SaintWhorum Strikes Again!

Damn you Mitt Romney! Damn you William Weld! Ya evil lberals! Good grief...

Can't we just vote him out now? :mad:

All of PA should be embarrassed by this clown.

[I Have A Dream]

26. You can count me amongst the extremely embarrassed.

I hang my head in shame every time he opens his f*cking mouth.

[Mandate My Ass]

21. Meanwhile in his own backyard...

Vatican Defrocks Seven Priests In Philadelphia Area
POSTED: 7:43 am EDT June 24, 2005

PHILADELPHIA -- Seven more priests removed from their duties by the Philadelphia Archdiocese in recent years for allegedly abusing minors have been defrocked by the Vatican, the archdiocese announced Thursday.

Among them, the priests had served in about 35 parishes and five Catholic high schools across the Philadelphia region over the past four decades

http://www.nbc10.com/news/4647143/detail.html

Church rebukes 3 area priests
By Nancy Phillips
Inquirer Staff Writer


In the latest fallout from the long-running clergy sex scandal, the Catholic Church has taken the rare step of defrocking two priests who once served the Philadelphia Archdiocese and permanently barring a retired Center City pastor from ministry.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/philadelphia_county/philadelphia/11801296.htm


I blame Rick Santorum.

[AnnInLa]

22. I just love this pic of Li'l Ricky...it's so telling

[I Have A Dream]

23. Yes, once again, as a Pennsylvanian, I'm so very proud!

:sarcasm:

[jhain]

25. He's certainly "staying on message"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-04-23-santorum-excerpt_x.htm

AP: OK, without being too gory or graphic, so if somebody is homosexual, you would argue that they should not have sex?

SANTORUM: We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. Because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold — Griswold was the contraceptive case — and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you — this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality —

AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.

[soleft]

27. Right out of the Neocon Straussian playbook nt

[frictionlessO]

28. Oh that does it, Im calling him right now!

What a MF'er!:mad: