Pope Gets US Immunity From Lawsuit Alleging He Conspired To Hide Sex Abuse

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBKBOP4UDE.html

U.S. Government Says Pope Immune From Lawsuit Accusing Him of Conspiring to Cover Up Sex Abuse

ROME (AP) - The U.S. government has told a Texas court that Pope Benedict XVI should be given immunity from a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian, court documents show.

Assistant U.S. Attorney General Peter Keisler said in Monday's filing that, as pope, Benedict enjoys immunity as the head of a state - the Vatican. He said that allowing the lawsuit to proceed would be "incompatible with the United States' foreign policy interests."

There was no immediate ruling from Judge Lee Rosenthal of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, who has been presiding over the case. However, the Supreme Court has held that U.S. courts are bound by such "suggestion of immunity" motions submitted by the government, Keisler's filing says.

In fact, a 1994 lawsuit against Pope John Paul II, also filed in Texas, was dismissed after the U.S. government filed a similar motion.

The Vatican Embassy in Washington had asked the U.S. government to issue the immunity suggestion and do everything it could to get the case dismissed...

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1. Glad to know the US supports Child molestation

It's not ok for an adult President to get a consenting BJ but it's ok for a pope to cover up child sex abuse. Only in bu$h's "christian" repuke society.Khrist.... :puke:

[SledDriver]

4. Apparently so does the Catholic church.

:wtf:

[stillcool]

2. Quid pro quo?

Or Catholic priests against Kerry?

[Botany]

5. Egg Zag Lee

I have always wondered if KKKarl told the Church that if they support
* he will work to stop the sex abuse law suits?

Kerry was a Catholic but "they" worked for *?

I smell a rat!

[stillcool]

6. ...and i may be talking...

out of my ass here, but i seem to recall one of the * brothers lobbying for the new pope's installation.

[damntexdem]

3. Then why didn't Clinton have immunity for a BJ?

He was a 'head' of state.

[buff2]

8. LOL!!!

Was that pun intended? :evilgrin:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Couldn't be that all those Catholic votes had any thing to do with it.

Naaaaahhh.