Foley's defense: I was molested by clergy!

[Subdivisions]

"I am a gay man." - Mark Foley

[Broken_Hero]

1. Foley is gay, lawyer just said...nt

[Bluebear]

2. There's a surprise.

[sweetheart]

3. Is he saying the two are related? nt

[Pirate Smile]

4. Republican leadership did the same thing the Catholic Church did.

Protected the perpetrator.

[Jcrowley]

9. A pattern?

British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations against Catholic priests. Before becoming head of the church, the then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced church doctrinal orthodoxy, including a "secret Vatican decree which seemed to shelter the perpetrators and silence the victims of abuse", the Panorama programme said.

This was the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, which told top churchmen how to deal with priests who "solicit or provoke the penitent toward impure and obscene matters", according to a translation from Latin on the BBC website. It imposed an oath of secrecy on victims, witnesses and those probing abuse claims and said that anyone breaking this would be excommunicated, the BBC said.

Father Tom Doyle, a canon solicitor reportedly sacked by the Vatican after criticising its handling of child abuse claims, told the BBC that Crimen was "an explicit written policy to cover up cases of child sexual abuse by the clergy, to punish those who would call attention to these crimes by the churchmen."

But the programme's claims have provoked a furious response from the Catholic Church in Britain.

The Archbishop of Birmingham, in central England, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, told Britain's Press Association news agency that it used Vatican documents "quite misleadingly in order to connect the horrors of child abuse to the person of the pope."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/061001233844.0n6u9xt6.html

[ProSense]

5. Was the Republican leadership molested too? n/t

[Teaser]

6. Just disappear you fuck

Just put this guy under permanent surveillance and don't let him within 200 feet of a youngster. Move him to the mountains. Dump his ass on the hideous plain of Leng. But just disappear, Foley.

[MrCoffee]

7. ohhhh...that bombshell turned out to be a dud.

[Connie_Corleone]

8. That's not a bombshell!

Being molested doesn't give one an excuse to lust after underage boys, whether there was physical sexual contact or not.

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[madmax]

10. You nailed it, Connie.

He should have gotten counseling or something - not perpetuate what was (allegedly) done to him on innocent kids. I don't believe a word his mouth piece spewed.