Church leaders lobby against sex abuse bill

Stories like this leave me utterly speechless.

But I'm going to be completely unambiguous about this: Some so-called leaders in the Catholic Church are supporting child molesters. That's an indisputable fact.

I'm referring to the New York State Catholic Conference - which has resumed its lobbying against a bill in the state of New York that would allow lawsuits over clergy sex abuse to be revived.

The conference's excuse for opposing the bill is that it would permit more lawsuits - thereby costing the Church money. One Church official whined that the bill "is just a device to bankrupt us."

BOO HOO FUCKING HOO!!!!!

I don't know what else I can say other than this: The Church should have done something about abusive priests decades ago. It chose not to. So it should pay the consequences.

A similar bill had repeatedly passed the lower house of the New York legislature. But it was killed by the New York Senate because of Church officials' lobbying.

Now lawmakers say the bill might pass - because the New York Senate recently flipped from Republican to Democratic control.

In other words, it's not just the New York State Catholic Conference that supports child molesters. The Republican Party of New York supports them too. (Big surprise, huh?)

When a diocese allows sexual abuse of children, it deserves to be sued for everything it's worth.

(Source: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202428834924)