Vatican immunity excuse continues

You'd think this matchbook law theory would have gone out with Bush, but I guess it's hard to repair all the damage he did.

Bush's so-called Justice Department created immunity for the Vatican out of whole cloth - in response to lawsuits involving sex abuse by priests and other employees of the Catholic Church. The Bush regime ordered a state court in Texas to dismiss a suit like this, claiming the Vatican enjoyed immunity because the Pope is the Church's head of state.

This is a bogus theory. Foreign governments and heads of state are not above the law. There's even a law that says you can sue foreign regimes for terrorism - and people have won suits under this law.

Now Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal is continuing Bush's Vatican immunity policy. Katyal submitted a brief to the Supreme Court backing Vatican immunity.

Why??? Is it because Bush started it, and nothing Bush does shall ever be questioned?

And Katyal is part of the Obama administration?

If the Vatican can't be sued because it's a country, does that mean it can be economically isolated like countries can? You can see how absurd the Bush/Katyal position is.

Vatican immunity is not a concept that exists anywhere in American law. It exists only in the minds of the Bush regime and Katyal.

(Source: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/obama-backs-catholic-church-immunity-claim-sexual-abuse-lawsuits)