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Originally Posted by Sean
I'm really hoping this actually happens. I doubt it will, but this molestation problem has been going on for a very, very long time, and with far too few consequences for the people who have perpetrated the actual crimes and been complicit in it all. I can't think of a clearer way to convey the message that no one will be excused for this kind of disgusting behavior - even the Pope.
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Yes, and I really don't understand the media inertia around this. People should be furious.
I thought Dawkins made a good point when he drew this analogy:
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Suppose the British secretary of state for schools received, from a local education authority, a reliable report of a teacher tying up his pupils and raping them. Imagine that, instead of turning the matter over to the police, he had simply moved the offender from school to school, where he repeatedly raped other children. That would be bad enough. But now suppose that he justified his decision in terms such as these:
"Although I regard the arguments in favour of prosecution, presented by the local education authority, as of grave significance, I nevertheless deem it necessary to consider the good of the government and the party, together with that of the offending teacher. And I am also unable to make light of the detriment that prosecuting the offender can provoke among voters, particularly regarding the young age of the offender."
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And what did I read this morning? A piece on
why the Vatican media strategy is failing.
Imagine a similar puff piece had any other individual or organisation been caught doing such things.