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LOL! This is too funny! Typically, Republican elected officials engage in the equivalent of political fellatio when it comes to pandering to anti-gay hate groups and child rapist protecting members of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Never mind that many of the "princes of the Church" ought to be behind bars for obstruction of justice and covering up crimes against children and youths. Apparently, Rep. D.J. Bettencourt, the Republican leader of the New Hampshire House did not get the GOP memo on pandering. On Friday on his Facebook page (a screen shot is above via the Concord Monitor), Bettencourt called Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack a “pedophile pimp” who should have been led from the Statehouse in handcuffs. Here's what Bettencourt said:
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LOL! This is too funny! Typically, Republican elected officials engage in the equivalent of political fellatio when it comes to pandering to anti-gay hate groups and child rapist protecting members of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Never mind that many of the "princes of the Church" ought to be behind bars for obstruction of justice and covering up crimes against children and youths. Apparently, Rep. D.J. Bettencourt, the Republican leader of the New Hampshire House did not get the GOP memo on pandering. On Friday on his Facebook page (a screen shot is above via the Concord Monitor), Bettencourt called Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack a “pedophile pimp” who should have been led from the Statehouse in handcuffs. Here's what Bettencourt said:
“Bishop John McCormick (sic) of the Catholic Diocese of NH told the crowd, ‘It’s a moral concern (because) the vulnerable take priority in our society.’ Would the Bishop like to discuss his history of protecting the “vulnerable”? This man is a pedophile pimp who should have been led away from the State House in handcuffs with a rain coat over his head in disgrace. He has absolutely no moral credibility to lecture anyone.”
*As both the Concord Monitor and the Youngstown News report, before being named bishop of Manchester in 1998, Bishop McCormack was a top aide to Cardinal Bernard Law in Boston - where the Catholic sex-abuse scandal first exploded in the USA - where McCormack was in charge of investigating sexual-misconduct allegations. We all know what kind of job McCormack did and it certainly did not involve giving a damn about the safety of children and youths.
*Here's this from the Youngstown News as to how McCormack avoided having his disgust ass hit with criminal charges:
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In 2002, McCormack averted criminal charges against the New Hampshire diocese by agreeing that it had harmed children by moving abusive priests from parish to parish.
*The Concord Monitor also has this:
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“Bishop McCormack was assigned, when he worked under Cardinal Law, reassigning priests who they had knowledge were sexually abusing children,” Bettencourt said. “What he did is he shuffled them from church to church, knowing that they had this history.”
*Kudos to Bettencourt. Would that there were more Catholics and Republicans who were willing to speak the truth about the Church hierarchy.
1 comment:
This is an example of reaping what they have sown. Because of their role in the shuffling of pedophile priests and covering up the sex abuse scandal, the hierarchy became morally irrelevant. It is ironic that this legislator no doubt agrees with the Church hierarchy on abortion and marriage equality. Yet, when bishops do speak out now on issues of genuine Christian social justice, that is speaking out for workers, immigrants, the poor, the downtrodden, and the dispossessed, they will be ignored.
So, I cannot share in your Schadenfreude. There are many things that I still love about the Church. My heroes still are Dorothy Day and Oscar Romero. The bishops created this tragedy, yes. But I struggle with a faith that I still love.
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