Impending Lawsuit Against Catholic Church for Kidnapping, Fraud and Coerced Adoptions

Just when you think that it is hardly possible for more foul and disgusting claims against the Catholic Church to spring up, a new Dan Rather Reports piece exposes the lies, possible drugging and other less than Christ like actions that forced or duped unwed mothers to give up their children for adoption. Candidly, at this point virtually nothing would surprise me when it comes to the depravity of the Church hierarchy and their jihad to punish those deemed to be sexual sinners. Not surprisingly, unwed mothers - and gays, of course - perfectly fit the bill as sexual sinners. Indeed, as Yahoo News is reporting, two weeks ago, a prominent Canadian law firm announced that it would file a class-action lawsuit against Quebec's Catholic Church accusing the Church of kidnapping, fraud and coercion to force unwed mothers to give up their children for adoption. Here are more story highlights:

[G]enerations of young, unwed women describe their experience of giving birth to a child as a nightmare – and decades later their suffering has yet to end.

From Australia to Spain, Ireland to America, and as recent as 1987, young mothers say they were “coerced”, “manipulated”, and “duped” into handing over their babies for adoption. These women say sometimes their parents forged consent documents, but more often they say these forced adoptions were coordinated by the people their families trusted most...priests, nuns, social workers, nurses or doctors.

Last month, a Dan Rather Reports producer and crew were in Canberra, Australia as Parliament released the findings of an 18-month-long investigation revealing illegal and unethical tactics used to convince young, unmarried mothers to surrender their babies to adoptive homes from the late 1940s to the 1980s.

There was a lot of testimony from people that were associated with Catholic institutions. And Catholic Health Services here issued an apology and I understand they're gonna be putting in place some grievance procedures.”

In some cases, mothers in Australia were drugged and forced to sign papers relinquishing custody. In others, women were told their children had died. Single mothers also did not have access to the financial support given to widows or abandoned wives, and many were told by doctors, nurses, and social workers that they were unfit to raise a child. Siewert says, “We heard practices that were either illegal or unethical and downright cruel.”

Two weeks ago, a prominent Canadian law firm announced that it would file a class-action lawsuit against Quebec's Catholic Church accusing the Church of kidnapping, fraud and coercion to force unwed mothers to give up their children for adoption. . . . "The beliefs the Catholic Church (in Quebec) had about premarital sex and the judgmental approach the church had, made it particularly aggressive in pressuring women into putting their children up for adoption."

Can someone explain to me why anyone remotely moral and with a shred of concern for others as equal human beings remain affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church? The Church's sick obsession with all things sexual and desire to punish alleged sexual sinners has caused horrific grief over the decades and centuries - not to mention the damaged lives of children and youths who were knowingly left in the clutches of sexual predators and child rapists.