You're intitled to your opinions as am I. And, for the record, I am concerned with any child molestation. But, oddly, I don't seem to hear about the 2% of other denominations that you reference several times committing these atrocities. And, for sure, if they do happen, they don't seem to have cover from the very top of the organization. By the way, is Cardinal Law still in Italy?? The last Pope sure had odd timing of pulling him out of the US.

I don't believe that any church should talk politics from the pulpit. IMHO they should encourage their congregations to be more like Christ. And, also, I consider most of the evangelical leaders in the same boat as the Catholic churches. For their leaders, it is a job. For many of the evangelicals, it is a well paying job. Would they do it for free out of love for their saviour??

I have a real problem with organized religion meddling into political arenas. The Pope's words to Americans about illegal immigration and the death penalty, basically telling the UN he misses the Soviet Union smells of typical Euroweenie philosophy and not a man of God.

I'm sure you are a good person and obviously have strong beliefs in your church. I'm glad for you. But to hide behind the "all of the other churches do it, so don't jump on Catholics" is pretty lame.

God bless!

Personally, I feel that if you don't know how to practice your faith because of a change in the Mass, it's not the Church's fault. This is the failing of American Society.

 ??? how is American society given the task of teaching individuals how to practice their faith???

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yep, we just recieved a Tornado Warning just north of here, we must live close. At any rate racing and f-ball are my sport's. I love to play baseball and basketball but dont' care to watch them.

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Cool One: Let's see if I understand what you're asking. The Catholic Church upholds that life begins at conception. The CC also believes in forgiveness of sin. Thus, one cannot say that the Church teaches that the younger generation are all going to hell. But that does seem to be the point of view of those Christians who condemn the CC for relying on both the Bible and tradition. 

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The article was written by Vox Day (as sourced below it and linked to) it is not my work.

However, I do agree with its general thrust which is that it is a mistake for government to interfere in family matters unless and until an indictment has been handed down based on lawfully gathered evidence. What has happened in this case , regardless of what the outcome is, is that a government has (once again) seized an entire town and declared them guilty until proven innocent. While this action so far pales in comparison to the atrocity of the Waco massacre, Waco is not the standard, the Constitution is, and here we have an example of collective punishment and kidnapping under color of protecting the children from something that no jury has looked at.

Children belong to their parents, not to the government and if government wants to seize children from parents, there is a grand jury system for that purpose and that appears to have been either ignored or perverted. Where is the evidence? Where are the witnesses? Third-party hearsay, as many have used to suppose guilt on these people, is not admissible and for good reason. In this country we prosecute individuals for their individual crimes. We don't prosecute groups and assign collective blame and collective punishment.

I don't see and difference between this ill conceived raid than if the government were to surround Fargo ND or Dover DE, and seize everyone's children because one or two of the teens might have been having sex with an older man. The right way to operate is to identify the victim, the suspect, the witnesses, and the evidence without infringing the constitutional rights of the citizens who live there.

What appears to have happened is that an anonymous caller from out of state posing as a child in the town made a crank call to 911. This precipitated an unlawful raid and fishing expedition of the entire town's homes looking for evidence to support the allegation, which they still have not found.

But now they claim that there were "other crimes" that they now plan to prosecute which were not known until after the fishing began which will likely all be thrown out of court because the raids were illegal and any evidence found would be inadmissible. So even if there were crimes committed, the police likely blew there chance at prosecuting anyone for them. Now comes word that the fishing expedition continues to collecting the DNA of the entire town's people. What happened to the Constitution's protection against unreasonable search and siezure? I would not be surprised if every girl in the town from 4-18 has been forced to undergo a gynecological examination with a rape kit. For a child, that in itself is practically molestation. These children are probably all in shock from the trauma. To them it must be like being invaded and raped by enemy soldiers. How horrific it must be for the small children to look and look and not see their mother or father coming to protect them from the probing strangers from the government who each are operating under the unlawful assumption that their parents are guilty of a crime without a trial. Are we not treating these odd but still American people like the Nazis treated their Jews?

I think this town and its people were hated for rejecting modern culture and dress. What's next, are we going to round up all the Amish children and claim that because they don't have TV and IPods that they are all victims of abuse? Preposterous.

People who claim that polygamy is wrong or abusive should look at the polygamous society we live in today, were unmarried women have multiple children from different fathers and others marry three, four, or five times. The fact that technically they weren't "officially" married to more than one person at a time, is just that, a technicality. Society has been teaching young people that as long as you don't get married, you can sleep with hundreds of people, even some of them in the same bed, have multiple illegitimate babies, and live off welfare or prostitution. Is that not polygamy? Tell me again what we are prosecuting these Mormons for? Oh, supposedly there are children who are underage having sex. So this doesn't happen outside the sect? Oh, I see, it is somehow different if the girl has sex with another teen, instead of someone over 21. If you want to say sex is bad until a person is of major age, then you have to prosecute teens too, but no, we are teaching our teens and even pre-teens everything there is to know about sex, and sodomy, and homosexuality in the public schools.

Okay, now tell me again how teens getting married is abuse? Oh, they might get pregnant? Please, unwed teen motherhood is an epidemic outside the sect. We tell them they should get married right? What if the father is much older? Still want those unwed teens to get married? No? Oh it's different if there is an age difference, right? So that kind of bigotry is okay then? Right? So why don't we have a law against 18 year olds marrying 60 year olds? And why is it that most states age of concent for sex is 16 for girls? The more you look at these sex laws, the stupider they get, it's like they were written by the Keystone Cops. People go to jail and have their lives ruined because of these sex laws. The precedent is now set. Your children can be taken at the drop of a hat if the government doesn't like you. Does the government like you? I am a Christian white male, I know the government doesn't like me. I don't plan on having any more kids because there is no where safe left to raise them.

Polygamy may be bad for those who live with it, but this witchhunt that has insued is far worse. We are all it's victims.

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