For four years, advocates for sexually abused children had fought a battle in the New York Legislature to open a legal window that would allow victims to file lawsuits against predators long after the statute of limitations had expired.
Though the bill died each year, it passed in the Assembly three times and earned the support of two governors. And the renewed attention to sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church augured well for the cause this year.
Yet on Wednesday, in its fifth year on the legislative calendar, the bill, known as the Child Victims Act, was defeated in a Senate committee in the first vote on the measure this session.
Legislators on both sides agreed that the 9-to-6 vote by the panel, the Senate Codes Committee, had doomed the legislation for the remainder of the session. They offered different perspectives, however, on the vote’s larger meaning for the bill, which proposes a one-time, one-year suspension of the statute of limitations for sex abuse lawsuits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/nyregion/03abuse.html?src=mv
Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation,
Dr. Gregory Herek,
University of California at Davis &
Yale University &
City University of New York
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/HTML/facts_molestation.html
Apostolic Visitation of the Irish Church:
A First Step Towards a Brighter Future?
By Alex Wilhelm – June 3, 2010 – The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-wilhelm/apostolic-visitation-of-t_b_596885.html
LASTING GAY RELATIONSHIPS DESERVE RESPECT
Roman Catholic
Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna
By David Gibson - May 18, 2010 - Politics Daily -
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/05/lasting-gay-relationships-deserve_31.html
Sinéad O'Connor: Pop Star Mom Is An Unlikely Prophet for a Scandalized Church by RORY FITZGERALD – Politics Daily
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/sinead-oconnor-pop-star-mom-is-unlikely.html
Abuse groups query record of top clerics sent to Ireland
by PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent – The Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0602/1224271676885.html
Benedict XVI Appoints Bishops to Investigate the
Child Sexual Abuse in Ireland *-*-*-*-*-*–>
“FOX GUARDING THE HENHOUSE”
or
“OVEM LUPO COMMITERE”
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/benedict-xvi-appoints-bishops-to.ht
Who Can Mock This Church?
By Nicholas D. Kristof – The New York Times
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-can-mock-this-church-by-nicholas-d_02.html
Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Cases - The New York Times
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/04/roman-catholic-church-sex-abuse-cases.html
More ripples appear for Catholic Church
Sapa-AFP – Daily Dispatch Online – 4/30/10
Hurricane Katrina - Nancy Pelosi - Washington, DC – 2005
&
Accountability Benedict XVI Child Sexual Abuse
Abuse coverup reports hardly unfair to pope –
by BILL GOUVEIA - Attleboro Sun Chronicle
It's not the sex. It's the cover-up
by Matt Gurney, NP Editor, April 15, 2010 – National Post
It's Not About Homosexuality:
Blaming the Wrong People for the Sexual Abuse Crisis –
by Rev. James Martin, S.J. – The Huffington Post
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' Matthew 7:15-23
Victims slam 'blame-shifting' Vatican
AFP - The Sydney Morning Herald – smh.com.au
Gay priests are not paedophiles
by Austen Ivereigh – guardian.co.uk
Professor's view: Witch hunt for gay priests off base
when target should be child abusers
By: Iver Bogen, University of Minnesota Duluth - Duluth News Tribune
New Catholic Sex Abuse Findings:
Gay Priests Are Not the Problem
by DAVID GIBSON – Politics Daily - November 18, 2009
Ratzinger & Vatican “They did as much as they had at each point in time given the public outcry, and no more.”
Katrin Bennhold – The New York Times
“However, Don’t Ever Underestimate
The Power Of $80 Million Dollars Here And There.”
Daniel Schorr
“…the church must … end its campaign to block
the weak and the vulnerable from receiving help
to deal with the consequences of criminal sexual abuse.”
By Lawrence Lessig – The New York Times
Lawrence Lessig is a law professor and the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard.read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/opinion/27lessig.html
Pope Blasts U.K. Anti-Discrimination Laws – February 2, 2010 – CBS News
In Speech, Benedict Raises Fears that Vatican Could Be Prosecuted for Stances Against Gays
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/benedict-xvi-promotes-discrimination_03.html
AUSCHWITZ -- CHRISTMAS 2008
A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Friday, December 26, 2008
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/auschwitz-christmas-2008-flashback-far.html
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Ratzinger, Hurley, Maida & Accomplices - Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
January 29, 2010
(Sequential Order of Reactions) ***
Holocaust Similarities - Child Sexual Abuse Kept Secret For Decades
Out Of Public View
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/05/ratzinger-hurley-maida-accomplices-kids_30.html
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Full Disclosure - The Roman Catholic Church must confront its failings with contrition
TimesOnline – Read more
Ignorance about human sexuality is harmful to children.“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.” Erik Erikson
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Protect children and the entire world will be safe.
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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