(August 16, 2018 at 8:18 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I keep reading that the offending priests are laicised (defrocked). Can someone tell me why they are not excommunicated?
Fuck defrocked/excommunicated! Why aren't they in prison!? I have a tough time reading through this thread, not being a baby-raper myself. I volunteered for the BSA when my sons were young. Don't judge me, it was early in my life, before atheism. The first thing that happened at training was we got to watch a video about pedophilia.
I got pissed, because that isn't why I volunteered. Then I realized that it must be a problem. Total news to me, but then I was trained as a physicist, not a psychologist. Our units were careful to observe the policies, in order to avoid that problem. One unit I was in (Boy Scouts) was playing kind of fast and loose with the rules about having 2 adults present, and I left. They didn't ever violate that policy when I was there, but the Scoutmaster always tried to push it. Not cool. Every time you see a report in the news about a boy being molested, it turns out that only one adult (almost invariably the Scoutmaster) was there on the outing. I've had Scoutmasters ask if they can borrow a boy's parent's big truck to haul gear to an outing. When they refuse, the Scoutmaster jokingly says, "So, you trust me with your boy, but not your vehicle!?".
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
