UNITED STATES
Hotspyer
Stop menacing us with your
“I was raped by a priest” complaints!
File this under oh my god:
[T]here’s a growing consensus on the part of the bishops that they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough. We don’t need altar boys.
That’s William Donohue, head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, explaining the Catholic Church’s new “get tough” strategy to silence and shut down those meanie rape and abuse victims and their advocates, by trying to bury SNAP in a barrage of costly and irrelevant legal proceedings.
SNAP is the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. According to the New York Times, it has three paid staff members, and its revenue in 2010 was a whopping $ 352,903. In other words, compared to the mighty Catholic Church, it’s a pretty small, not-very-well-funded organization that exists solely to support those who’ve been victimized by the Church. Which means, according to Donohue, that SNAP is “a menace to the Catholic Church.”
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