The mighty Catholic Church, guardian of moral rectitude and good conscience that it is, has stepped in shit again.
On the one side of the country, we have Bishop Raymond Lahey facing charges of possessing child pornography after having brokered a $15-million settlement for victims of sexual abuse by priests of the diocese of Antigonish in Nova Scotia. On the other side of the country is the Greater St. Albert Catholic School Board and the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese consulting with each other to determine that the right thing to do was to dismiss substitute teacher Jan Buterman because his gender change from woman to man is not aligned with the teachings of the Catholic church or its values. Buterman is charging that his rights have been violated and demanding reinstatement. Steve Bayus, deputy superintendent of the Catholic schools, says “In discussions with the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese, the teaching of the Catholic church is that persons cannot change their gender. One’s gender is considered what God created it to be.”
One wonders. Does the God of the Catholic church also create the perverts who fill so many of its clerical positions? Does this God likewise decree that the church should scurry about to cover up for these perps when their misdeeds are exposed, as it most often does? Why would this God, so good at turning a blind eye to the failings of its pedophile-clerics, have any problem with a transgendered teacher?
Buterman isn't trying to hide the medical condition over which he has no control. Lahey, on the other hand, was carefully concealing his pedophiliac propensities until his cover was blown at the Ottawa airport.
A really poorly written comedy script has the people of the Nova Scotia parish helping the monsters-in-cleric's-clothing paying their debt to those they abused, because the faithful tithe as their religion directs them to, even if the clerics in question do not follow the religion's dictates. Who will there be to take up the financial slack for Buterman, now that the mighty Catholic church, defender of the people's morals, has denounced him?
2 comments:
You may want to make sure your spew of hatred is at least grammatically correct before you unleash it upon the world.
Hating the church's continued inaction of evil in its ranks is good hatred to have. When has hating the abuse of children been a bad thing? When has hating intolerance been a bad thing?
And in such context, why is grammar important?
Anonymous, you have all the makings of a person who practices intolerance -- and loves pedophiles. And your grasp of the English language is sorely in need of improvement -- although, it shouldn't be your first priority on the personal improvement list.
Ah ... shit ... never mind, let me put in a way you'll understand: you're a dumbass -- crawl back under the rock you just came from.
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