that's a good one.

I haven't heard anything about the victims - the young female victims - that Josh molested. Very similar to the RCC. Protect the perpetrators, screw the victims.

Religion has EVERYTHING to do with this.

Josh has temporarily lost his cushy job as the public face of the Family Research Council.

Soon as this scandal blows over, he'll get another plum job with some other right-wing religious org. They probably won't put him out front as an Official Media Propagandist, like the FRC did. But he will be stirring the same shit, albeit from a slightly different pot.

cf Newt Gingrich. First he blew up the '98 elections for the GOP with his bombastic incompetence. Then, after tormenting Clinton for months over his behavior, Newtie dumped Wife #2 and took on #3 without a moment's pause. Incredible hypocisy. But his "punishment" was a well-paid sinecure at a right-wing think tank.

Ha! Just remembered that the Gingriches put their bridal registry up on the Web. To show they were hep with all this new-fangled Internet stuff.

I wanted to send them a gift, too. But Neiman-Marcus was temporarily out of the Kitchen Knife Set, Lorena Bobbitt Commemorative Edition.

Just like Jimmy Swaggart, he can give a tearful confession, blame it all on the devil, claim that he's been forgiven by God and ready to turn over a new leaf, and Bob's your uncle. No restitution to the victims necessary.

I especially like the concept of a "taboo system" opposed to a "moral system". There appears to be no morality in these people. If you doubt me, just remember how many times you are asked how you keep from killing someone.

They're biological units for the production of yearly babies and most of those babies need to be male for them to have any status, at all.

They don't express concern for those poor abused and then betrayed little girls because they don't think those little girls deserve any concern. After all, their only function will be to provide unlimited sex for a patriarch on a power trip and babies every year.

My fervent hope for that family is what happened to a family of 10 cousins. The fertility rate dropped to near zero because they'd had such a thin time of growing up in a huge family where no one had much time to bring them up.

best thing I've heard in years about religion and abuse .

seen on Facebook somewhere

Is very very very common place. They are no overly judging him because they all know they have done this shit before and or had it done to them and sheeple have been trained to "forgive and forget" and most importantly not blame god.

But step into any church throw a rock and you will undoubtedly hit someone who was molested by someone else in their church.

I wonder about that aspect as well, how do you tell your daughters that you are going to minimize the impact on your son's life so as not to ruin his life and everyone has to cover it up for a few years so sonny boy can avoid jail time.

What message does that send their daughters?

That their molestation is a lesser issue than their brother's freedom and their brother's future?

What kind of people are these?

something that non-believers are more in tune with than believers. Since we don't have a god in the equation, we tend not to forget about the actual victims of a crime like this.