Several thoughts run thru my mind this morning:
First, for those of you who have acted as a mother to any child thruout your lives, i hope you hear from them today of how much they appreciate you.
Second, the law doesn't have to link Castro's behavior to the issue of abortion. If a judge decides that he caused the aborting of her fetuses and should be charged with the death of "persons" as a result of his behavior, that creates a whole new definition of "murder" and whether an abortion "murders" a person. That creates a whole different status to anyone who assists in a women aborting a fetus.
Thirdly, i saw an enlightening program last night on BOOKTV of a panel of ex-priests, a survivor, an attorney and a man who has written a book, Mortal Sins, about the church's scandal of child abuse. The conversation could have been about the sexual abuse in the military, by just changing the words "church" and "bishops" to "military" and "officers." the cultures are exactly the same, the brotherhoods are exactly the same, the cover-ups are exactly the same, tHe hierarchical autocratic structure is exactly the same, the friends of abusers act exactly the same to protect their careers or the careers of others!!!
One of the interesting statements came from the atty and supported by an ex-Benedictine monk was "at any time fifty percent of clergy are not being celibate, whether they are having a relationship w/ a women, a man or a child." The monk definitively said, stating names that i don't remember, that because many in the clergy have been KNOWN to have had sexual relationships by so many other clergy, that it can be used as "institutional blackmail." when a bishsop in Tenn told a priest he was firing him, the priest said "i know that you had sex with seminarians, so if you fire me, i'll out you." (not a direct quote). Other young seminarians had told him of an archbishop in NJ who took a group of young seminarians to his beach house on the weekends and one of the five of them would be requested to have sex w/ the bishop each weekend. Sounds like an officer taking young soldiers somewhere and requesting sex.
Jean