Rosie O'Donnell: Catholic Church Is Like the Jonestown Cult (Audio)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7:45 PM
This was disgusting…
Far Left Truther Rosie O’Donnell compared the Catholic Church to the the Jonestown suicide cult on her show yesterday.
Via The Radio Equalizer:
The Radio Equalizer posted the transcript:
O’DONNELL (42:39): If there was an organization, let’s just say the Boys’ Club [that] had the history of child abuse, child torture, and rape that the Catholic Church has, would you ever give money to the Boys’ Club or the Girls’ Club?
O’DONNELL (43:28): I’m saying that to support an organization where at the top of the infrastructure, are people willing to ignore the mass child abuse and torture and sexual molestation of its own constituents.
It’s almost like when you read about cults, Jonestown, all these cults [that] allow sexual perversity and sexual behavior.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 86 Comments
newrouter commented:
fat very fat
ogee commented:
Rosie is a pig. She never knows what she’s talking about. Her fat face is to her own kind.
SteveCan commented:
No words can adequately describe my sincere and honest disgust for this fat ass, filthy mouthed, pea brain liberal moron.
Ross commented:
Rosie O’ is a fat ugly cow, lesbo b!tch.
A pox on her!!
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Ugly on the outside, ugly on the inside. And fat. What a sow.
Freddy commented:
I think Gateway Pundit is the last person listening to anything she says.
Jetmore commented:
To the above: ad hominem attacks do not have any validity- whether or not she is a fat disgusting (lesbian) hog has no bearing on the truth or lack thereof her statements. That being said- I wonder if she bears the same rancor for the “representatives” that just voted to socialize 1/6 of the U.S. economy and “raped”/ignored the will of their constituents. Clearly, we as she points out, should not send any money to any corrupt organization such as this.
Red commented:
Someone has to pay for this abuse. It has to stop. Raping children is unacceptable. Someone has to go to jail and it has to start now.
Mary Ellen commented:
This is what happens when a person like Rosie has no idea of reality or facts. They say stupid things like this and think they are smart saying them. It reminds me of a drunk who just finished a bottle of scotch and tried telling a story. It’s difficult to tell the difference from what they are saying and the puke spewing from their mouth.
Mary Ellen commented:
I also wonder if Rosie sends her kids through the school system where there is a higher incidence of child abuse and molestation by the teachers than there are priests who have abused children in the U.S.
bg commented:
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i’m sure she misspoke, she meant Islam,
but was afraid to just come out & say it..
just a sample..
“A woman may legally belong to a man in one of two ways; by continuing marriage or temporary marriage. In the former, the duration of the marriage need not be specified; in the latter, it must be stipulated, for example, that it is for a period of an hour, a day, a month, a year, or more.”
“A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual act such as forplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not comitted a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man’s four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl’s sister.”
“A father or a paternal grandfather has the right to marry off a child who is insane or has not reached puberty by acting as its representative. The child may not annul such a marriage after reaching puberty or regaining his sanity, unless the marriage is to his manifest disadvantage.”
“Any girl who is of age, that is, capable of understanding what is in her own best interest, if she wishes to get married and is a virgin, must procure the authorization of her father or paternal grandfather. The permission of her mother or brother is not required.”
“A marriage is annulled if a man finds that his wife is afflicted with one of the seven following disabilities: madness, leprosy, eczema, blindness, paralysis with aftereffects, malformation of the urinary and genital tracts or of the genital-tract and rectum through conjoining thereof, or vaginal malformation making Coitus impossible.”
“If a wife finds out after marriage that her husband is suffering from mental illness, that he is a castrate, impotent, or has had his testicles excised, she may apply for annulment of her marriage.”
“If a wife has her marriage annulled because her husband is unable to have sexual relations with her either vaginally or anally, he must pay her as damages one-half of her mehryeh (her price) specified in the marriage contract. If the husband or wife annuls the marriage for any of the above-mentioned reasons, the man owes nothing to the woman if they have had sexual relations together; if they have not, he must pay her the full amount of the dowry.”
“A Moslem woman may not marry a non-Moslem man; nor may a Moslem man marry a non-Moslem woman in continuing marriage, but he may take a Jewish or Christian woman in temporary marriage.”
“A woman who has contracted a continuing marriage does not have the right to go out of the house without her husband’s permission; she must remain at his disposal for the fulfillment of any one of his desires, and may not refuse herself to him except for a religiously valid reason. If she is totally submissive to him, the husband must provide her with her food, clothing, and lodging, whether or not he has the means to do so.”
“A woman who refuses herself to her husband is guilty, and may not demand from him food, clothing, lodging, or any later sexual relations; however, she retains the right to be paid damages if she is repudiated.”
“If a man who has married a girl who has not reached puberty possesses her sexually before her ninth birthday, inflicting traumatisms upon her, he has no right to repeat such an act with her.”
“A man who has contracted a continuing marriage may not leave his wife for so long a time as to allow her to question the validity of the marriage; however, he is not obligated to spend one night out of every four with her.”
“A husband must have sexual relations with
his wife at least once in every four months.”
“A woman who has been temporarily married in exchange for a previously established dowry has no right to demand that her daily expenses be paid by her husband, even when she becomes pregnant.”
“A temporary marriage, even though only
one of convenience, is nevertheless legal.”
“A man must not abstain from having sexual relations
with his temporary wife for more than four months.
“If a father (or paternal grandfather) marries off his daughter (or granddaughter) in her absence without knowing for a certainty that she is alive, the marriage becomes null and void as soon as it is established that she was dead at the time of the marriage.”
“To look upon the face and hair of a girl who has not reached puberty, if it is done without intention of enjoyment thereof, and if one is not afraid of succumbing to temptation, may be tolerated. It is however recommended that one not look upon her belly or thighs, which must remain covered.”
“To look upon the faces and hands of Jewish or Christian women, if this is not done with intention of enjoyment thereof, and if one does not fear temptation, is tolerated.”
“A woman must hide her body and her hair from the eyes of men. It is highly recommended that she also hide them from those of prepubic boys, if she suspects that they may look upon her with lust.”
“If a man is called upon, for medical reasons, to look upon a woman other than his wife and to touch her body, he is permitted to do so,but if he can give such care by only looking at the body he must not touch it, and if he can give it by only touching, he must not look at it.”
“A woman who becomes pregnant as a result of adultery must not have
an abortion. If a man commits adultery with an unmarried woman, and subsequently marries her, the child born of that marriage will be a bastard unless the parents can be sure it was conceived after they were married.”
“A child born of an adulterous father is legitimate.”
“The best person to breast-feed a newborn baby it its own mother. It
is preferable that she not ask to be paid for such service, but that her husband pay her for it of his own free will. If the sum the mother asks for is greater than that charged by a wet nurse, the husband is free to take the child from its mother and turn it over to the wet nurse.”
“A man who repudiates his wife must be of sound mind and past the age
of puberty. He must do so of his own free will and without any constraint; therefore, if the formula for divorce is spoken in jest the marriage is not annulled.”
“A woman temporarily married, say, for a month or a year, has her marriage automatically annulled at the end of that time, or at any other time when the husband releases her from the balance of her engagement. It is not necessary for this that there be any witnesses, or that the woman have had her period.”
“A woman who has not yet reached the age of nine or a menopausal woman may remarry immediately after divorce, without waiting the hundred days that are otherwise required.”
“A woman who has had her ninth birthday, or who has not yet entered menopause, must wait for three menstrual periods after her divorce before being allowed to remarry. If a woman who has not reached her ninth birthday or who has not entered menopause gets temporarily married, she must, at the end of the contract or when the husband has released her from part of it, wait two menstrual periods or forty-five days before marrying again.”
“If the father or paternal grandfather of a boy has him marry a woman for a temporary marriage, he may prematurely cancel it in the boy’s interest, even if the marriage was contracted before the boy reached the age of puberty. If, for example, a fourteen-year-old boy has been married off to
a woman for a period of two years, they may return her freedom to the woman before this time has run its course; but a continuing marriage cannot be broken in this way.”
“If a man repudiates his wife without informing her of it, and continues to meet her expenses for a period of, say, a year, and at the end of that time informs her that he got a divorce a year earlier and shows her proof of it, he may require that she return to him anything he has bought or given her during that time, provided that she has not used it up or consumed it, in which case he cannot demand its return.”
“If a child dies within the mother’s womb and it is a danger to her life to leave it there, it must be extracted in the easiest way possible; it can. if need be, cut into pieces; this should be done by the woman’s husband or
a midwife.”
“A woman who wishes to pursue her studies toward the end of being able to earn her living through respectable work, and who has a male teacher, may do so if she keeps her face covered and has no contact with men; but if-that is inevitable, and religious and moral tenets are thus undermined, she must give up her studies. Girls and boys who attend coeducational classes in grammar schools, high schools, universities, or other teaching establishments, and who, in order to legalize such a situation, wish to contract a temporary marriage may do so without the permission of their fathers. The same applies if the boy and girl are in love but hesitate to ask for such permission.”
more here..
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Michel commented:
Have to laugh at our right wing braniacs analyzing this story as a being about a person’s weight.
can you say simpletons?
I know you can.
Jo commented:
Rossie, ‘the Blob’ O’Donnell single handily keeps the ice-creme business making profits.
bg commented:
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Earth calling Rosie O, come in Rosie O..
The Pope and the New York Times
Cardinal Ratzinger did more than
anyone to hold abusers accountable.
[A few years later, when the CDF assumed authority over all abuse
cases, Cardinal Ratzinger implemented changes that allowed for direct administrative action instead of trials that often took years. Roughly 60% of priests accused of sexual abuse were handled this way. The man who is now pope reopened cases that had been closed; did more than anyone to process cases and hold abusers accountable; and became the first pope to meet with victims. Isn't the more reasonable interpretation of all these events that Cardinal Ratzinger's experience with cases like Murphy's helped lead him to promote reforms that gave the church more effective tools for handling priestly abuse?
That's not to say that the press should be shy, even about Pope Benedict XVI's decisions as archbishop and cardinal. The Murphy case raises hard questions: why it took the archbishops of Milwaukee nearly two decades to suspend Murphy from his ministry; why innocent people whose lives had been shattered by men they are supposed to view as icons of Christ found so little justice; how bishops should deal with an accused clergyman when criminal investigations are inconclusive; how to balance the demands of justice with the Catholic imperative that sins can be forgiven. Oh, yes, maybe some context, and a bit of journalistic skepticism about the narrative of a plaintiffs attorney making millions off these cases.
That's still a story worth pursuing.]
from all i’ve heard & seen in clips of The View.. seems to me to
be even more of a cult than Jonestown with much less feeling..
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Audacity commented:
No Rosie, the Obots are just like the Jonestown Cult, only their leader is a charlatan named Barack. They have drunk the hopenchange kool-aid which in the end will ultimately destroy them. Like lambs being led to the slaughter.
Jo commented:
To Rosie the ‘blob’: look wacko, You support killing millions of Bablies. In fact you support killing more humans than Hilter had killed by nutzy ideologies. Nice that you agree, chump!
bg commented:
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Mary Ellen @ 8:29 pm #10
so true..
makes me ill when i hear how ignorant some people
like Rosie, who is given access to the public, are..
as if child abuse starts & stops at some Catholic priests door, like mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus can identify state lines..
wake up, chances are you’ll be the one to unknowingly introduce your child to a pedophile long before either some pervert teacher gets a hold of them, or they ever run into a child molesting priest..
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jb commented:
Short and sweet.Rosie can say what she wants but the fact remains that it was a leftist cult.
Richard Romano commented:
Poor ol’ Rosie — disparage the faith of millions in order to promulgate your jaded view of sexual morality.
Keep it up Rosie.
bg commented:
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Jetmore @ 8:11 pm #7
the immature name calling posts are by drive by, what we call, moby’s = liberals pretending to be conservatives (to make them sound/look bad), but of course they still sound just like liberals, so they fool no one..
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Chisum commented:
Rosie is so dumb that she thinks pedophiles come with signs.
davidr commented:
And she thinks she’s somehow going to be the next Oprah?!?
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tag/rosie-odonnell/
Mitch commented:
I wouldn’t call it “disgusting” per se.
I mean, she’s an idiot who thinks that 911 truth is the truth, and so, ya, okay, she doesn’t like the church either.
Whatever, I mean, if she doesn’t like the church that’s her business, but it’s kind of weird to talk about that matter. I mean, lots of people don’t follow the Catholic faith, but they don’t make a point of talking about the Catholic faith; they just talk about other stuff.
K. Sibellius commented:
From which Ivy League U. does she hold her MA’s and PhD’s?
That is slander. She doesn’t realize it, probably can’t spell it. She’s morphing individual guilt of certain judas priests who broke every vow (like all libs) they ever made onto tens of thousands of good priests and all Catholics, too.
It’s projecting collective guilt on a group: here Catholics. That’s what they did to sodomites for about 5,000 years.
Rosie, like all liberals, can do nothing but repeat lies and insults and tear away at institutions that won’t sanctify their personal perversions, or give them free lunch/something for nothing. She never did anything positive or built anything.
Her claim to fame was playing an overweight Mrs. Flintstone (or was it Mrs. Rubble?) in a crappy movie and shooting rubber bands while she schmoozed with other morally destitute Hollywood air heads on morning TV. The sad part is similarly terminally ignorant people watch that crap. It sells soap to the important, powerful people of America who sit at home mornings watching morons flap their gums thinking it’s edifying.
She’d have a lot more credibility if she had played Marie Curie or a rotund Gypsie Rose Lee.
Where are she and all liberals headed when they settle at room temperature?
Oh yeah! The gays deserve all the crap they get. They are so freaking special it makes me puke.
Daniel commented:
Wow. Just – wow.
Imagine. Say, didn’t she say something about steel catching fire (re: 911 Twin Towers)?
Get a clue, Rosie. We are on to you.
Rock commented:
So Rosie where was your outrage with Roman Polanski was arrested for forcing himself on a teenager, or do the rules not apply when degenerate Hollywood scum cross the line. Oh I forgot one of your classy co-host noted it was not rape rape, geez you and your type are a bunch of sick puppies.
Bo Vossey commented:
Excuse me, but does anyone watch her show? What are her ratings? Is this worth spending energy on?
sliderblaze commented:
aaaaaaaaaand her face looks like a balloon that got to close to heat on the one side…
Mrgoodwench commented:
I’d like to hear this slob’s views on
NAMBLA
FREE THE ND 88 commented:
http://www.CatholicLeague.org “Gay Cover-Up Must End”
sliderblaze commented:
hmmm… wow, a “smarter than you” liberal cant tell the diff. between analyzing as opposed to observation… of course it’s not about weight… thats not the analysis, thats the observation…do you comprehend?
Dagny commented:
I didn’t know she even had another TV Show until now. I bet if you asked her view of NAMBLA she would defend their right to do what they do.
I can’t imagine why anyone would watch her. Between her looks, her voice, and what comes out of her mouth, I don’t think I could last through one segment. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t make myself listen to the audio clip posted here.
Sojourner commented:
O’Donnell,true malcontent that she be, joins her fellow Obots in casting stones at the Church precisely because it is the Catholic Church, itself, that has stood without flinching for life & in doing so,stood opposed to the left’s magnum opus: ‘health reform.’ The line in the sand has been drawn between the statists and the Catholic Church.. like health reform, the Church must be subjugated by the State. Molestation has been chosen as the left’s tool to villify. (The Church has been sorely wrong, greviously wrong in covering up abuse by those that so much trust and faith is placed in).
Notice, however, the same malcontents that tear into the Church, don’t say a word about the public schools where abuse is at least 100 times worse than in the Catholic Church:
…http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/us/silently-shifting-teachers-in-sex-abuse-cases.html
…http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102100144.html
…http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/opinion/main1933687.shtml
See, the teacher’s/labor unions are ‘aligned’ with the Democratic Party’s agenda. Thus, child molestation/sexual abuse in the public schools? Ignored or under covered. O’Donnell, the msm, the NYT screeches like Hades about the Catholic ‘needle’ while it conveniently ignores or covers up for the haystack of abuse in the public school system.
Billy commented:
Rosie ODonnell lecturing on “sexual perversity”.
Obama lecturing on “fiscal responsibility”
Nancy Pelosi lecturing on “culture of corruption”
If they ran a University everyone would walk away with a BS degree.
Sojourner commented:
re:#34
links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/us/silently-shifting-teachers-in-sex-abuse-cases.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102100144.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/opinion/main1933687.shtml
BigJ commented:
I bet both of her viewers loved it.
Chris Vehr commented:
…as if she would ever say anything nice about the Catholic Church.
Andreas K. commented:
And Rosie is really the dumbest woman on this planet. She even beats Claudia Roth of the German Green party, and that is an impressive feat.
Don Guillermo commented:
First Things represents the best intellects in the United States today. Ad hominem attacks on Rosie O’Donnell do a grave disservice to First Things’ reputation and to Fr. Neuhaus’ legacy. Obviously, she has miss-characterized and slandered the Church in an objectively stupid and malicious manner. Isn’t it enough to say so without resorting to schoolyard cruelties?
BigAlSouth commented:
Religious commentary about the Catholic Church from a bitter old dyke. Move along.
Militant Conservative commented:
Kinda like the people in the Obama regime.
J commented:
Our culture seems to have evolved into a place where we put severely damaged, mentally unbalanced people on tv as a viewer sport. Sort of like the old romans with the gladiators. The difference being at least the gladiators were well matched. Have we no pity, in our society, for someone so clearly damaged and suffering?
Mrs. X commented:
Well, I do suppose Rosie has some authority on sexual perversity being a lesbian.
However, she chooses to remain ignorant of the RCC.
Who gives this loon a “show” and what loons are listening?
ProLifer commented:
Proud to be Catholic
http://www.4marks.com/articles/details.html?article_id=2690
Roger commented:
Communist knew their enemy was and is the Catholic Church. Liberals also know that their enemy is also the Catholic Church. This is a planned attack on the unwavering church that stands firm on faith. Just like what they are doing to the Tea Party has being terrorist, they paint with a very broad brush that all priests are pedophiles. I trust my children with my best friend who’s a priest more than dropping them off at one of Rosie’s big Hollywood parties.
Roger commented:
Maybe if the 0.02% of the priests that were child molesters knew how to sing or direct some movies, Hollywood would be more tolerant.
Nahanni commented:
I am not surprised by this.
Rosie’s comments sound just like the comments Jim Jones made about Christianity. Coincidence? No. It is standard Marxist/Maoist/Fascist dogma to attempt to destroy the belief in G_d in order to create a “religion of state” where the regime is the church and the dictator is their god.
Richard Fernandez has a very good post about this. The following are some snippets from the post, go over and read the whole thing.
A Reason To Believe
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/04/02/a-reason-to-believe/
The history of secularization can be understood not as a replacement of belief by reason, but an exchange of one belief for another. The traditional monotheisms were hustled out of the way so that they could sell Lenin in the place left vacant by Jesus. Perhaps no other century has seen more god-men than the 20th. Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Saparmurat Niyazov, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il-Sung, Ayatollah Khomeini, Sukarno, and Kim Jong-Il promoted a cult of personality. And there’s a reason for that. The dictators could only sell the box of matches with their likeness on the cover if they could darken the sun of faith. “During the peak of their regimes, these leaders were presented as god-like and infallible. Their portraits were hung in homes and public buildings, with artists and poets legally required to produce only works that glorified the leader.” Maybe Chesterton was right when he predicted that “the first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.”
~snip~
So why do smart people believe in dumb things? The author Scott Peck claimed that intelligence was no defense against foolishness, especially where belief was concerned. The intelligent were perhaps even more vulnerable than the simple precisely because they believed themselves to be immune when in fact they were not. All a cult leader had to do was flash his neon sign in the middle of a spiritual night and the vainglorious moths would come in their thousands, beating their wings against the electrified screen. If you built it, they would come. And whether the goals of the belief joint were Helter-Skelter, alien abduction or the Workers Paradise, these temples of the night would do a land-office business and all be built in the same way. All of them would have:
1. A charismatic leader demanding total authority at their center. From him would radiate authority through an elect group of followers. This is inevitable since power does not spring from the institution, but rather from the personal divinity of the god at its center.
2. Controlling techniques harnessing shame, guilt and peer pressure to bring dissidents to heel. Within a cult are only hymns of praise and condemnations of the wicked. Deviation from dogma would be treated as a moral failing; sin or blasphemy against a sacred leader and his goals.
3. Self-isolation from the world. Cults constitute little universes unto themselves; closed hermetic societies, where the “us” faces out against the “them”.
4. Extremist or fanatical behavior. In a cult excess is normal. Activity is frenzied, every emotion is at the highest pitch. People act as if possessed because time is short. The long awaited moment is at hand.
5. Secrecy and deception. Routine documents are concealed. Inquiries are treated with suspicion. Associations, personal histories, financial records, decisions — all go behind a firewall. Nothing is transparent.
But even here, I think, Chesterton points the way. The key defense against fanaticism is to open our eyes to the “wild and wasted” virtues of the world. It is to laugh, not in the cynical and cruel way of what passes for modern comedy, but with the clean humor of a child. It is to accept the sacredness of the ordinary; to credit the possibility that ordinary moms and dads can be wiser than a political leader who is “a sort of god”.
Magnum commented:
“I’m saying that to support an organization where at the top of the infrastructure, are people willing to ignore the mass child abuse and torture and sexual molestation of its own constituents.”
Is she talking about Obama supporters?
Nahanni commented:
Magnum,
If you want to see something creepy take a look at this…
Rosie’s Daughter — Child Soldier?
http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/26/rosies-daughter-child-soldier/40
That kid has the 1,000 yard stare down pat. It makes me wonder what other creepy things she has been doing to those kids.
averagemelon commented:
Rosie is upholding the doctrine of all leftists…there is no God, therefore, I am God. What I say and think are right and the rest of you are idiots or worse. Groups that still think there is a God are to be ripped apart. Period.
Mankind is seriously flawed, Rosie. Even in the Catholic church. Look for the beam in your own eye first.
anon commented:
Nope, Catholicism is a completely different denomination than Jim Jones’ church. Sorry, kiddo.
Trish commented:
What does this make the American Teachers Union then??? There are more reported child abuse (sexual and non) in American schools by American teachers, than there are by all the clergy all over the world.
Neither child abuse record is acceptable, but this woman is such a moron it is no longer funny! If she is serious, then let’s disband teachers unions that protect the offending teachers with OUR tax dollars!
Spike commented:
Lets just make sure we keep the piglet tramp
(Rosie) away from little Girls.
aprilnovember811 commented:
No Rosie, You and the followers of Hussein are the Jonestown Cult.
bg commented:
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Sojourner #34 & #36
thank you for the public school sex-abuse links..
can’t wait to see what Jennings produces in 10 or so years, that’s
if everyone isn’t attending an Obama Madrassa by then.. /sarc/
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bg commented:
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hey Rosie & O
this ones for you..
btw, how’s UN ambassador George doin’?? /sarc/
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Donna Fallis commented:
What’s truly scary is that there were people that allowed this lunatic to adopt children. I’m not catholic, and I know that there are some bad men in all walks of life, or at least some good people that do truly bad things…but I do have to ask, “how many priest are there in the world?” One does not make all of them bad.
thomas mc donnell commented:
when is rosie o’donnell going to acknowledge that the sexual abuse problem in the catholic church is not a catholic problem, but primarily a homosexual problem. the catholic church’s positon on homosexuality is that it is a sin. it was liberals like rosie, that in the 1960′s, allowed homosexuals to enter the priesthood under false pretenses. these people were never legitimite priests. you can’t be a practicing homosexual and be a catholic in good standing never mind a priest. these people entered the priesthood not to administer the religion to the faithful but to use the priesthood as a cover for their criminal activity. and you can thank people like rosie o’donnell for making it happen. prior to the vatican council II they wouldn’t let you be a priest if they knew you were a homosexual.