tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post3512215053685938771..comments2023-07-12T06:26:17.735-02:00Comments on Motherhood Deleted: Wake Up Little Suzie and Smell the InequalityRobinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-73920940358476660822010-03-25T13:18:29.612-02:002010-03-25T13:18:29.612-02:00It's a case of "The Emperor's New Clo...It's a case of "The Emperor's New Clothes." Very few people have the nerve to go against the mythology of both the church and adoption to note that the emperor is naked.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-34758869299552399122010-03-25T12:55:26.078-02:002010-03-25T12:55:26.078-02:00The Catholic Church, like all institutions, either...The Catholic Church, like all institutions, either formal brick and mortar or ideological, are always more important than the people they supposedly serve. The institution must be protecteod at all cost because they are so fragile and weak that the least wil-of-the-wisp can blow them over and destroy them. It's "amusing" to watch<br /> the CC commit suicide to keep itself "safe" from scrutiny and accountability. Just like adoption. Really. Come on. If both are so weak, then don't deserve to be propped up and propagated. I'd think that if the Church would just own up, kick out the pedos and take on full responsibility for its cover-ups people might have some respect for it.Same for adoption. Crimes and unethical behavior is bad enough, but covering it up is worse. That's what makes people mad.Marley Greinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15184124024369071862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-15829814678372239072010-03-22T10:20:42.756-02:002010-03-22T10:20:42.756-02:00I accidentally hit "reject" rather than ...I accidentally hit "reject" rather than "approve" on this comment from Maryanne. My apologies and here is her comment;p<br /><br />maryanne has left a new comment on your post "Wake Up Little Suzie and Smell the Inequality": <br /><br />The Church's response to the pedophile scandals has not been applauded by the victims, as is chronicled by groups like SNAP, a survivor's group, or Voice of the Faihtful, an international organization advocating for accountability and honesty in the Church hierarchy. I am a member of VOTF and have read quite a bit about the pedophile problem and the Church's lame response.<br /><br />So no, sexual abuse survivors have not really gotten any more from the Pope and Cardinals than we did as unwed mothers.<br /><br />I once spoke to an activist priest abuse survivor and he immediately got it that the same secrets, lies, and cover-ups surround adoption in the Catholic Church as those that surround sexual abuse. It is not a contest, we were all victims of a rotten system that has not really been made accountable in the higher administrative realms for either kind of abuse.for Maryannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-76453812958078663152010-03-20T14:31:01.191-02:002010-03-20T14:31:01.191-02:00It is interesting to me, too, that the priests hav...It is interesting to me, too, that the priests have come under the gun, but so far some of the worst perps of all, the nuns, have skated. How many childhoods and young motherhoods were scarred by the brides of christ's cruelty, and they were the ones in charge of the trapped young mothers in the homes! These terrorists need to be exposed as well, in my thinking!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088288948654864117noreply@blogger.com