Re: Re: Poor Pope’s Service to Rabid Capitalism
On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote:
As one who has sued the RC church and other “faith based”
insitutions before - and will never willfully do so again - I can
say that no plaintiff’s lawyer in their right mind will do so
except in the most egregious of cases {i.e., priest child
molestation cases], as they tend to be very vigorous litigators,
have numerous exemptions from liability [in California, for
instance, they are exempt from statutory employment discrimination
laws], and Judges give them a lot of deference.
You’re contradicting your earlier point then. While JP II was far too
anti-communist for my taste, he did criticize capitalism, capital
punishment, and imperial war - and got away with it. Ratso doesn’t
have to carry George Bush’s water if he doesn’t want to.
Doug