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