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<H1>Clash between politics, religion in N.H.</H1></FONT></DIV>
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John Moroney) - A war of words stemming from a protest at the New Hampshire
State House Thursday. A House majority leader is standing behind his Facebook
comments in which he called Bishop John McCormack a "pedophile pimp".
<BR><BR>New Hampshire House Majority Leader DJ Bettencourt is taking a lot of
heat in the wake of Thursday's big State House rally. He called the Bishop of
Manchester a pedophile pimp for statements the Catholic leader at the rally made
about the poor and vulnerable. <BR><BR>A Catholic, Bettencourt questioned Bishop
McCormack's commitment to vulnerable children while working for Cardinal Bernard
Law during the clergy's abuse crisis. <BR><BR>On his Facebook page - the
Republican Representative wrote: "This man is a pedophile pimp who should have
been led away from the State House in handcuffs with a rain coat over his head
in disgrace. He has absolutely no moral credibility to lecture anyone."
<BR><BR>At the rally in New Hampshire, Bishop McCormack told the crowd and NECN
the state needs to protect people. <BR><BR>The diocese
responded to the majority leader's comments by saying, in part, "That statement
is clearly false, defamatory, and detracts from the real issue. Bishop
McCormack's message to the people of New Hampshire yesterday was the simple
message of the Gospels. Garth Corriveau is a Catholic, a Democrat and alderman
from Manchester who posted his own message on Facebook about the controversy.
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Comment by SMPTURLISH:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Bishop John McCormack's role in enabling, facilitating and covering up for
the sexual abuse of untold numbers of innocent children in the Archdiocese of
Boston, Massachusetts is a matter of record. He, along with Cardinal Bernard Law
and a number of his fellows in the archdiocese have never been truly accountable
or transparent about their involvement. State authorities should have prosecuted
these individuals instead of cutting deals with them to avoid prosecution. To
that extent, along with church hierarchy, they have failed the children of their
states. Having failed to follow the words of Jesus Christ to protect children in
the first place, church leadership cannot and should not be trusted to do the
morally right thing now. Just look at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia where too
many people trusted Cardinal Justin Rigali to do the right thing after the 2005
Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on the Archdiocese was released only to learn
with the 2011 Grand Jury Report that very little of substance had actually been
done in the intervening six years. <A
href="http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/Philadelphia_Catholic_Protestors_040111">http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/Philadelphia_Catholic_Protestors_040111</A></DIV>
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<DIV>All statutes of limitation, criminal and civil, must be removed regarding
the sexual abuse of children - BY ANYONE. And there needs to be a civil window
of at least two years to bring forward previously time barred cases of childhood
sexual abuse - BY ANYONE. We did it in DELAWARE and we are attempting to do it
in PENNSYLVANIA with the CHILD VICTIMS HOUSE BILLS 832 </DIV>
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