You know, come to think of it, I suppose I shouldn't expect better treatment. The same thing happens to peace activists and civil rights activists and whoever dares to speak out. Many of us Americans spoke out against the first war in Iraq, and we campaigned against the School of the Americas and American imperialism in Latin America, and we were against the second war in Iraq from the beginning. The "Johnny Come Lately" outsiders later lumped us together with all Americans and condemned us as warmongering American imperialists - even though we opposed American imperialism long before the outsiders knew about it.

I was concerned about child abuse and molestation in the 1970s. I was employed by the Catholic Church, and I lost my job in 2005 because I was outspoken in opposition to things in the Church that I thought were wrong.

And if you look at a lot of posts in this thread, you'd think I was a major supporter for the cause of child molestation, simply because I'm looking for a truthful, unbiased, balanced, realistic, unhysterical assessment of the problem.

Bullshit.

Absolute, profound bullshit.

We're all seeking the same truth here - please, let's not forget that.

-Joe Offer, a proud member of the "Loyal Opposition" of the Catholic Church-