Mike, the fallible people who created the harsh conditions at Tuam (which closed in 1961 and was at its worst in the 1940s)....they're dead, or at least most of them are. The ones still living were too young at the time to have much say-so. If they were alive, then I'd say that they should be prosecuted if it can be proved that they committed crimes. I have never said that "sincerely held faith" is any excuse for criminal behavior, and it would be wrong for you or anybody to imply that I would say such a thing. If anything, that would add to the culpability of the miscreant, because it would make him/her also a hypocrite. But 1961 was a long, long time ago (53 years, to be exact) - and so far, there has been no attempt to collect the evidence needed to get an accurate view of what truly happened at Tuam.

Go ahead. Prosecute those dead people and convict them, and then dance on their graves or whatever else it is you want to do.

-Joe Offer-