Yes Joe...I do feel repulsed (that you brand anger) when anyone abuses innocent children or when those in authority do not intervene when they know it is happening ....and abuse them again by hiding the guilty. It is even more repulsiv, as noted in the thread title, when their leaders then publically lobby to limit the long fought rights of equality for those looked down on by societies...all because they fear that one of their churches may can't discriminate against a homosexual may want a job cutting their grass. Yes, it pisses me off.

"And then you come up with this cockamamie horseshit statement that you think I see child molestation victims as "the enemy."

Reread your posts Joe, you are fairly proficient at spreading the stuff. On the one hand you go on about your christia-compassion side and on the other whining and complaing about big costs from cases fairly won by those abused...sure seems like an enemy (as I defined it in my earlier post) to me. If you wish to recoup the costs for your folks, go after the Vatican....they can sell some of the properties and artworks....what the fuck does a Christian church need with millions or more dollars of artwork anyway....when many world peoples, many RCs have hunger and live in poverty.

Some were validly won in courts, some were settled, because the RC church realized they did not have good legal cases, some amounts were given to punish the RC church for a lack of acction.