The Republicans on the Orange County Board of Supervisors have done it again – given safe harbor to a Catholic figure who covered up for molesters. You might recall that they tried to put Catholic Monsignor John Urell on a County Commission. Red-faced County blog editor Matt/Jubal Cunningham then started the “Urell Amigos” – only to unwittingly reveal the names of molestation victims. Jubal ended up getting excoriated on the John and Ken Show.
Now, Gustavo Arellano, of the OC Weekly, has caught the BOS as they have once more got snuggly with a guy who covered up for molesters. Arellano found in a BOS addendum that this Tuesday’s BoS agenda currently lists Monsignor Lawrence Baird as giving the invocation at 9:30 in the morning.
Arellano reported that “Baird is a notorious figure in the Orange diocese’s sex-abuse scandal. As its longtime spokeshole, it was his job to deny any scandal to reporters and spin, spin, spin when confronted with reality. Most notoriously, he called Michael Harris, the former principal of Mater Dei and Santa Margarita high schools, an “icon to the priesthood” to reporters after Harris had quit the latter job in 1994 even though the Orange diocese already knew at that point that Harris–who was battling sex-abuse lawsuits–liked teenage boys.”
You may read the rest of Arellano’s post at this link.
What a joke our Supervisors are – but I am sure that Supervisor Bill Campbell was the instigator of this scandal, just as he was the one who tried to appoint Urell to that County Commission. And of course his pal is Jubal, who Campbell appointed to the County Parks and Recreation Commission. What a bunch of red-faced creeps!
Art, your link takes us to the wrong agenda – Jan 29, 2008. Cut and paste this:
http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/ClerkOfTheBoard/doc/rev-sup01132009.doc
David,
Thanks! Duly corrected…
When we as citizens discover that the religious organizations that are supposed to help and support us are truly only out to steal our money and rape our children while they continue to build their city of solid gold in Rome, we truly only have ourselves to blame.
We as citizens have known for DECADES that the Catholic church is full of child rapists. Yet we as citizens have done nothing to stop this.
I guess religious freedom is more important to us than the safety of our children?
If this were a secular organization, the government would come in and shut it down in 10 seconds. If it was discovered that, let’s say, Burger King employees were raping children, would we allow Burger King to serve the public any longer? No we would not. They would be out of business in 10 seconds. So should the Catholic church be handled in this manner.
When a religious organization becomes a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION, should we not force that organization to pay the price for their crimes???? SHould we not put them out of business????? And make no mistake, the Catholic church is a business. A corporation. A money-making scheme.
I simply can not believe that we as a society have ALLOWED the Catholic church to rape our collective children for decades and decades while continuing to give the Catholic church millions upon millions of dollars.
Mostly, that people still choose to support this ‘church’ renders me speechless, disgusted, and bereft of compassion for humankind.