All hail my hero James
Did I ever tell you I went to high school with his daughter Ann?
Posted on 12/11/2005 5:55:09 AM PST by SJackson
*grin*
I have read at least two stories about finds on private property in Britain where the state is considered the lawful owner. In one case, a man found a cache of Roman coins in his own backyard.
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Don't blame the leftists for THIS. Treasures trove have ALWAYS been the property of the Crown. Logic being: when William the Conquerer showed up many of the defeated old Anglo Saxon nobility buried their treasures. If eventually found they were deemed to have been attempts to withhold from the Crown that which was the Crown's already by right of conquest.
They only changed the law in 1992. But it was the law for almost 1000 years.
No catholic scenario here>>
I beg your pardon? Catholic does not equal homosexual pedophile. Kindly acknowledge that fact at once.
1. Send in the CLONES!
2. Bison -- the other white meat.
All hail my hero James
Did I ever tell you I went to high school with his daughter Ann?
I'm sure it is; but that's completely beside the point. The Catholic Church is a legitimate undertaking, but unfortunately it (and other institutions like it) has been infiltrated by individuals whose motivations are less pure than those of the organization they work for. In today's climate, any situation where you have a young boy and an older man, not related, going out into the wilderness together, is one with a great potential for trouble.
"I beg your pardon? Catholic does not equal homosexual pedophile. Kindly acknowledge that fact at once."
By Catholic scenario I meant that if my church had a problem with someone working with kids, we wouldn't work to cover it up and we wouldn't let that individual continue to work with children. You can't deny that the Catholic church worked very hard to cover up pedophiles and didn't do what it could to get rid of some of them. A lot of kids were harmed because of that laxity.
That potential always exists, and not only in same sex or child-adult situations. I've known people who've done great good working with children in similar situations. And, unfortunately in a way, they're very cognizent of the risks. A hug being misinterprited for example. Myself, abuse wouldn't pop into my mind in a situation like this. I realize you weren't making that suggestion, simply pointing out the ever present danger.
As well as programs involving both same and opposite sex teens and young adults as well.
To call it a "Catholic" problem is naked bigotry. I see that you do not withdraw your statement.
Smooth talking, maybe, but like most smooth talkers, underneath, a liar.
Calm down. Which major church has had a major scandal about covering up sex abuse in the last few years? It isn't the baptists. It wasn't the methodists. I'm not in anyway putting judgement on those of Catholic faith, i'm just using what happened as an example of how I would not want my church to respond to a similar problem involving adults and children.
Your second sentence is contradicted by the third.
The Catholic Church does indeed have a pedophilia problem... statistically to exactly the same extent as every other church.
As for adult homosexuality, that's a different story. Gay misbehavior among Catholic priests is what we get for not having pastors run off with the wives of their parishoners. Which never, ever happens in other churches. Okay, *hardly* ever. /sarc.
Nevertheless by calling it a "catholic" problem you reveal what is clearly an unspoken glee at the travails of my church, and I don't appreciate it.
I look at it a ruling power v. private ownership issue. My larger point is that we are approaching a similar kind of mentality here. CETA and the ESA and a slew of other international agreements as well as domestic regulations at all levels are steadily eroding private ownership and land rights at all levels. I found the admonitions to alert authorities of whatever one finds more than a little disconcerting.
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I take great exception to your remark, Sir. I'm a single Dad who sponsors a monthly Firearms orientation and practical application class to youth in my town. I provide the arms, ammo, hearing protection and pay the range fees. I am cognizant of evil people in this society how ever blanket statements such as yours are, in the least, despicable. I was strongly advised to pen this on the advice and behalf of my Daughter.
Good Day, Sir, and Merry Christmas.
You're right; we should be more trusting. It's still the Age of Aquarius, if I'm not mistaken.
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