Court won't reconsider order to diocese to release sex abuse data

Connpost.com ^ | 07/07/2009 | By Daniel Tepfer

[Pope Pius XII]

HARTFORD -- Advocates for children who say they were sexually abused by priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport reacted with cautious optimism Monday to the state Supreme Court's refusal to reconsider its earlier ruling ordering the diocese to release hundreds of documents detailing decades of alleged abuse by priests.

The Supreme Court issued the brief decision without comment.

"We are inching closer to Connecticut citizens and Catholics fully learning the truth," said David Clohessy, director of the Chicago-based SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

[Pope Pius XII]

The left will stop nothing at silencing the Church.

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HARTFORD -- Advocates for children who say they were sexually abused by teachers in the National Education Association reacted with cautious optimism Monday to the state Supreme Court's refusal to reconsider its earlier ruling ordering the NEA to release hundreds of documents detailing decades of alleged abuse by teachers.

[Alex Murphy]

The left will stop nothing at silencing the Church.

The Conn. Supreme Court is trying to get the Archdiocese of Bridgeport to talk, not to shut up. It's the Catholics who want their Church to stay silent.

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[Celtman]

The left will stop nothing at silencing the Church.'

The left???  Freedom of religion does not give any church the right to hide criminal activity.  In fact, those within a church who actively conceal criminal activity are themselves breaking the law. 

In what way is this a "left" position? 

Don't have any statistics to back this up, but IMO conservatives are overwhelmingly opposed to child abuse, and in favor of punishing those who are guilty of these crimes.