Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.

• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they don’t like being called that they could always… stop raping children.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not defending the church in any way, merely pointing out that they are a litigious organisation and it’s probably easier to take legal action than to stop raping children.

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• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They could try to get cease and desist all they want, there’s a constitutional right in most countries that protects such speech.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By “most countries” I’m pretty sure you mean “the United States”, and your constitutional right does not protect you from civil slander or libel cases.

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    • femtech@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most countries don’t have a “the church”

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If there’s “a” church then there’s “the” church.

        It doesn’t need to be an international organisation headquartered in the vatican city. It could be equivalent to your local knitting club. If you say mean things about an organisation you can expect them to take legal action to stop you.

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