G.O.P. Guardians of Predators
The Choice Between Prison and Excommunication
The cover up is worse than the crime?
As if the Jeffery Epstein Scandal wasn’t bad enough, the T***p administration has intervened to block a law requiring priests to report child abuse revealed in confessions.
We aren’t talking about priests as the offenders, although the Catholic Church has a long history of sexual abuse against minors.
We are talking about eight-year-old Madison or Brent telling the priest that their uncle was molesting them.
With the blocking of this law, the abuse is no longer “Duty to report.”
As with all the other #SavetheChildren bullshit that came out of QAnon, this is just more of the same. Abuse the children and cover it up.
This is legalizing soul-murdering and trauma.
For decades, Christian Nationalists fought the gubment over home schooling and a duty to report.
The result was thousands of kids being abused and traumatized by people who, not only should NOT be teaching home school…they should not be allowed to raise a Chia Pet.
The gubment should not be telling us how to home school our children. The gubment needs to mind its own business and stay out of ours while we teach the Gospel and beat the crap out of our kids.
Schools used to turn a blind eye to abuse. Children showed up to school with bruises and open wounds and no one ever bothered to ask, “What’s going on in the home?”
DAFUQ?
People ask why the populace doesn’t trust institutions. Why has civic dialogue devolved into glorifying bullying and abuse?
Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with a culture that not only abuses children…but goes OUT OF ITS WAY to cover up the abuse.
Look the other way, protect the perpetrators…and give ZERO thought to the emotional trauma inflicted on the children being abused.
The cherry on top is elevating these abused and traumatized people to positions of power where they act out their fractured psyches on the rest of us that have done our work.
We might not be the sane ones. Many of us were a part of these cycles of abuse. The difference is that we consciously chose to do the difficult work of Digging in the Dirt to heal from those traumas.
Yes, it is an industry. Not specific to the United States, but specific to our human culture in general. Untreated and traumatized people roaming the planet inflicting their wounds upon the rest of us.
Addicted to their booze, drugs and religions…while they mete out their insanity and the rest of us stand with our mouths agape and wonder WTF is happening.
We want to offer them a hand, a way out. But that path is hard. Seeing the speck in the other person’s eye is easier than the mote in our own.
It takes work, hard work.
The Christian Nationalists don’t see the “beam,” the “plank,” the “log” in their own eyes.
To do so would require self-reflection and, God forbid, “feeling pain.”
Numbing the pain is SO much easier. Covering up abuse is easier. Denying abuse is even easier.
The downside is…it keeps us from experiencing “love’s confusing joy.”
“If you want what visible reality can give,
you're an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you're not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you'll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love's confusing joy.” —Rumi