Lawyers cash in on the Priest abuse scandal? Nah

I, like most human beings, was shocked and appalled at the priest abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.  While I know pedophilia is in no way related exclusively to the Church, celibacy, or any such thing, I also know that the unique structure of the Church, and the tendency of bureaucratic CYA as a matter of policy, made the Church a lightening rod for attention.  This was the Catholic Church after all.  And it did appear that the cover up was more than just a few rogue bishops.  It showed an ineptitude and structural rot that still doesn’t appear to have been properly addressed, IMHO.

Nonetheless, it isn’t difficult to see that much of the ire and outrage that was just and good quickly got swallowed up by people who were more interested in advancing agendas, building upon anti-Catholic bigotry, or just making a buck.  After all, it isn’t like abuse only happens in the Catholic Church, despite Hollywood and Media portrayals. Just look at the public education systems.

Many ask why, if the school system is a greater source of sexual abuse, we’ve not heard any more about it than we have.  Several reasons.  Like Bill Maher said, when a hot, buxom blond makes it with a fourteen year old, that’s not rape.  That’s luck.  I wonder if he thinks the same about a handsome priest and a fourteen year old?  Plus, of course, the education system is heavily into advancing progressive values, a task shared by the media that is never quick to torpedo its allies in the cause.

But most of all, because lawyers haven’t found a way to cash in on the huge treasure chests of public school systems yet.  The Catholic Church was a giant trove just waiting to be plundered.  Not so the public school systems.  But if there should be a way to cash in, expect lawyers at least to be leading the charge against yet one more evil and vile institution.  Just like all the other evil and vial institutions that lawsuits expose.