Irish Government Votes to Cover Up Mass Graves and Human Trafficking

[Cheetodust]

For some reason, I'm reminded of Ebenezer Scrooge rhetorically asking the charity-workers, "Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?", when they say that the poor are not being adequately treated.

I mean even if you do hold the state accountable, which I very much do, the very best this argument implies is that "well, if you leave a bunch of unmarried mothers in the care of the church of course they'll sell their babies to American, nobody to blame but yourself."

 

[Silvanus]

I mean even if you do hold the state accountable, which I very much do, the very best this argument implies is that "well, if you leave a bunch of unmarried mothers in the care of the church of course they'll sell their babies to American, nobody to blame but yourself."

I suppose I agree that we really should have learned not to trust the Catholic Church after all this time.

 

[Iron]

Ceann Comhairle - Is that how you spell Sean Connery in Gaelic?

 

[happyninja42]

Ceann Comhairle - Is that how you spell Sean Connery in Gaelic?

No, that would be spelled Bob Thompson.

 

[Gordon_4]

What you mean to say is the church built you schools and hospitals that otherwise didn't exist, the politicians used shallow appeals to theocracy to gain power, and then dumped their problems onto the Church and acted as though that was supporting the Church, and then scapegoated religion wherever bad things were found to happen.

It’s hardly scapegoating if the bad things did in fact occur. And the treatment women got in a Magdalene Laundry was frankly appalling. Mind the political parties of Ireland’s government are hardly innocent since they allowed the abuses to occur at all. So basically no one is clean in this affair whatsoever.

Ceann Comhairle - Is that how you spell Sean Connery in Gaelic?

I was thinking The Great Cornholio personally.