@call634-5789.bsky.social:
Here’s where we are at. MAGAts think rape is just ducky if your victims are older than 8.
trump is a rapist.
WHY THE FUCK ISN’T HE IN PRISON RIGHT NOW?
@getmoresmarter.com:
Holy shit. They’re really doing it. They’re doing “actually pedophilia is good now.” The debasement of the American Right is complete.
It’s not just the right. Project2025 has heavy raping catholic church involvement and Canada’s Mark Carney (a catholic), head of the “liberal” party, invited Project2025’s headcheese Kevin Roberts to come propagandize his cabinet. Thankfully, outcry from Canadians was fierce and furious and the event cancelled, but, Herr Carney said he will continue Project2025ing with Mr. Misogynist Roberts – in secret.
@balkissoon.bsky.social:
This is horrifying. There’s a defense of abusive Catholic priests in here, don’t read if that might ruin your day
@erynwyld.bsky.social:
Looked it up. Donohue, the author here, is the president of the Catholic League, & also an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation. It has been his life’s mission to defend sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and he is using Kelly’s statements as a further justification in his argument.
How many kids has Mr. Donohue raped? In my experience, rape enablers, as with genocide enablers, are as evil as the rapists and those mass murdering innocents.
@cbarn.bsky.social:
Guys like him rail against “identity politics” but then demand (unearned) respect for Christians/Catholics as if they didn’t make a choice.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN by Bill Donohue, Nov 14, 2025, The Catholic League
Megyn Kelly is being bashed for saying that Jeffrey Epstein was “not a pedophile.”
Her critics are plainly ignorant, and their gripe is not with her—it’s with the American Academy of Pediatrics. It defines puberty as beginning at age ten for whites and Hispanics and nine for African Americans. A pedophile is a person who has sex with a prepubescent male or female, meaning someone ten or younger.
In reference to Epstein, Kelly rightly noted that “we have yet to see anybody come forward and say I was under 10, I was under 14.” She was also correct to say, “There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old.”NOT when it comes to rape or sex trafficking.
She was not justifying predators of any age, and indeed it is malicious to suggest she was. The context of her remarks was whether Epstein’s predatory behavior qualifies as pedophilia. Clearly it does not.FFS! How the hell do you know Mr. Donohue? Were you on Epstein’s island or in his mansions? NDAs (gag orders) are often forced on rape victims to ensure their silence, terrorize and terrify them, and their main reason – to let rapists keep raping. The files and tapes of the many kids Epstein trafficked, and to which clients (rapists), are being withheld and covered up to protect Epstein’s bestie – pedophile Trump, other rich kid raping billionaires, and his rape-friendly regime.
Trump’s Heart of Darkness, Warning: This story involves allegations of child abuse and rape by Charlie Angus / The Resistance, Nov 09, 2025
… According to the court filings, Trump knew Jane was only 13 years old. She and another 12-year-old named Maria were forced to perform sex acts on Epstein and Trump. Both girls were degraded and abused. The witness affidavit from Tiffany Doe stated that Maria went missing soon after this party.
Then, Trump had Jane Doe tied up on a bed where she was raped. Jane stated that when she begged him to stop, he slapped her across the face and said he could do whatever he liked.
Jane Doe said Trump warned her that he would have her and her family killed if she dared tell anyone. …
Why does this matter to the Catholic League?
For too long, the media and the chattering class have said that the Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal was due to “pedophile priests.” Wrong. The data clearly show that the vast majority of priestly victims were male (81 percent) and that 78 percent were postpubescent. Why is this important? Because it means the molesters were homosexuals.
When males have sex with males who are postpubsecent, that’s called homosexuality, not pedophilia.JFC! If it’s without consent, as it was in those endless raping catholic church rape scandals, it’s rape! Donohue, you are a vile douche fucking kid rape enabler, in my view, as evil as Epstein and Trump.
But the media ignored the data, thus avoiding the role that homosexual priests played. This allowed them to tag the offenders as “pedophiles.” The fact is only 3.8 percent of clergy sexual abuse victims were boys ten or younger.
[See my book, The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and the Causes, for the citations.]Yuk? Who would read fucking this other than pedophiles and rapists?
Epstein was a sexual monster. But the discussion is marred when false comments are made about his behavior. It is even worse when people like Megyn Kelly are falsely blamed for justifying it.
@themakeroftrouble.bsky.social:
Sweet fancy Moses this is revolting!!!!
@balkissoon.bsky.social:
Agree
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@whirringsoftly.bsky.social:
The Australian right wing media establishment (mostly Murdoch, but others) really went hard when George Pell was convicted for raping children.
@nelloinoz.bsky.social:
redflag.org.au/node/7133:
Have to disagree. He was very much supported by the right wing was my memory of it all
Pell’s guilty of many terrible crimes. That’s why right wingers defend him by Emma Norton, 14 April 2020, redflag.org.au
In the eyes of the law, cardinal George Pell is not guilty of the sexual abuse of two choir boys in Melbourne in the 1990s. Without significant new evidence, he never will be. But the cardinal is guilty of many other sins.
To those seeking justice for the systematic abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church, he is a symbol of the complicity of the church’s highest officers. To Australia’s conservative culture warriors, he is a key ally who must be defended, no matter how much doing so contradicts their apparent obsession with traditional sexual morality and punitive law-and-order politics.
Pell was the architect of the church’s infamous “Melbourne Response”, which spent millions more on lawyers than it did on compensation to the victims of child sex abuse. He admitted to a royal commission that the complaints laid against his close friend and serial paedophile Gerald Ridsdale were a “sad story”, but “not of much interest to me” at the time they were made. He acted as archbishop of the Sydney and Melbourne dioceses, both hives of child sexual abuse. He never reported fellow priests and consistently tried to minimise the payouts offered to their victims.
Accusations of child sexual abuse have followed him for decades, including two fresh allegations this year revealed in the ABC documentary Revelation.
He is an arch conservative, anti-abortionist and homophobe who campaigned vociferously against marriage equality. He has helped destroy the lives of vulnerable young people who had the misfortune of falling into the “care” of the Catholic Church, through its grand network of schools, homes and churches, often concentrated in the country’s poorest regions.
The sum of these abuses should be enough to condemn anyone to social exile, if not prison. But Pell enjoys the support of some of the most powerful people in Australia. His prison cell opened to the triumphant bleating of his right-wing friends and allies. A conservative columnist for the Australian, Paul Kelly, welcomed the conclusion of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Australian history”. Andrew Bolt, who has secured a lucrative and exclusive TV interview with Pell, solemnly told his Sky News listeners that the ABC had “with one voice persecuted him for years”, leading a “crusade to destroy him”. News Corp columnist and devout conservative Miranda Devine wrote, “a good priest, falsely accused and railroaded through a politically motivated investigation and an unfair trial, can walk free, in Holy Week”.
It is odd to hear right wingers like Devine condemn the “entire Victorian legal system” because it convicted someone of a crime. The right usually demands more convictions, harsher sentences, and tougher bail and parole conditions. But when the system – briefly – convicts one of their own, these right-wing pundits enter public fits of rage against the machine.
In reality, the legal system afforded Pell unusually generous treatment. First, he had access to the finest legal team in Australia. He entered the courtroom supported by Queen’s Counsel, several costly barristers and numerous solicitors. Although it’s doubtful Pell, essentially the Vatican’s treasurer, needed it, the Catholic Church advertised a fund to cover his legal costs and encouraged the faithful to donate.
Second, he could afford to fight his conviction all the way, launching four separate appeals in lower courts before being heard by the High Court. While the left should defend as precious the right to appeal a conviction, it’s a right that comes much more easily to senior figures in major ruling class institutions.
Finally, in a rare outcome, he was able to have the opinion of a jury overturned. The jury system is meant to be the democratic underpinning of Australian jurisprudence. The right to be judged by a jury of one’s peers was won in 17th century Britain by the lower classes and was eventually exported to the colonies. It replaced the Star Chamber system, in which the poor would be judged by their superiors, all members of the medieval king’s council.
Today, the jury may lend popular legitimacy to the legal system, but it is a luxury afforded very few. Most people convicted in criminal cases are allowed only a brief stint in front of a magistrate, not the right to be judged by their peers. It might be harder to send people to prison for crimes of poverty otherwise.
Pell’s original guilty verdict was reached by a panel of jurors who found the key witness testimony, that of Pell’s accuser, credible. The Catholic witnesses called by the defence, who claimed that boys could never be raped in the sacristy because they were busy after mass and archbishops were typically accompanied by other priests, were not enough to cause the jury to doubt to Pell’s guilt. Perhaps they had in mind the countless children molested in Catholic sacristies around the world, despite Catholic customs. The jury’s decision was later overturned by the High Court, essentially another jury, this time comprised of Pell’s class peers.How many of them fellow rapists?
Pell’s case brought together an obnoxious coterie of right-wing defenders. They populate a section of the media and the political class. Media outlets such as the Australian, Quadrant andSky News, along with reactionary politicians such as former prime minister Tony Abbott, have waged an unrelenting culture war aimed at dragging Australian politics to the right and strengthening the ideological support for capitalism’s power structures and inequalities. They all repeat the same paranoid fantasy, one which resonates with the far right globally: that the left has taken over the media, universities, politics and culture, stifles free speech and erases conservative opinion.
For this group of powerful, wealthy reactionaries, Pell was one of their own. Like Abbott in the Liberal Party, or Andrew Bolt in the corporate media, Pell was an ideological warrior to take the conservative Catholic Church even further to the right. From his positions of high influence in an enormous global cultural institution, he tried to turn back the tide of sexual liberalism. He was part of a band of well-paid reactionary commentators; as a churchman, he particularly focused campaigning against marriage equality, or any general social acceptance of homosexuality. “Homosexual activity is a much greater health hazard than smoking”, he declared in response to the suicide of young gay Catholics. So, unlike other accused child abusers, he gained immediate political solidarity from the law-and-order brigade.
These influential right-wing pundits have written feverish defences of Pell over the past few years. They attempted to smear and discredit the victim’s testimony, including through Andrew Bolt’s bizarre private detective work at St Patrick’s Cathedral, filmed on his phone. They softened up the public and at the very least helped pave the way to the High Court’s decision.
Australia’s highest and most respected court has spoken. George Pell is free, already delivering his Easter message to the faithful, asking “why is there so much evil and suffering” in the world. To begin answering his question we could start with the existence of the Catholic Church hierarchy, the appalling justice system and the right-wing culture warriors.
Justice and an end to suffering will not be found in courts designed to punish the poor and exonerate the rich. It will not be delivered by elite political appointees who serve themselves and their class. The rich and powerful will continue to protect the monsters in their midst. They always have and they always will.
@whirringsoftly.bsky.social:
That’s what I meant, I should been clearer. They went hard on supporting and trying to polish up what happened.
(Also he wasn’t acquitted it’s that the case was overturned on a very particular condition that a team of Vatican funded lawyers discovered)
Also for those at the back, Pell not only raped children but actively enabled others in the clergy to do so.
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