Ridiculous Double Standard (Pope Benedict)

If you have been following the news, then you are aware of the newest scandal. If you have been living under a rock.. watch this video...



Here is a hypothetical example..

In a school system somewhere in the United States a teacher was found molesting several children. The Principal of the school became aware of the situation; however, instead of going to the authorities, it was decided that the best course of action would be to relocate the teacher to a different school within the district. This was done out the fear of the bad press the school would have gotten. The teacher, while knowing his actions were wrong, could not resist temptation, and was found molesting more children. Eventually the story leaked; stories began to come out of the disgusting crime, along with the principal's covering up of it.

The purpose of this hypothetical example is to make an obvious point -- that point being the massive double standard (double standard on multiple fronts). If such a scenario was to happen in a school district, obviously the authorities would be throwing the book at both the pedophile and those that aided in his cover-up. The principal was both an assessor to child-molestation after-the-fact (could be argued before-the-fact as well), and obstruction of justice.

It is, as far as I know, all rumor that the Pope was responsible for covering this up. However such rumors appear to be well-grounded and perhaps a good amount of circumstantial evidence could be presented in  court that could potentially lead to a conviction. In other words, if you are aware of a crime within your organization (being a superior or not), that crime being the sexual-abuse of around 200 children -- children that so happen to be blind, and you do nothing, you have committed a crime of omission. If you not only are aware, but take actions to cover it up, you are an assessor after-the-fact. If it has been found that the after the relocation -- the pedophile molested more children -- it could be argued that the people aware of the situation are assessors before-the-fact (the recidivism rate of child-molestation is very well known, probably even more-so within the Catholic church, especially among those that repeatedly cover it up).

The Pope should ask himself if Jesus would live like a king and protect child-molesters. If the Catholic church wanted to avoid bad press, and deal these people internally, they should have brought stoning back (stoning justified by the Bible in such cases in more ways than one). Wearing a condom is viewed as being a horrible sin -- one which is greater than the preventable deaths of millions.. but molesting children is viewed as a minor offense, one which the greatest fear of all is the bad-press caused by it. 

This Pope is responsible for the genocide caused by the spread of AIDS-ignorance -- which is a crime for obvious reasons (willful-ignorance is not a defense). It is like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater because you believe in spontaneous human combustion. With this new scandal, this guy should at-least be thrown into prison to rot, he is responsible for amounts of death comparable to Hitler (Hitler thought he was doing the right thing as well). If such actions were committed by anyone other than the Pope, it would be no doubt as to whether they would get thrown into prison. What a ridiculous double standard.