Posted on 04/03/2011 4:13:35 AM PDT by sopwith
Bettencourt, the House majority leader, Friday defended his Facebook page posting that calls Catholic Bishop John McCormack, "a pedophile pimp."
Bettencourt, R-Salem, posted the statement late Thursday after McCormack spoke against budget cuts at a State House rally. McCormack is the leader of New Hampshire's 290,000 Catholics. He told a crowd estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 people that the budget plan Republicans passed neglects society's obligation to care for the poor and vulnerable.
On his Facebook page, Bettencourt attacked McCormack not for what he told the crowd, but for his role in the Archdiocese of Boston's child sex abuse scandals of past years.
"Would the bishop like to discuss his history of protecting the 'vulnerable?' This man is a pedophile pimp who should have been led way from the State House in handcuffs with a raincoat over his head in disgrace. He has absolutely no moral authority to lecture anyone."
And where are all the cries from the left about how such an event would "violate the wall of separation between church and state?" Oh wait, the "bishop" is trolling for something the left supports, so that makes it OK.
One might think that but one would be wrong.
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