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To: chatham
There is a time and a place for everything. During Mass is not the time and in the presence of the Holy Eucharist is not the place. Let Steve Lynch take his problems to Boston Common or to the Boston Globe if he feels a need for calling attention to himself. If he wants to call attention to himself for revenge, he should talk to the police department and the prosecutors. If he wants to call attention to himself for money, lawyers exist who will be happy to attempt to satisfy both goals.

The practice of exhibitionism, disrupting the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, is no more justified for Mr. Lynch than it is for abortion lovers, gay activists, dog "lovers", witches, NOW gang witches (sp.?), Sandinistas, or any other pathological moron who happens to hate the Church. Nor, before the law, ought such disruption be anyone's right in the churches of other faiths or their temples or synagogues. If a witches' coven is meeting down the street in my neighborhood in a neighbor's living room, I have no business entering to disrupt their fantasies. Whether or not Mr. Lynch has some legitimate grievance is not the only issue in the wide, wide world. His cause becomes no more just and becomes no more truthful for the fact that he is willing to disrupt the worship of God in a place reserved for that worship. Any little old lady in that Church saying her rosary has infinitely more right to say her rosary there or sing Kumbaya, for that matter, than Mr. Lynch has to disruot her worshipo by his brazen antics.

Enough with professional victimhood, already. Assuming that Lynch was, in fact, sodomized by a priest (we can hardly know), that does not relieve Lynch of a moral obligation to respect the right of worshippers to attend Mass without unwanted interruptions by his victimhood.

43 posted on 03/04/2002 6:22:13 AM PST by BlackElk
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To: BlackElk
From what I saw of his remarks, at church, on TV, it wasn,t the end on the world for anybody, I certainly don't feel he should have been arrested.

Perhaps many Catholics should have said more over the years and perhaps the Archdiocese of Boston wouldn't be about to collapse.

If Law was a leader and a man of courage he should have stopped these abusive clerics in their tracks years ago and he wouldn't have to suffer Mr Lynch's remarks which may be true.

Lynch's life may have been destroyed by some cleric,there is certainly adequate evidence of abuse.

By the way do we have undercover police at all masses in all dioceses?

97 posted on 03/04/2002 12:46:57 PM PST by chatham
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