Comments by user: september12009
Posted on: The law and religion
(Suggest removal) 1/18/10 at 3:41 p.m.
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The way the law was written was to permit religion to operate in the country provided they abide by the law. The Catholic church has has many laws on its books which are outside our laws and many laws dealing with matters which are the jurisdiction of the state or country. There will not be any justice for victims and the American people until the Church firstly complies with the law rather than lobby to change them to suit their cover up needs.
Their first obligation is to comply with the law of the land. They get around this by stating that church law forbids this or that. That is not the point - the point is the church has a requirement to abide by the law first and foremost as that is the basic requirement or condition of its right to operate in a country. Make them comply with the law by removing everything from Church law which deals with matters of the State - then they are in compliance and then they should be permitted the freedom to operate in the country - until then they are just common criminals in breach of the Constitution.