Catholic League Bashes Gustavo for Pedo-Priest Articles; Gustavo Responds!
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In other words, he's a pendejo who frequently trashes sex-abuse victims and their supporters, fumes about false outrages, and loves to blather. So it was about time Donohue came up to the plate and swung at me--and struck out.
Earlier this week, he sent out a missive to the media and the Catholic League's email list titled "Arellano's Dirty Hands," in which he called me a "rank hypocrite" because...um, I'm not sure. He says I have "learned to perfect" anti-Catholicism despite offering no examples. Parse through his statements enough, and his sore spot comes to light: I write too much about pedo-priests!
Donohue dismissed my nearly decade-long coverage of the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal as "Father Murphy's alleged groping in the 1950s." Never mind that I've never written about a Father Murphy (I have written about Pat Murphy, the Mater Dei High administrator who let boys' basketball coach Gary McKnight keep his job even though McKnight let a child-abuser who happened to be his former assistant coach back on campus last decade despite Murphy telling McKnight not to. Shadows of Penn St.'s own pedo-scandal? You know it!); that the Diocese of Orange has had its priests arrested for child molestation as recently as two years ago; and that the men who protected bona fide pedophile priests (shall I read to you accounts of the triple-penetrations that Eleuterio Ramos subjected his victims to, Billy Boy?) continue to operate in Orange instead of a jail cell--that's you, John Urell!
And in a laughable lack of research that shows he
probably got the idea for his press release from Orange Bishop Tod D.
Brown, Donohue actually wrote that I have "never published a piece on
the sexual abuse of minors by the clergy of any other religion. Nor has
he written about the epidemic of sexual abuse in the public schools."
HA! Other religions? I guess Bill doesn't consider Calvary Chapel a religion, as we've been on that beat for a while now. Sex-abuse in schools? So the disabled girl who got molested by a teacher's aide at Saddleback High, a molestation hushed up by school officials who had previously hushed up sex assaults on a school campus, stories ignored by the lamestream media until we exposed them, doesn't count? Or the other stories my colleagues have covered on tips I gave them? Laughable.
HA! Other religions? I guess Bill doesn't consider Calvary Chapel a religion, as we've been on that beat for a while now. Sex-abuse in schools? So the disabled girl who got molested by a teacher's aide at Saddleback High, a molestation hushed up by school officials who had previously hushed up sex assaults on a school campus, stories ignored by the lamestream media until we exposed them, doesn't count? Or the other stories my colleagues have covered on tips I gave them? Laughable.
Best of all, Donohue tries to paint me as a hypocrite on
covering sex-abuse scandals because my bosses at Village Voice Media
run Backpage.com,
where consenting adults, um, can hang out. Opponents have tried to
depict us as encouraging child abuse through our classifieds--never mind
that we have long-established relationships with local police and the
FBI that allow predators to be identified and apprehended, and underage
victims to be rescued. Our company has also run a year-long series on sex trafficking that seeks to demolish myths and identify the extent and nature of the problem--not the least
of which is that it appears half the victims are boys.
All
that's not good enough for Donohue. Instead, he smugly writes about me:
"He's simply not man enough to turn his guns on the purveyors of human
slavery, namely his boss."
Damn straight I go against purveyors of human slavery, Bill: it's called the Catholic Church hierarchy that continues to protect pedophiles, their protectors, and their apologists all these years later. And I can't wait to do it for many, many more years, along with all the other pedo-protectors out there, secular and not. Gracias for the love! And heckuva job, Brownie!
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