Sounds Familiar to Me

The big news today is the Los Angeles clergy abuse case. The current sum to be awarded to victims of homosexual priests will be about $660 million. Mrs. Ichabod suggested that $666 million would be more appropriate. Most of these cases are not pedophile or heterosexual crimes. The vast majority involve teen-aged boys, the gay ideal since classical Greek times.

Here is a snippet from one news story:

Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating in 2003 resigned from the US Catholic Bishops' National Review Board after describing Mahony and other bishops as behaving like a "criminal enterprise" following a "code of silence."

"To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; that is the model of a criminal organization, not my church," Keating stated in his resignation letter to Bishop Wilton Gregory, the head of the US bishops' conference.

Sound familiar? The Code of Silence goes far beyond the Catholic Church and the Mafia. Ask a WELS district pope about the murder in Milwaukee or Phoenix, the abusive vicar in Grand Rapids, the known criminal courted by WELS. Ask the DP about WELS denying any knowledge of these matters when asked in court. The denial was perjury, a felony. Wait until he denounces the Catholic Church as a criminal enterprise and he thanks God (once again) for keeping WELS so pure, so orthodox, and so honest. Ask about the WELS cover-ups. He will say: "Where did you get this from?" or "I don't know anything about what you are saying."

Did you read about the WELS vicar and the DP in state prison in your favorite tabloid? No? Perhaps the synodical officials lean on the editor to suppress bad news in their own backyard. Watch for the LA story to appear while nothing is said about the fetid swamp called "conservative Lutheranism."

If you dare to move from asking about these criminal cover-ups to demanding action, you will be well and thoroughly beaten up. While the rapists and murderers are defended by official silence, you will be slandered from pillar to post - by the same officials. Consider it a compliment.

Ditto: all the synods, big and small.

ELCA does expose heterosexual offenders and even wrote about their massive $40 million case of homosexual clergy abuse (one man). The same cover-up process is at work. When one LCA pastor told me about the previous minister being found in the parsonage with another woman (in flagrante delicto, if you went to a prep), I told him, "In the future, they will celebrate if it was a woman." He roared with laughter. Now it's true.

One WELS pastor walked out on his wife and five children, Sunday morning, to leave with his mistress. Later he was welcomed back into fellowship and a call. (It's not like he criticized the synod, which is really serious.) When a neighboring pastor asked how this could happen, he was told sharply, "It's none of your business." The Ten Commandments are the Nine Suggestions. The glory has departed.