one god, two standards

From the Washington Post, via Atrios:

The state suspended the licenses of two church-affiliated day care centers where children allegedly were sexually molested, forced to eat worms and pick each other's noses during employee-led games of "Truth or Dare." ...

The former director of the day care centers, Joshua Palin, 25, has been charged with molesting 10 children, some of them during what investigators said were twisted games of Truth or Dare. He is the son of the affiliated church's pastor.

I will say what I always say in these cases, which is:  Can you imagine what the Christian Right would do and say if these centers were run by Muslims?  Or, God forbid, Wiccans?   They would start another Jesus Jihad.  Neocons like Daniel Pipes would tell us this is why we're in the Middle East and need to reform Islam at the point of a gun.  TV evangelists would explain why Wiccans can't have civil rights.  But because the monsters in question are Christian, there will be a thundering silence, just as there has been over the Catholic priests:

• From Jerry Falwell:  Silence.
• From Pat Roberston:  Silence.
• From Tom DeLay:  Silence.
• From Bill Frist:  Silence.

Welcome to Godstate America 2000, where silence is golden when you're a child molester.

Comments

[donna]

Dear Christian right:

Please police your own selves and leave the rest of us alone. Thanks!