Now, don’t get me wrong. The commission should indeed investigate
allegations of child sex abuse wherever they may have
occurred. But when Opposition leader Tony Abbott and Cardinal George Pell whine
about how the Catholic Church is being “targeted” and that the commission should
be “wide-ranging” and not “focus solely on the Catholic Church”, they are being
obscenely disingenuous. Abbott, who is Catholic, and Cardinal Pell are
high-status members of a global organisation that has aided and abetted child
molesters and sexual predators within its ranks for decades,
an organisation that often shows outright contempt for civil laws because it
considers itself subject only to the laws of its own theocracy.
As Labor backbencher Senator Doug Cameron observed, if the “extremely
powerful and politically influential church was confident abuse was no longer
occurring, it had nothing to fear from a royal commission,” and also that the church
should rightly be the focus of any commission because “that’s where the major
problem seems to be.”
Julia Gillard’s assurance that the commission will not
discriminate is simply political correctness. Many of us are not fooled by the
false equivalence being made. The Catholic Church’s role in child sex abuse and
its subsequent cover-up is proportionately large enough to warrant a commission
of its own. That the government has decided on a more extensive investigation
should be considered an undeserved courtesy by petulant Catholics like Tony
Abbott and Cardinal Pell.
13.11.12
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