Thou shalt not launder money
23 July 2012
Rejecting what he calls a “narco-team” preparing to take over the government of the nation, Bishop Raul Vera of Saltillo weighed in yesterday on post-election legal process:
We can not, under the guise of a false social peace, sanction a process full of irregularities and even crimes such as using laundering money that covers up the the dark processes of other crimes, and leads to a bogus justice process and the application of weak sanctions, as if these were minor offenses.
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The bishop may have made some good points, but ¨mercenario¨ summed it up:
pinches pederastas, que no saben que no se deben meter en la politica
(use Google translate)
You are familiar with Raúl Vera’s history? He has never been accused of pedastry, or of covering up pedastry by the clergy, although the right-wing Pius X Society out of Canada did try to have him removed, claiming he was a “heretic” for his support of same-gender civil unions in Coahuila, and assigning a priest as the missionary pastor to GLBT and other under-served communities (prisoners, migrants, etc.). “mercenario” is either just reaching for the nearest weapon in anti-clericalism, seriously misinformed or another in a long stream of right-wingers who’ve attempted to smear one of the world’s best known (and most honored) human rights advocates.
A couple of the comments on the SDP Noticias thread are priceless:
Con obispos como este hasta me reconvierto al catolicismo
a lo mejor [Enrique Pena Nieto buddy Mario Marin] lo violo un sacerdote cuando niño
Reality, the comment made by ¨mercenario¨ was simply a ¨clean up your own backyard first¨, standard attack. Many or most people feel that the Church, no matter how well intentioned, does not belong in politics.