A little bit of running from the cops? A small amount of identity theft?

We don't seem to be having a dialogue here. You seem to be in soliloquy mode. I think I am pretty clear that I am talking about moral issues here and not legal ones. If you are only interested in legal issues, then I suppose you think what the Bush folks have done is mostly okay since they seem to have no trouble getting some sort of legal stamp on most of their behavior. I don't see any of them running from the law.

You, meantime, seem to not want to discuss at all the harm that certain behavior causes. I am beginning to think that you are trying to evade grappling with the harm that molestation does to children. Why is that exactly?

To think that I was raised under the auspices of Pope Pious (there is an oxymoran waiting to be discussed), spoon fed massive quantities of brainwashing hypocritical hogwash in the form of Catachism (sp?) and find 50 years later that it is all about power and f--king little boys makes me glad that I have nothing to do with these thieves' of souls. Sure there is some nice art to reflect on and some interesting architecture but at what cost??? If Jesus is/was god and came back to see this he would puke, in fact, when I hear about these pedophilic monsters I want to puke. Guiliani, indeed...The only good news here is that once the popularity contest is over and the real Republicans get ahold of him, he will be sausage. Ciao Rudi, you are an immensely disturbing human being and your lack of critical judgement about who you surround yourself will defeat you. We may all be stupid Americans, but after 8 years of Rove and Cheney, even we, dumb as we are, know that you rely directly on the same scare and fear tactics. We also know that you can't make us safer, and in your bluster and potentially idiotic actions will only make us more vulnerable to the hateful fringe elements of terror.

Retire to the speaking circuit and vacation in the Poconos

UneasyOne wrote: "...I was an alter boy-- UnEasyOne..."

You're lucky; many young boys were "altered" by being abused by Roman Catholic priests; consider yourself damned lucky.

The hilarity, btw, is that the word is "altar", but, it's actually funnier if you WERE an "altered boy".

I'm just sayin'...