{"id":191943,"date":"2009-06-03T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/03\/the-worst-person-in-brooklyn\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:45:00","slug":"the-worst-person-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/03\/the-worst-person-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Person in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05312009\/news\/regionalnews\/molest_bill_pols_catch_holy_hell_171795.htm\">has threatened to close churches in the districts of state legislature if they vote to extend the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio threatened state lawmakers by vowing to close churches in their districts &#8212; and blame them for the closures &#8212; if they dared support a bill making it easier for people who were sexually assaulted as kids to sue, legislators told The Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s because that, you know, it might be expensive for the church.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea, how about<span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> Not Letting Your Priests Rape Children!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That would save even more money.<\/p>\n<p>One note is that it appears that the good Bishop&#8217;s attempts at blackmail backfired, and a number of legislators are seriously looking at supporting the bill now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, who has threatened to close churches in the districts of state legislature if they vote to extend the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse: Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio threatened state lawmakers by vowing to close churches in their districts &#8212; and blame them for the closures &#8212; if they dared &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1051,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}