Catholics buy off South Dakota Legislature — again

Catholicism is hope like gonorrhea is charity.

In South Dakota at least thirty two members of the Church of the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers have been credibly accused of preying on children and vulnerable adults but don't expect suspected incel Jason Ravnsborg, Attorney General and former altar boy to take on both South Dakota Dioceses. Don DeGrood has just been installed to lord over the slush fund that buys South Dakota's corrupt legislature.

Both South Dakota dioceses are up to their areolae in debt to the white christianic ruling class for covering up crimes against Native Americans committed by pederastic priests where catholic congregations and the state's legislature have engaged in obstruction of justice for decades. Bernie v. Blue Cloud Abbey was one of several cases that ended up before the South Dakota Supreme Court alleging church officials at the time covered up serial sexual abuse taking place at the compound. After helping to broker the sale of the abbey Watertown member of the criminal cult, Lee Schoenbeck, aided by fellow cultist and lobbyist Jeremiah Murphy, forced the South Dakota Legislature to pass laws covering up countless crimes committed by their sect by enacting statutes of limitations.

Former Rapid City cleric Bob Gruss is settling into the Saginaw, Michigan diocese, itself wracked with abuses committed by predator priests.

Think about what's happening here: Avera Health is a federally-subsidized catholic hospital operating as an oligopoly, funneling money to parishes paying settlements or hush money for the sins of predatory priests paid for by insurers and patients.

Two veteran South Dakota reporters, Bob Mercer and Kevin Woster are members of this international crime syndicate. Neither one has ever covered the sins being committed by their cult.

An effort to change a South Dakota law that protects groups such as the Catholic Church from sexual abuse lawsuits was defeated in committee Monday in Pierre. The issue has come up almost every year since 2010, when a last-minute proposal changed South Dakota’s statute of limitations and unraveled claims from dozens of people who alleged they were abused across a span of decades at St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty and Tekakwitha Indian Mission in Sisseton. But South Dakota's 2010 law change blocked anyone 40 or older from recovering damages from any entity “other than the person who perpetrated the actual act of sexual abuse.” [South Dakota legislators vote down bill involving sex abuse lawsuits]

Image lifted from the Santa Fe Reporter.

Native women confronted lawmakers in South Dakota with their description of how in the 1950s and 1960s priests and nuns perpetrated systematic rape, abuse and forced abortions. Lawmakers killed a bill that would allow them to sue the church.https://t.co/On0Qsw9J2M

— Stephen Groves (@stephengroves) February 24, 2020