The U.S. government is trying to grant the Pope immunity from the courts for his role in the cover-up of the molestation of three teenage boys in a Catholic seminary. I’d like to point out that given the Catholic church’s staunch persecution of people who are homosexual, it’s ludicrous that they’re helping their own seminarians get away with molesting their recruits and then covering up the crime. The Pope, of all people, should see hypocrisy, lies, and homosexual behavior in all of this. Instead, he’s the ringleader of a conspiracy committing acts that he says will get people sent to hell.

The legal part of it all isn’t simple. The reason why the government wants to grant Benedict XVI immunity is because he is leader of a foreign state–it would be standard diplomatic immunity. However, the Vatican is first and foremost a religious organization, and the