Atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins is planning to have the Pope arrested during his visit to Britain "for crimes against humanity". Richard Dawkins, along with atheist author Christopher Hitchens, believe they can apply the same legal principle used to arrest the late Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, when he visited Britain in 1998.
The Pope has recently been struck with a new wave of controversy over a letter he signed in 1985, arguing that "the good of the universal church" should come first before defrocking an American priest who committed sex offenses against two boys.
This doesn't come as a surprise to me, and is definitely not the first time the church has 'excused' or 'protected' priests involved in sexual offenses. The church needs to realize that they are not above the law, and anyone, disregarding their status in society, should be punished for the crime according to the appropriate laws. It's sickening to think that these kinds of acts go unnoticed and unpunished.
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