In 2009, Dr. Steve Taylor, a Louisiana psychiatrist, faced serious trouble for downloading child pornography and “possessing more than 100 sexually explicit pictures of children.”
Shockingly, Barbara Blaine, the founder of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), wrote a passionate letter to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners on behalf of the criminal doctor.
Because Dr. Taylor had worked extensively with SNAP, Blaine reportedly pleaded that the Board “consider Taylor’s humanitarian work and professional contributions to victims of childhood sexual abuse” before punishing him.
Her petition revealed a callous and cold-hearted disregard for the innocent victims of the vile child pornography that Dr. Taylor possessed.
Now, in a bleary-eyed “media statement” today (Wed. 1/11/12), Blaine is upset because she claims a “newly-revealed letter strongly suggests that Mother Teresa lobbied Jesuit officials to put an accused pedophile priest put back on the job quickly.”
Based on this alleged letter, Blaine is demanding that the Church “slow down the drive to make [Mother Teresa] a saint.”
Indeed, the San Francisco Weekly has reported the existence of an unsigned 1994 letter in which Mother Teresa allegedly believes that an abusive West-coast priest can be returned to ministry. (Its authenticity has not yet been verified.)
However, the hypocrisy is glaring.
As recently as a two-and-a-half years ago, Blaine gladly praised a child-porn doctor’s so-called “humanitarian work” to the Louisiana medical board.
Meanwhile, Blaine believes she is on solid ground to harangue Mother Teresa (and the Church) for a letter written by a then- 83-year-old nun whose humanitarian work is unparalleled in recent memory.
Good grief.
Will the media begin to take note of SNAP’s growing record of brazen hypocrisy?
