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Originally posted by tk13:
Nick Sandmann's family has retained an attorney well known for handling high profile libel and slander cases:

https://www.wcpo.com/news/loca...ing-in-libel-slander

http://www.fox19.com/2019/01/2...gh-profile-attorney/

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Originally posted by x0225095:
Fortunately the man doesn’t make the Church. Popes and diocesan Bishops come and go. Priests come and go but the truth is still the truth. For me, being Catholic isn’t like changing underwear when it no longer suits you. Rather, you cherish the good leaders while you have them and you endure the bad ones while they wear the cloth.

Because of the sex abuse scandles within the church over the last 20 years, these bishops are primed at the pump to respond quickly and decisively to acts unbecoming of the church and illegal to the law. Surely, assuming the best about the man, this was the intent of the diocese leadership. In this case, they responded quickly but relied solely on the fake media reports for their information. Hopefully, this diocese will gets the facts in order ASAP and act quickly to reverse their initial position and instead defend and support their youth and their school; neither of whom did anything wrong.

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Originally posted by x0225095:
Your take?

You know nothing.

You think he doesn’t care about the school or the children within and their families? Please. One doesn’t get to be a bishop by being a complete asshole throughout his career.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by x0225095:
Your take?

You know nothing.

You think he doesn’t care about the school or the children within and their families? Please. One doesn’t get to be a bishop by being a complete asshole throughout his career.

I'm not a Catholic, or even a Christian, but I know enough about the Bible that you don't throw your brother under the bus to save your own skin. For the most part to get to bishop you need to be a politician. You don't get to be a Bishop based on being a good preacher.

The fact that this gentleman, who has a fiduciary responsibility to these children, but chose his best interest first is deplorable.

An easy statement to make would be. "An accusation has been made against our students. It's an extremely important allegation, we promise that we will get to the bottom of this and take all actions necessarily if this claim proves to be true, and punish or remove anyone who has not lived up to our standards as a cucrch and school."

Instead the students were thrown under a bus and not until five days after the exculpatory evidence was presented did he/they admit wrongdoing.


I'm not a religious person, so maybe I have too high of expations of The Church.

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Man Booted From School Board Meeting For Naming Teacher Who Called Covington Boys ‘Hitler Youth’


A man was escorted out of a Colorado school board meeting Thursday for naming a teacher who called the wrong Covington Catholic boy part of the “Hitler Youth” on a now-deleted Twitter account.

Mountain Ridge Middle School seventh-grade history teacher Michelle Grissom allegedly named and posted a picture of Covington Catholic student Jay Jackson as one of the boys wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats in Washington, D.C. Jackson was not in Washington with his peers, who were confronted by American Indian activist Nathan Phillips.

“I can’t imagine what drove a teacher to make comments online that were hateful and bigoted, slanderous and vilifying,” parent Aaron Johnson said Thursday. “Now we’re all left picking up the pieces she broke.”

Johnson elaborated to The Daily Caller News Foundation over the phone that Grissom’s actions makes the entire school community look bad.

John Jackson, the father, asked Grissom several times to take down the tweet relating his son to “Hitler Youth.” The post was taken down only after John Jackson contacted the Douglas County Schools.

Johnson was asked to leave after mentioning Grissom by name, according to the video.

“We’ve been very explicit about no names being mentioned in our board meetings, so at this point you are out of order and would ask that you would cease your comment, given that you have violated the expectation that no names be mentioned in a slanderous way,” board member David Ray said.

The district’s board meeting policy, obtained by TheDCNF from Douglas County Schools public information officer Paula Hans, asks speakers to “refrain from using individual names in an offensive matter.” (RELATED: Trump Says Covington Catholic Boys ‘Making Big Comeback’)

Johnson said the intention of going to the podium was to have the district reassess their social media policy. He said he was not aware of the school board policy on names and believes it is implemented selectively.

A woman who had school officials’ names on a sign was cautioned by Ray about using names at the Jan. 8 board meeting, but was not kicked out.

“I, and many other residents have been denied our request to speak during the public comment period prior to tonight’s Board meeting,” Ted Harvey, a former Republican State Senator for Colorado, said to TheDCNF prior to Thursday’s meeting. “As a taxpaying citizen of Douglas County, I find this denial by David Ray, the President of the School Board, rather offensive.”

Grissom was put on administrative leave as the district investigates. She also resigned as an executive board member for Douglas County Federation teacher union, according to 9News.

“The board president is responsible for directing speakers to confine their remarks to the agenda item for which they have signed up to speak,” Ray said in a statement obtained by TheDCNF. “Further, the policy states that since the board’s responsibility is setting policy for the school district, members of the public should direct their comments to policy matters. It is District policy not to hear, in public session, personal complaints against any district personnel.”

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We’ve been very explicit about no names being mentioned in our board meetings, so at this point you are out of order and would ask that you would cease your comment, given that you have violated the expectation that no names be mentioned in a slanderous way,” board member David Ray said.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
^^^ funny but, the grammar Nazi in me can't help it, 1984 needs to be italicized or it should read 1949.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
...made by the “history teacher”.

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On 25 Jan 2019 Bishop of Covington, Roger Foys, wrote an apology letter

"I especially apologize to Nicholas Sandmann and his family"