Another Stupid Patrick Coolican Article

Patrick Coolican, the unethical, lazy, brain cell lacking but extreme liberal (pretty much sums up about 95% of liberals) comes up with another lame news column. In this column, Coolican writes like he has bipolar disease when he writes about the Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe case. He cannot make up his mind on what to think so he fills the article with his type of gibberish. In the article he writes about Father Kevin McAuliffe, who was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison for stealing $650,000 from Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton parish specifically and in general, the Diocese of Las Vegas. Worse than the crime, McAuliffe significantly harmed the trust of Catholics in the clergy (like that has not happened before).
First, this is the first time Coolican and the Las Vegas Sun has reported on this story(The Sun ran an article yesterday, the first time they reported on this story- wonder why they holding back on the story?)
I first reported something was up on June 20, 2011: http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2011/06/former-wi-priest-suspended-from-las.html The Las Vegas Review Journal has been reporting on this story since June 20th as well. So, welcome to the party, Patrick and the Las Vegas Sun.
Now, some tidbits from Coolican's article: Judge James Mahan cited Shakespeare’s Sonnet 94: “Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
“You abused a position of trust,” Mahan said.
McAuliffe brought shame on a church he claimed to love. And think of the good $650,000 could have done.
The case is a darkened spiritual and moral maze. It forces us to confront the most important questions about sin and forgiveness, justice and mercy, biological determinism and free will. I can find no way out.
Surely he needs to be held responsible for his actions, and he should pay the same price as the thousands of more common thieves in our valley. But he’s been serving people for decades, and he almost certainly suffered from untreated psychiatric conditions for years.
I can understand the prison term, though he’ll likely get no treatment there, and I think he could do as much or more good on the outside in the service of others and the community.
Should he experience the suffering that comes with the loss of liberty in prison? Yes. But hasn’t he already suffered from intense scrutiny, shame and loss of ecclesiastical duties?
If we say that addicts lose control of their behavior, how do we hold them responsible for their behavior?
Complex questions, and I have no answers. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jan/14/so-many-questions-linger-after-priest-who-stole-ga/
First, this case is not about a darkened spiritual and moral maze. There is nothing spiritual about this case. This case was about theft by a priest. He wasn't stealing for the Church, he was stealing for himself and his gambling. And morals? What morals? This isn't a case of Robin Hood, where McAuliffe stole from the rich and gave to the poor. This is a case where McAuliffe did steal from the rich (SEAS is probably the first or second richest Catholic parish in Las Vegas) and he gave to himself.
In one sentence, Coolican says he understands the prison sentence but thinks McAuliffe can do better being out in the community. See what I meant when I say that Coolican lacks brain cells. You cannot logically support both positions- either prison or probation- not both.
Coolican says he suffered from intense scrutiny, shame and the loss of priestly duties. Really Coolican? Did Coolican actually do research for this article? McAuliffe's picture is still on the Las Vegas Diocese priest roster web site: http://www.lasvegas-diocese.org/priests.php There is no evidence that McAuliffe has been fired and he certainly has not been defrocked as a priest. Maybe in the fututre, but not yet. As as the shame and scrutiny, doesn't that happen to other professionals who have been arrested? Teachers, police officers, newspaper columnists all suffer shame and scrunity when they are arrested and sentenced, so why should McAuliffe be any different?
And if addicts lose control of their behavior, how do we hold them accountable for their behavior? Huh? English please.
More from the article: Here’s what I do know, however: Pathological gambling and gambling addiction are real, and they are biological. I found the atmosphere in the courtroom hostile to accepted science.
But later he says this: As with most mental illness, there is no “objective test,” no blood or urine test. At least not yet.
Well, then then gambling addiction is not biological. If it was biological, there would be medical tests to prove that gambling addiction is a physical/biological disease. Geez, even my pet guinea pig could figure this lie out.
But the peer-reviewed science is clear: The mind of a compulsive gambler is different, flooded with the pleasure-regulating chemical dopamine when in front of a video poker terminal. Their brains are different; you could even say damaged.
Obviously, not all scientist agree on this, otherwise, McAuliffe would have pleaded not guilty due to a mental illness, but instead McAuliffe pled guilty to the watered down crimes he was charged with.
But of course, these are the same kind of arguments that global warming supporters believe in, but global warming has pretty much been debunked and only believed in by a bunch of Kool Aide drinkers and people who get money for saying that global warming exists.
So, once again, Patrick Coolican shows what a complete idiot he is and also shows he really didn't know what he was writing about. Coolican had an agenda and he tried to fit the story to his beliefs but he failed miserably.