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Karen Gross

Educator/Author (children and adult books); Senior Counsel, Finn Partners

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I just want to say as the sun rises again that I feel sick to my stomach. Truly sick. I can't even turn on TV or eat or listen or read. The debacle of yesterday -- and I missed the last hour --- will forever change how we view victims and those accused. And we all know someone is lying. Both people who testified can't be truth tellers. I know who I think is lying. But, how people can obfuscate truth and play off emotions and act indignant -- professing that religion and religious schools carry righteousness in and of themselves -- is offensive no matter what. I'd like to remind people that good folks can do bad things. And bad people can do good things. And, religion isn't like a vaccine -- religious people and doctors and teachers abuse children and when they do, those acts are buried and the victims' words discarded and truth is hard to find and even harder to address. Everyone here can judge for themselves whether politics trumped truth. That is my line for today: politics (whichever side you are on) trumped truth --- in every sense. …see more

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