Irish Prime Minister Apologizes for Forced Labor in Magdalene Laundries

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Lately the world has been riveted on the Catholic church's cover up of their pedophile priests. This news story reminds us that there is far more the Catholic church has been hiding. I've ordered the movie The Magdalene Sisters and think it would be great at movie night sometime. Proof of the cruelty that religions can foster just keeps getting greater with this latest news. Read the link HERE! 

"For more than seven decades in the 20th century, thousands of unmarried mothers, women who had been sexually abused and young girls who had grown up in the care of the state lived and worked in the Irish Magdalene Laundries operated by four orders of Catholic nuns. Ignored by Irish society, 26.5% of these “fallen women” were sent there by the Irish state to work without pay for an average of six months. The Irish government had previously denied playing a role in sending young women to work in laundries."

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[Orson Zedd]

I've heard about this on the radio.  I nearly ran off the road when I found out it was in the developed world.  My god, how could they have done this?

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