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In reply to the discussion: Magdalene laundries report to be published [View all]axollot
(1,447 posts)72. Thank You. Christian Theocracy looks like this - we must not forget. n/t
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"What is it about institutions that do wrong and know it? They could have come clean"
FiveGoodMen
Feb 2013
#22
I'd never leard of the Magdalene Laundries until Joni Mitchell sang about them
OmahaBlueDog
Feb 2013
#9
I think it was based on stories told in a documentary about the laundries called
smokey nj
Feb 2013
#52
Dontchya love how all these 'impure' woman seem to have no 'impure' men around?
toby jo
Feb 2013
#13
Pedophiles will be Pedophiles -- Heard about the elite NY prep school Horace Mann's sex scandal?
whathehell
Feb 2013
#47
Who should pay, the Church or the Tax payer, for these were STATE organizations
happyslug
Feb 2013
#36
This is but one instance of a long history of religion being used to enslave humans.
Dawson Leery
Feb 2013
#53