Seth Williams needs to tell us what he really thinks.
Make no mistake, the Philadelphia district attorney is not even a little bit happy about an appeals court ruling that threw out the case against Monsignor William Lynn, convicted of endangering the welfare of children in the children's sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Yesterday a Philadelphia judge admitted she may have erred in her interpretation of the law, and set bail for the only high-ranking church official convicted in the scandals.
That did not sit particularly well with Williams. In fact, he decided to raise a little holy hell.
He railed against the ruling tossing the case against Lynn and called the move to grant him bail an abomination.
Williams vowed to do everything in his power to put Lynn "back where he belongs, behind bars."
I agree with Williams when he says he was "disgusted" with the rulings and what has transpired in this case.
What I don't agree with is the unshakeable facts that at the time Lynn is alleged to have been endangering children, the law did not apply to him. It was changed later, and Lynn was charged retroactively.
I spent yesterday morning talking about this volatile subject with Dom Giordano on his WPHT-1210 AM radio show. Clearly Dom is of the belief that Lynn absolutely did endanger children and that he deserved to be in jail.
I don't necessarily disagree with him, when it comes to what Lynn and in fact the superiors of the archdiocese did in terms of the way they handled child sexual abuse cases.
But it doesn't change the law.
Apparently, it doesn't change opinions either.
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