It's a poor attempt at misdirection. "Don't look here. Look over there!"
There's been a long and sordid equation between homosexuality and pedophilia - even though studies of pedophiles indicate that most have heterosexual tendencies. So making out that it's the gays is the Catholic churches fallback position.
Don't you know that the Pope and everyone else in the Catholic Church are infallible? I feel sorry for the Catholic congregation, and those priests who can keep it in their pants/robes, who are more than likely just trying to get on with their lives, and follow the teachings of their God - it must knock your confidence in your church when shit like this goes on.
No matter what the age, if there's coercion, exploitation, non-consensuality, then it's abuse.
The Catholic pedophile scandal is being driven by the Catholic pedophiles and those who seek to protect them, and the shocking ways in which they are going about hiding or justifying it; the rest of us right thinking and right feeling people are just outraged at the hypocrisy and vitriol pouring out from the Church. It seems like they're so bloody angry that they got caught, not realising that the act itself is unconscionable.
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Date: 2010-04-13 08:42 pm (UTC)It's a poor attempt at misdirection. "Don't look here. Look over there!"
There's been a long and sordid equation between homosexuality and pedophilia - even though studies of pedophiles indicate that most have heterosexual tendencies. So making out that it's the gays is the Catholic churches fallback position.
Don't you know that the Pope and everyone else in the Catholic Church are infallible? I feel sorry for the Catholic congregation, and those priests who can keep it in their pants/robes, who are more than likely just trying to get on with their lives, and follow the teachings of their God - it must knock your confidence in your church when shit like this goes on.
No matter what the age, if there's coercion, exploitation, non-consensuality, then it's abuse.
The Catholic pedophile scandal is being driven by the Catholic pedophiles and those who seek to protect them, and the shocking ways in which they are going about hiding or justifying it; the rest of us right thinking and right feeling people are just outraged at the hypocrisy and vitriol pouring out from the Church. It seems like they're so bloody angry that they got caught, not realising that the act itself is unconscionable.