According to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, speaking to his flock in Chile. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8618878.stm Amazingly ignorant bullshit even for a Cardinal. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The church doesn't want to look at how it creates a milieu for abuse, nor that if you want to go statistically it's men who tend to abuse more - if we have to pick out a group.
'The Pope should not feel he is under the pressure of the glare of the media if such a meeting takes place, Fr Federico Lombardi said, so that he can listen and communicate with them.' Oh yes he should. Gonna BURN. fINALLY THEY'RE GONNA BURN.
Of course it's completely lost on the Catholic church that it is repressed homosexuals who turn to paedophilia not because they are true paedophiles but because it's the only piece of arse they think they can get and still remain within the closet. Sad, sad, sad!
How would you explain the propensity for priests to abuse the kids? The devil is looking good at the moment. Either that or Armageddon..."armageddon all the sweet young ass I can get'.
actually the truth is stranger than fiction NAMBLA - for those of you who aren't in the know and missed the southpark episode
Sexual frustration, paedophiles drawn to the RCC as an easy way to access children, probably many reasons. The more important questions are about the RCC covering up the abuse that has spanned decades (that we know of) and every corner of the globe.
Perhaps the Cardinal should have read some of this before he tried to blame a group for the problem within the church: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/HTML/facts_molestation.html
They specialize in ignorant BS Even? What's all this about "even for a Cardinal"? You get to be a Cardinal by promoting ignorant and superstitious bullshit. He's immersed in it. The Bishop of Tenerife last week allegedly blamed the sexually abused children for tempting the priests. The Pope's preacher apparently compared the Catholic Church to Holocaust Jews recently. Right now, the Catholic clergy specializes in mind-bogglingly stupid bullshit.
That was my point, Cardinals are full of shit anyway but this latest crap about homosexuality and child abuse just adds to the mountain of excrement.
YES! SISTER DOREEN! PREACH THAT GOSPEL! This is something that has gone through my head before, in moments of spiritual ecstacy: why don't churchy people, those conservative Christians and all, if they want to really get to the root of a problem, then get to the root of the problem, rather than skirt the periphery?!?! Homosexuality is the cause of this and that, sodom and gomorrah, Armageddon, yada yada... when, like you point out, it's... MEN! THE MALE GENDER! Most rape, molestation, murder, other violent crimes, and robbery, starting wars, etc.. the majority of the time, it is MEN who commit those crimes. You would think though, that it's only homosexuals who are responsible for all that.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I reviewed around 200 cases of sex offenses in a local database not too long ago. They included all offenses, not just child abuse. Approximately 7% of those were same-gender crimes. Of course, that was only a small part of the database that I reviewed. I would judge the margin of error in that to be about +- 1% maximum. Most samples looking at the ratio of same-gender sex crimes are kind of small, from my own studies. But clearly, homosexuals do not commit around 30% of child molestation cases, as Dr. Cameron asserts. And his data is generally the only that is cited by the anti-homosexual groups. In fact, some studies if I recall correctly, have actually concluded that homosexuals might be less inclined than the average heterosexual to commit child sexual abuse.
An opinion piece from the National Review is fiction. The statistics do not back up homosexuals as abusing more children than heterosexuals. Men however do abuse more children than women. It would seem like people who are homophobic and want homosexuals not to be brought into contact with children would want the same restriction placed on men when faced with statistics. As far as Nambla, sure sick stuff. But the internet is filled with hetero child porn, in fact the tendencies toward minors or minor-looking women is all over hetero porn. It is just this is taken for granted. They don't need an organization, they have thousands. Heterosexual trafficking of girls is huge business.
Zut Alors! They're on to our insidious plan. And we would have had it, were it not for those meddlesome kids! ~String
It's been amazing me ever since I came to the realization that fundies have an extremely one sided bigotry. For most of them, the wildest insinuations, a priori "Truth", and outright hatred are fine if directed at homosexuals. Most of those same would never indulge in doing that to a different race, or, more appropriately, to a certain gender. But unsupported discrimination is always fine if God says YES! Males can be blamed for the majority of crimes, sexual or not. But, MAN is in the image of GOD, so it isn't proper to persecute people because of their genitalia, you know. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!