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Study debunks theories on priests' sex abuse
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| November 18.2009
| Ann Rodgers
Posted on 11/17/2009 10:48:43 PM PST by malkee
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posted on
11/17/2009 10:48:44 PM PST
by
malkee
To: malkee
One of my wife’s HS classmates is doing time for several abuses in his role as Priest in 3 or 4 Churches he served plus he ran the Boys Camp here in the Redwoods...
To: malkee
"We do not have data to support ... those assertions," Lessee...99% of the cases involved priests (males) molesting boys (males).
This is sort of like ignoring angry muslims, isn't it?
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posted on
11/17/2009 10:55:49 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(the obama doctrine: "let's not rush to any conclusions...")
To: malkee
Oh, brother. not this stuff again. No matter how you slice it, it was male on male abuse. That would be homosexuality.
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posted on
11/17/2009 10:59:14 PM PST
by
dixjea
To: malkee
$1.8 million study Why would a study cost so much?
To: the invisib1e hand
The Boy Scouts get sued for not allowing homosexual scout masters in.
The Boy Scouts do NOT get sued for sex abuse.
The Catholic Church gets sued for sex abuse, the vast majority of these cases involve male Priests who are involved with post-puberty MALE victims.
This is NOT the medical definition of pedophilia, this is homosexual sex abuse!
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posted on
11/17/2009 11:00:56 PM PST
by
Kansas58
To: Kansas58
....This is NOT the medical definition of pedophilia, this is homosexual sex abuse! I do not understand your comment. What is God's definition, as these abuses occurred in 'His' name? And NO I am not picking on the Catholic Church. I would ask the same question regardless of the denomination.
Do you think the Heavenly Father distinguishes between pedophilia and homosexual abuses?
To: malkee
"We do not have data to support ... those assertions," You would if you would step out into the parking lot under the window that you threw it out of, and bring it back into your offices.
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posted on
11/17/2009 11:14:40 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Get rid of the dirty moderates. Get rid of them,)
To: narses
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posted on
11/17/2009 11:15:54 PM PST
by
malkee
(Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than three years now -- But I think about it every day.)
To: malkee
initial findings in their look into causes of the Catholic church’s 2002 sexual-abuse scandal,”
Were any of the “findings”:
Homo priests got caught?
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posted on
11/17/2009 11:18:19 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
To: Kansas58
The Boy Scouts get sued for not allowing homosexual scout masters in. The Boy Scouts do NOT get sued for sex abuse. Excellent observation.
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posted on
11/17/2009 11:22:36 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(the obama doctrine: "let's not rush to any conclusions...")
To: malkee
Sounds like John Jay College is worried about political correctness. They had no problem attiributing the abuse to homosexuals when the study originally came out.
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posted on
11/17/2009 11:33:19 PM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
(New Wizard of Oz: Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West & Michelle as the Wicked Witch of the East.)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: Just mythoughts
The issue is not whether it was evil. Nobody disputes that.
The point is that when adult men abuse adolescents, the adult men are NOT “pedophiles.” They are homosexual abusers.
That’s why the “study” is bogus. It is an attempt to keep the mislabeling of the problem as “pedophile priests.” The number of actual pedophiles who have been exposed in “the scandals” is between two and five.
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posted on
11/18/2009 2:18:19 AM PST
by
Arthur McGowan
(In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
To: malkee
Oh, you mean the guys out molesting young men and boys aren’t homosexual?
Well, that’s a relief.
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To: Kansas58
This is NOT the medical definition of pedophilia, It's the medical definition of ephebophilia.
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posted on
11/18/2009 5:51:39 AM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: malkee
some friends of mine fled the seminaries in the 80’s because of rampant homosexuality among the faculty (priests). Wish it weren't true. Then of course there was the stupid liberalism.
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posted on
11/18/2009 5:58:05 AM PST
by
Puddleglum
("due to the record harvest, rationing will continue as usual")
To: malkee
Karen Terry = shill
(Most) Bishops = quislings
$1.8 million = reason to withhold offerings for non-subsistence expenses
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posted on
11/18/2009 5:59:28 AM PST
by
Puddleglum
("due to the record harvest, rationing will continue as usual")
To: Just mythoughts
Not at all.
But to solve the problem, we must understand the problem.
This was not, really, a case of adults attracted to children.
Many “true” pedophiles are attracted to little boys and little girls, alike.
Very, very few of the abusive Priests messed around with little girls. In fact, very few of the Priests were even attracted to anyone under the age of puberty.
This makes the problem a bit more clear:
Homosexual Priests were almost exclusively responsible for this entire problem!
The number of abusive Priests is less than 5% of the entire Priesthood, but they have done enormous damage.
Again, let us all understand the problem before we try to “fix” anything:
Men who are attracted to other men should not spend large amounts of time, alone, with vulnerable young men.
I would not want my under-age daughters to spend the night, in a tent, with a grown man.
Children should NOT be put in a position of being around those who might be sexually attracted to them.
Many homosexual Priests joined the Priesthood, in the FIRST place, as an escape. Before the Homosexual lifestyle came out of the closet, being a Priest was a way to avoid catching hell for not being married, a way to avoid detection.
Though less than 5% of the Priesthood caused these problems, almost ALL of those, particular Priests, are HOMOSEXUALS!
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posted on
11/18/2009 6:59:21 AM PST
by
Kansas58
To: Just mythoughts
Do you think the Heavenly Father distinguishes between pedophilia and homosexual abuses?Of course He does, because He's at least as smart as I am. To distinguish between two things does not imply APPROVAL of either one of them.
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posted on
11/18/2009 11:23:59 PM PST
by
Arthur McGowan
(In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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