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To: Balt
It validates every nasty thing we've ever thought about Catholics: they're evil because they want to deny me my orgasms! And we can prove it because 1.7% of those weird priests abused a kid.

The percentage of pedophiles in the priesthood roughly equals the percentage of them in the general population.

That's never really been the point. The point was the lengths that the church hierarchy went to cover it up and the willingness to shift these pervert priests around rather than deal with the problem in a forthright manner.

5 posted on 07/01/2009 1:44:56 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
The point was the lengths that the church hierarchy went to cover it up and the willingness to shift these pervert priests around rather than deal with the problem in a forthright manner.

No argument here. But Mr. Miller still has a point inasmuch as many people, encourged by the media, have come to believe that it's that "weird celibacy thing" that's at the heart of the problem.

18 posted on 07/01/2009 6:23:50 PM PDT by Balt (http://priestlypugilist.com)
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