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To: MadIvan

This week? I stopped reading him after his tirade against the Catholic church after the abuse scandal and his long diatribe about how celibacy is unnatural therefore, essentially, pushing priests into abusing young teens (no chance, of course, that there were actually homosexuals, right Andrew?).


4 posted on 07/17/2004 4:18:27 PM PDT by ECM
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To: ECM
his long diatribe about how celibacy is unnatural therefore, essentially, pushing priests into abusing young teens

That's not at all what he said. He said if there wasn't a celibacy requirement, more non-pedophiles would go into the priesthood. Part of the problem is that the Church is short of priests, so (the argument goes) it is less likely to turn away bad candidates.

I don't think Sullivan ever said depriving a normal person of sex would turn him into a child molester. I challenge you to find where he said that. I think you're (deliberately?) mis-stating his argument to make him look as bad as possible.

35 posted on 07/18/2004 1:09:34 AM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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