[A. Pole]

You continue to minimize it while denying that is exactly what you are doing!

Red Herring!

Red Herring:
In argument, something designed to divert an opponent’s attention from the central issue. If a herring is dragged across a trail that hounds are following, it throws them off the scent.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy at Bartleby.com

[George W. Bush]

I'm not certain why Aquinasfan or saradippity or you seem to so strongly connect Benedit's ban on gays in the priesthood to relate so directly to pedophilia/pederasty.

I am not, by the way, the one who brought it up on this thread. You Catholics did. I was perfectly content to discuss other matters and at one point was satisfied to go seek other threads until I got flagged back repeatedly. I wonder why some of you appear to immediately start thinking about your pedophile/ephebophile party line from reading this thread. And, BTW, outside your own circles, this kind of thinking is held in the same regard as the old tale about wet dreams to explain stained undergarments.

Anyway, I just got a call and I'm going over to the church for an hour or so (duty calls). We Baptists may not be sophisticated enough to draw fine distinctions between pedophiles and ephebophiles but we somehow struggle forward anyway.