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“There are so many inaccuracies in your post, I have neither the time or the inclination to addresss them all.
Those of us who are practicing Catholics KNOW that the Church DID NOT “condone” gay priests...in fact, for decades psychologists & psychiatrists told the Church that priests who committed sexual crimes could be “cured” and it was only decades later that those same psychologists & psychiatrists informed the Church that those priests could NOT be “cured.””

You can spin it any way you like, but the Catholic church accepted gay priests into the church. That is condoning. You may want to break out a dictionary some time. Your church allows gays to be priests. What is it that you don't understand about that FACT.

“As far as priests molesting boys, the FACT is that less than 7 percent of ALL the sexual attacks over the last 50 years were on prepubescent boys.
The MAJORITY were homosexual acts on teenagers.”

The last time I looked teenagers were boys. Are you seriously saying that it is ok for your GAY priests to molest boys or that it was somehow less bad that molesting younger boys? You sound liberal to me.

I do not like the Catholic church because of their liberal politics (and yes the church leadership is liberal on a host of issues) and its gay priest policy. If that makes me a basher, then that is what I am.

>>>>>>>>I do not like the Catholic church because of their liberal politics (and yes the church leadership is liberal on a host of issues) and its gay priest policy. If that makes me a basher, then that is what I am.

Vatican renews ban on gay priests
Tuesday, 29 November 2005

The Vatican has published long-awaited guidelines which reaffirm that active homosexuals and “supporters of gay culture” may not become priests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4480588.stm

Kellynla was trying to point out that true pedophilia is no more common (in fact, it is less so) among Catholic priests than among the general population. The problem is gay priests.

Technically, seminaries were not supposed to take gay candidates, but they did, under the influence of liberal psycho-babble nonsense after Vatican II, where the concept of “sin” totally disappeared. The specific ban on accepting gay candidates to the priesthood was recently reaffirmed. But there’s a large backlog of gay seminary instructors, gay lay directors, liberal pro-gay nuns who teach in these places, etc., and it will probably be awhile before the situation is entirely resolved. The problem lies with bishops who are bad or weak and have been in place for decades now. Personally, I think it’s time a few bishops were held accountable.

But it is not the policy of the Church to accept gay seminarians, ordain gay men to the clergy, or let gays carry on the “gay lifestyle” in any capacity in the clergy.

“You can spin it any way you like, but the Catholic church accepted gay priests into the church?”

“spin?”

Well if Christ “accepts” ALL sinners, then I guess you can call it “spin”...newbie.

“The last time I looked teenagers were boys”

there is a difference in child molestation and homosexuality, genius...

gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...what was your screen name before you changed in in 2007...”bigot”?