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To: Erskine Childers

You are more than welcome my FRiend. I am just failing to make the connection between married priests and sexual abuse. 8 to 1 married men commit more sexual abuse than celibate priests. I think the FLDS has more married men molesting children as do muslims (both marry children as young as 12, and at least from reports from former members the FLDS men regularly abuse their own children). I fail to see the connection in the same way you do. All areas of the population suffer from this horrible issue and you are correct to say we must root it out. Married priests will not do it, it will just shift the demographic, as evidenced in the many married clergy and other married folks who abuse children.


75 posted on 05/24/2009 7:51:19 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: wombtotomb
married men commit more sexual abuse than celibate priests

The child sexual abuse problem in our Church is overwhelmingly one of homosexual men having sexual relations with pubescent boys. This isn't to say that other populations don't have their problems - they do. I'm just saying that homosexual men having sex with boys is OUR PROBLEM. That's the one we have to fix. It does no good to point to the problems of others. This won't fix our problem - which is an overwhelmingly gay clergy either having sex with boys or actively covering up for those that do.

Requiring priests to be married would effectively exclude homosexuals from the priesthood. This would largely solve our current problem. That isn't to say we won't have other problems, but the problems associated with an overwhelmingly gay Catholic clergy - homosexual men molesting boys being the most salient of them - won't be one of them.

You mention FLDS did not have "marriage" in the Christian sense. Warren Jeffs wasn't "married". Actually, instituting real Christian marriage would solve the FLDS problem, maybe they should try it, too.

76 posted on 05/24/2009 8:32:11 PM PDT by Erskine Childers
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