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To: PGR88

When priests rape little girls then, I guess you’re fine with that.


17 posted on 05/16/2016 11:10:58 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on
When priests rape little girls then, I guess you’re fine with that.

Asinine response. Of course not.

Yes, it occurs, but 80+% of the cases were man-boy.

21 posted on 05/16/2016 11:18:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: babble-on
permitting homosexuals to enter and stay the priesthood led to the rape of a lot of young boys

When priests rape little girls then, I guess you’re fine with that.

I think you've settled on a different aspect of the antecedent from the one intended by the poster. Homosexuality is a mental illness that was specifically tolerated by some unwise seminary directors and bishops in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to men being admitted to the priesthood who would have been excluded in previous centuries. This was at a time when homosexuality was being promoted in institutions throughout the Western world as harmless or even uniquely beneficial.

Only the mentally ill prey on children. Virtually alone among institutions in recent years, the Catholic church has cracked down on sexual deviants in admittance to seminaries and in parishes around the world. It's worth bearing in mind that per capita, the risk to children from homosexual males has continuously been considerably lower at Catholic parishes than at Protestant ones, or in public schools, throughout the period for which detailed statistics are available, which is since 1950.

Now, as always, the vast majority of priests are normal men who grew up playing sports and liking girls. Their "abnormality" is their willingness to consecrate their entire lives and persons to God.

68 posted on 05/16/2016 1:16:37 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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