[Polycarp]

If people believe that an 18 year old who has sex with a 14 year old boy should be punished more harshly than a 18 year old who has sex with a 14 year old girl, they should just be upfront and say it.

OK, I'll be up front about it. Homosexual molestation is a crime that cries out to God for justice. It IS worse than heterosexual rape.

If an 18 year old man rapes my 14 year old daughter, I'll only castrate the bastard and send him to jail for Bubba's enjoyment.

If an 18 year old man homosexually molests my 14 year old son, I'll kill him. Probably with a Louisville Slugger. And if any lawman reads my posts here, they can argue at my trial that it was premeditated.

Happy now? Yes, homosexual molestion is a far more grave violation than heterosexual rape. Both are reprehensible! But homosexual molestation is a crime against the law and the Natural Law.

That's why there has been such an outcry against the sex scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. If the offenses had only been heterosexual in nature, the headlines would not have been as big or lasted as long.

But they were not. They were homosexual molestations of teenage boys, a far greater offense in the eyes of thinking sane Americans.

[tdadams]

They were homosexual molestations of teenage boys, a far greater offense in the eyes of thinking sane Americans.

That statement itself is utterly offensive to anyone who's had a teenage daughter molested. You're distorted.

[bvw]

That's also the case in Jewish law, Witness Lot's offering his two daughters to be raped by the crowd in Sodom rather than the male guests he had.

[sinkspur]

That's why there has been such an outcry against the sex scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. If the offenses had only been heterosexual in nature, the headlines would not have been as big or lasted as long.

Because the priests would have been shown the door immediately.

It was not the nature of the offenses that has caused the scandal (because those offenses exist in other institutions as well), but the cover-up of those scandals by the bishops, and the willingness to tolerate the presence in the priesthood of child molesters.

That was the scandal.

If the bishops of the Catholic Church had handled homosexual molestation the way they handle a cleric who strays with a woman, there would be no scandal.

We know, of course, that those wayward priests are dismissed immediately, and no bishop ever fights to retain a priest who's sinned with a female.

[AndyJackson]

It IS worse than heterosexual rape

Not being female, I think that neither you nor I are in a position to judge. Of all of the horrors of homosexual molestation, however, one consequence is that you or I or society are not potontially burdened by the cost of raising an unwanted child. Otherwise, I would think the horrors are pretty much the same unless you subscribe to the theory that women find rape ejoyable, which by all accounts they do not.