[IIntense]

(i.e., homosexuality in the priesthood)

Are these priests homosexuals or are they pedophiles? Has this distinction been clearly determined? In either case, obviously, this behavior is despicable.

I would like to be able to give a knowledgeable answer to someone who insists they are not homosexuals, but pedophiles.

[tenn2005]

I would like to be able to give a knowledgeable answer to someone who insists they are not homosexuals, but pedophiles.

Actually they are both. Homosexual because they desire same sex relations and pedophiles because they desire these relations with children.

The even greater tradegy is that these perverts are sheltered and protect by the Catholic Church which claims to be the church established by Jesus and recognizes a Pope who claims to be God's spokesman on earth.

[Antoninus]

I would like to be able to give a knowledgeable answer to someone who insists they are not homosexuals, but pedophiles.

Well, that's a pretty silly argument, but I have heard several benighted individuals voice it to try to shift the onus for these crimes away from their obvious homosexual component. If you read the Jay Report, compiled by a group of people who could hardly be called 'conservative' (Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett and Clinton chief-of-staff Leon Panetta being among them), you will find that even they couldn't deny the homosexual nature of the abuse.

When all was said and done, the Jay report found that nearly 85% of the sex abuse cases were homosexual in nature. And of those, the vast majority involved priests with post-pubescent males--teenagers. If you know anything about the "gay" deathstyle, you know that this is classic homosexual behavior.

Right, Sir Elton?