“In either case, by the law - these were children. That is clear, and the crimes remain. Is a 7 year boy old more of a victim of rape by a priest than a 11 or 13 year old boy?”
You said:
There are differences between sex acts with seven year olds and sex acts with seventeen year olds. But that's not the point.
As Ronald Reagan said, "There you go again!"
I asked you if the case was sexual rape of a 11 or 13 year old boy - and you bumped it up to 17 in your answer.
Why did you do that? I'll tell you why - you are attempting to spin this and to soften the blow of the reality of this tragedy. You are trying to move the age up to a degree that you think makes it more of an adult on "adult" encounter.
When I first responded to you, I objected to your attempt to minimize this tragedy.
Sadly, you are continuing to do so.
All you had to do was admit there were more than "a few" priest who had done this horrible thing against children. But at every turn, you try and change direction, draw fences around this or that, or make it appear that the rape of child of "X" age is better than a child of "Y" age.
Why are doing that?
As to the rest of your response that the church acted swiftly, appropriately, and with justice to this scandal - the facts are not on your side. Hundreds of law suits and billions of dollars speak to that. So do thousands of news articles, interviews, and books on the subjects.
Try reading just this:
Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Meets the Civil Law
The tragedy of what happened has a very human face to me. I am appalled by your attempts to minimize it. You may post back to me and say "But I am not trying to minimize it." Yes - you are.
That's a brazen lie. The Church kept these cases quiet at the suggestion of the mental health professionals involved, often at the behest of the families of the victims, and often at the request and with the assistance of the secular authorities.
A lie? Uggghh. Mental Health professionals urged the victims to not speak out?! What?? Talk about a lie. The church intimidated these victims and their families. This is documented in court records.
You just don't get it. You know, the tears of the abuse victims speak the truth much louder than your attempts to stifle them.
“As Ronald Reagan said, ‘There you go again!’”
When you can lose the insulting attitude, get back to me.
It's clear that you didn't read my first post well, and badly mangled its meaning. Now you wish to distort the meaning of what else I write. If you wish to play that game, at least do it without the insults.
I believe that you were once a Catholic, and no longer practice the Faith?
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