Abuse can happen anywhere. It’s up to people to use common sense. Problem is, common sense is not very common at all.
I call B.S. on this statistic.
During the recent visit to the USA by Pope Benedict XVI, he spoke about the priest-sexual abuse problem. After apologizing for it, he also mentioned that fact that the entire society is permiated with sexual context and references, so as to seduce many in society into illicit sexual conduct. Now, those were not his exact words, but it comes close. His meaning was clear. If we, as a society, continue to allow such excess in our news media, our entertainment, music, movies, etc., then we ought not be surprised when people act out their fantacies on children.
This article is instructive as it points out the fact that such misbehavior and outright abuse is not confined to the Catholic priesthood.
Read your newspaper, and on a daily basis there are reports of teenagers being abused by teachers in the public school system.
PC demands we not speak the truth about the problem of the prietly abuses, which is the growth of homosexuals in the priesthood, and the overwhelming number of the cases being abuse against boys between 12-18 years of age. That of course serves two purposes: First, it protects the homosexual connection from being studied further - and thus offers the gay lobby a reason to gripe when the RC Church instructs the seminaries to screen out homosexuals, and second, it prevents the Boy Scouts from using these terrible facts in defense of their reasonable rule on not allowing homosexuals to be troop leaders.
Ordinary good people must speak out on this and defend the Boy Scouts.
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How would YOU categorize this thread?
Pro Roman Catholic?
Anti Roman Catholic?
Neutral Roman Catholic and Anti Pedophile?
Neutral Roman Catholic and Pro Pedophile?
Generic Christian?
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