It’s pyschological term semantics, I can’t stand the people who do what you say.
If you are attracted to members of the same sex, no matter what age, it’s a homosexual attraction.
If they are young kids it’s also pedophilia, it’s sexual attraction to a child.
What gender you’re attracted to is a distinction, and what age you are attracted to is a separate distinction.
Well, I for one, am one who’s led the charge on pointing out that the perpetrators are not truly pedophiles, because their victims are post-pubescent. But they are still boys.
The intent in this charge is not to excuse the priests, as if their crimes are any less heinous, but to give lie to the false claims by the media that this has nothing to do with homosexuals. Rather, it has everything to do with homosexuals, and an extremely urgent requirement of reform is to man up to political-correctness crowd and keep those with disordered sexuality out of the priesthood.
Personally, I believe that the crisis stems from three very politically incorrect facts:
1. The celibate life of a priest is a very dangerous environment for those with dysfunctional sexuality.
2. Far too many with disordered sexuality sought out the priesthood precisely because of their disorders, believing that celibacy would render their dysfunctions moot.
3. A major cause of the perpetuation of abuse was that the church looked to secular “experts,” such as civil lawyers and psychologists, instead of canonical lawyers, confessors, and even exorcists. Civil lawyers’ purposes were to avoid lost investment, and psychologists’ purposes was rehab; the church’s purpose should have been to remove offenders from their ministry (cf. Nicene Council), THEN incarcerate the guilty, THEN spiritually assist the victims and ALL THE WHILE looking to spiritual combat to save the souls of the scandalized and yes, the perpetrators.
Well, I for one, am one who’s led the charge on pointing out that the perpetrators are not truly pedophiles, because their victims are post-pubescent. But they are still boys.
The intent in this charge is not to excuse the priests, as if their crimes are any less heinous, but to give lie to the false claims by the media that this has nothing to do with homosexuals. Rather, it has everything to do with homosexuals, and an extremely urgent requirement of reform is to man up to political-correctness crowd and keep those with disordered sexuality out of the priesthood.
Personally, I believe that the crisis stems from three very politically incorrect facts:
1. The celibate life of a priest is a very dangerous environment for those with dysfunctional sexuality.
2. Far too many with disordered sexuality sought out the priesthood precisely because of their disorders, believing that celibacy would render their dysfunctions moot.
3. A major cause of the perpetuation of abuse was that the church looked to secular “experts,” such as civil lawyers and psychologists, instead of canonical lawyers, confessors, and even exorcists. Civil lawyers’ purposes were to avoid lost investment, and psychologists’ purposes was rehab; the church’s purpose should have been to remove offenders from their ministry (cf. Nicene Council), THEN incarcerate the guilty, THEN spiritually assist the victims and ALL THE WHILE looking to spiritual combat to save the souls of the scandalized and yes, the perpetrators.