[metmom]

You know nothing of the particulars of this situation. The city of Philadelphia--you remember, those fine people who are attempting to evict the Boy Scouts from their headquarters for not allowing homosexual scout masters--have been after the Church for years, using these accusations as a hammer.

THE BOY SCOUTS have been doing a better job of protecting their boys than the Catholic church has. See? It can be done.

What an indictment against the Catholic church.

[count-your-change]

For those who would blame the messenger or Vatican II I would refer them to Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah.

It's subject matter was sodomy (in its broadest definition) amongst the Catholic priests. That such is hardly a recent phenomenon is the fact that this book was finished in about 1049.

More on the book and its contents can be found online.

[Antoninus]

THE BOY SCOUTS have been doing a better job of protecting their boys than the Catholic church has. See? It can be done. What an indictment against the Catholic church.

Not at all. The Scouts have exactly the same problem: Scouting sex abuse cases

Given this, will you now tar and slander every boy scout, scout leader, and the institution as a whole? I won't.

The Boy Scouts of America are under exactly the same pressure as the Catholic Church to be "homosexual friendly". If you have been following the situation in Philadelphia, where the city government is attempting to force them to accept homosexuals, you would know that.

Both the Catholic Church and the Scouts are resisting but both are also huge and made up of fallible men who are subject to weakness, foolishness, and sin. Rather than attacking us, you should be encouraging us to keep up the good fight against the homosexuals in clerical roles and have the awareness to recognize who the true Enemy is in this fight.