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To: huckfillary

Pedophiles are almost always married men (ex: Jerry Sandusky). A married priesthood doesn’t mean there won’t be scandals involving children.


89 posted on 07/21/2013 5:36:28 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Varda

Does Scripture speak highly of marriage, or lowly of marriage? Sounds like you have little regard for marriage.


91 posted on 07/21/2013 6:44:24 AM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: Varda
Dear Varda,

Do you have a citation for your assertion that, “Pedophiles are almost always married men...”?

In 10 minutes of googling, the only hard statistic I came up with on the question of the marital status of molesters is that 44% of convicted molesters either are or have been married.

http://theweek.com/article/index/221730/pedophilia-a-guide-to-the-disorder

It does say that the vast majority of molesters have or have had sexual relationships with adults, but that's wildly different from saying that the vast majority of molesters are married men.

Other sources either don't give a precise statistic for this category (currently or formerly married men), or lump it in with other categories, or deal with the question so sloppily as to deserve to be ignored.


sitetest

93 posted on 07/21/2013 7:10:00 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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