Posted on 12/18/2002 11:00:51 AM PST by zingzang
True, and it's mainly due to the church prefering to cover up abuse rather than get these monsters put away for good. All of their PR spin will result in people leaving the church or avoiding it altogether.
Kinsey reported that those who engaged in homosexuality were exceptionally sexually flexible, intensely sexualized, and highly venturesome. Kinsey's published data reveal that homosexuals are much more willing to "try it" with an animal, a child, a man, many women, or for that matter "something completely different."
That's exactly what happened in the Catholic Church.
Actually, the so-called "gay rights" movement would love to rid itself of the association with the above mentioned group. They certainly are not welcomed.
I know a lot of good and holy Catholic people who cannot bear to go to Church right now - and who are ashamed, shocked and horrified at the homosexual abuse of so many teenage boys.
There are many, many Christians who protest the sexualization of children at all ages. I am one of them. But the scandal in the Catholic Church is virtually all homosexual.
Homosexuals are not of one mind
HOMOSEXUALITY: A POLITICAL MASK FOR PROMISCUITY: A PSYCHIATRIST REVIEWS THE DATA
He presented a retired priest and psychotherapist named Richard Sipe, who estimated that 30 percent of Catholic priests are gay. Thats a high number. But Sipe didnt want them kicked out. In fact, he told Pitts that a ban on homosexuals in the priesthood would be "like a gay bar refusing to serve homosexual patrons. It doesnt make any sense." This has got to be one of the strangest analogies ever offered in defense of homosexuals as priests. His rationale is that since gay bars serve gays, the church should keep its homosexual priests. But the church is not supposed to be an arm of the homosexual movement. |
Courage, an apostolate of the Roman Catholic Church, ministers to those with same-sex attractions and their loved ones. We have been endorsed by the Pontifical Council for the Family.
Can you blame them? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/12/60II/main511967.shtml
Homosexuality and child molestation: the link, the likelihood, the lasting effects
"... Furthermore, some suggest that public disavowal of NAMBLA by homosexual groups is a smokescreen. David Thorstad, a founding member of NAMBLA and former president of New Yorks Gay Activists Alliance, says homosexual activists have supressed pedophilia in order to sanitize the image of homosexuality to facilitate its entrance into the social mainstream...."
The Overhauling of Straight America
"... (2) Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers. In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined be reflex to assume the role of protector. If gays are presented, instead, as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidly nonconformist and deviant lifestyle, they are more likely to be seem as a public menace that justifies resistance and oppression. For that reason, we must forego the temptation to strut our gay pride publicly when it conflicts with the Gay Victim image. And we must walk the fine line between impressing straights with our great numbers, on the one hand, and sparking their hostile paranoia -- They are all around us! -- on the other.
A media campaign to promote the Gay Victim image should make use of symbols which reduce the mainstreams sense of threat, which lower its guard, and which enhance the plausibility of victimization. In practical terms, this means that jaunty mustachioed musclemen would keep a very low profile in gay commercials and other public presentation, while sympathetic figures of nice young people, old people, and attractive women would be featured. (It almost goes without saying that groups on the farthest margin of acceptability, such as NAMBLA, must play no part at all in such a campaign; suspected child-molesters will never look like victims).
Now, there are two different messages about the Gay Victim that are worth communicating. First, the mainstream should be told that gays are victims of fate, in the sense that most never had a choice to accept or reject their sexual preference. The message must read: As far as gays can tell, they were born gay, just as you were born heterosexual or white or black or bright or athletic. Nobody ever tricked or seduced them; they never made a choice, and are not morally blameworthy. What they do isnt willfully contrary -- its only natural for them. This twist of fate could as easily have happened to you!..."
(Also see: What Homosexuals Say About Homosexuals - Is This Gay Behavior Sick?)
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