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To: MadAnthony1776

Nope.

First off, a homosexual predator won't "solve his problem" by marrying a woman.

Secondly, you and I both know that married clerics also hop into adultery quite regularly.

It's a matter of self-control, just like you tell your children (I hope...)


25 posted on 12/14/2004 5:17:37 AM PST by ninenot (Minister of Membership, TomasTorquemadaGentlemen'sClub)
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To: ninenot

Agreed, I didn't mean to imply they don't. I just feel it's harder to offer guidance to married couples when you don't have an understanding of the problems married couples face. It be like me trying to teach someone something that I'd not had experience in. You can possibly do it to a degree but not quite as well as if you'd had experience.


34 posted on 12/14/2004 5:32:23 AM PST by MadAnthony1776
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To: ninenot

I can point out many a pastor who's fooled around with married women.... And they are in faiths that allow their ministers and Pastors to marry.

Marriage will not end sexual perversion... it might open the career path to priesthood for folks who have never considered it before, but in terms of it ending sexual picadillos... hardly. A predatory pedophile is a predatory pedaphile, and while it may not be PC, the bulk of predatory pedophiles are ineed homosexual, at least in the studies I have seen on the subject. These sorts of people will ALWAYS be attracted to positions where they have power and/or access to youngsters (preferably both). Which is exactly why the Boy Scouts has to be ALWAYS on its guard against homosexuals trying to get into their midst and have access to the kids. It is also why the Church must have an absolutely no tolerance of homosexuality in its ranks (above and beyond the spiritual view of the practice), its simply common sense.

Predatory pedophiles are always going try to get jobs in schools, day cares, churches, summer camps, etc. A predator must have access to their prey and these positions offer this to them, not only access, but also power over their victims as well.

Marriage will not solve the predatory pedophile issue in the church. Understanding that while homosexuals are children of God, and deserve our prayers and frankly pity for their rejection of him and his teachings, that compassion and pity does not extend so far as to dillude ourselves that they are to be trusted around children, regardless of how nice they may be.


37 posted on 12/14/2004 5:34:59 AM PST by HamiltonJay ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
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