Posted on 04/01/2010 12:35:40 PM PDT by topher
Don’t forget the 15-year old runnaway in San Francisco.
Absolutely.
Bingo!
To the Catholic bashers around here (you know who you are): How do you like the leftist/socialist/fascist company you’re keeping? Isn’t it nice to be on the same side of an issue as zero and his ilk? /hurl
In nearly 16% of the cases, school officials delayed or tried to cover up the sexual molestations.
““We have scant data on incidence and even less on descriptions of predators”
So where’d they get the 9.6%?
“When it happens at school they either are fired and or go to jail. Not transferred to another school where...”
Schools were frequently covering for their teachers prior to the 1990s. More publicity about the problem and the covering up by the schools resulted in changes.
And in addition to that,the Catholic Church has deep pockets. It is an extremely enticing target for the many law firms and lawyers whose continued existence is dependent on drumming up victims and suing for lots of money most of which goes to the firms. In some cases they have sued again and again.
Everything,at least in this country,with a few exceptions,was dealt with by 2002.At that time the big problem turned out to be that the Church had gone soft on their policy of not ordaining homosexuals.
Initially the headlines shrieked out "pedophile priests" and the country was aghast. When the facts emerged there was a problem indeed and it did involve sex and it was tawdry,sinful,ugly and wrong. However,it was also clear that the problem was not so much one of mentally,sick pedophile priests but instead they were manipulative homosexual priests doing business as usual in the homosexual community. What was learned was there is a big difference between men attracted to children {pedophiles} and men attracted to post pubescent males {ephebophilia}.
According to the research firm the Church had hired,80% of all the sexual activity by priests was perpetrated by homosexual priests. The others were abuses against females/women and then pedophiles.
I would conjecture that before this became too common knowledge,the MSM which has a load of homosexual journalists,pundits,editors,commentators in concert with some of their catholic counterparts in the clergy and aided and abetted by infiltrators who had been in position to implode the Church for quite a while let things slide rather than risk exposure to the general public.
So they pulled in their fangs and waited for a new opportunity,and here we are with many people mightily upset about the turn this country has taken toward a more controlled society and others upset and frightened about the dreary economy,what better way to divert attention and maybe even pick up some more money than to have at the Church again.
Diabolic?
If you care to look into it, you can scan your eyes across the Web results here (Link) for hundreds and hundreds of examples.
Teacher abuse is definitely a problem ... but, in fairness, teachers are typically removed from classes pretty quickly, fired as quickly as union rules will allow, their crimes are made public and scrutinzed in the media, and some are prosecuted.
One would hope that members of the Body of Christ would do better than they have ... certainly at least as well as public schools at discipling those that are caught. Shuffling people around is not good enough. Excommunication and firing are a minimum.
SnakeDoc
Have you noticd they are always absent on threads like this???!!!!!!
No, not at all but nice try. Here, let me trace the conversation for you.
You said: Even IF this is true, there is still one big difference. When it happens at school they either are fired and or go to jail. Not transferred to another school where they can do it again.
You did say that, didn't you?
I cited several instances that disproved the point you were trying to make.
Then you said: So what you are saying is, forget the pervert priest, hell, everyone is doing this.
And, of course, if you look at my post, I never stated any sort of opinion about priests abusing children even though you have unsuccessfully tried to make it appear that way.
All abuse in any setting is wrong and the abusers need to be taken out of situations where they can abuse others. I take offense at you trying to accuse me of something I didn't do.
Well. I was just going to read the responses and move along.
However, our children are not Right or Left, they’re just our children and they’re being abused by people they have been told to trust.
Hiding behind a religion to abuse children is somehow more disgusting than having it done by a teacher or coach.
No one is hiding behind religion to abuse children, these cases that they are talking about happened decades ago and the Catholic Church has taken steps to prevent it ever happening again. They do it by education and openness. To do anything but go to Mass you must have a background check and attend several classes.
The deal with the public schools goes on as we speak and I don’t hear the NYTs saying a word, do you?
LOL!
Great response!
The priest abuse issue is 80% political. It broke in Massachusetts just before the courts and Romney legalized homosexual marriage. I don’t imagine that it was coincidence that the power of the church in MA was given a serious whack right at that opportune time.
The Roman Catholic Church, being global, and having definite right-wrong standards, is a threat to global socialism with the attendant moral relativism the left requires- this is Orwell’s Doublethink.
So they become a target.
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