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To: NYer

I left ministry in part because of such hypocracies (which I wearied of fighting) - and neither I nor most others are saying that sexual/erotic sins do not exist at all among married clergy.

I say that the temptations are EXACERBATED and COMPLICATED by the compulsory, extra-Biblical vow of celibacy, coupled with the added extensive homoerotic dimension.

I refuse to equate a male pastor seducing a post-pubescent girl with a male priest seducing a pre-pubescent boy. Both are sins, but the added perversion of the victim being a same-sex young child matters!

The problem in the Catholic church is worse.

Your argument is a straw man.


38 posted on 02/11/2019 12:21:56 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy
Both are sins, but the added perversion of the victim being a same-sex young child matters!

Both cases are grave sin and neither has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
49 posted on 02/11/2019 3:50:47 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: YogicCowboy

“I refuse to equate a male pastor seducing a post-pubescent girl with a male priest seducing a pre-pubescent boy.”

You seem to assume that pedophilia was the biggest part of the problem. Far and away the majority of the crimes were committed against post-pubescent boys.


77 posted on 02/11/2019 10:38:07 PM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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