Cardinal Law's Aide Told Victim: "Sex Acts by Priest Are Expressions of Affection"

Boston Globe ^ | 4/12/02 | Sacha Pfeiffer

[Campion]

The problem is priests molesting children, pedophiles

Virtually all of the victims are teenage boys. One of the major perpetrators participated in the meeting which led to the founding of NAMBLA. If you think this has nothing to do with homosexuality, I have some swampland to sell you in Florida.

[ArrogantBustard]

The problem is priests molesting children, pedophiles teenager boys, pederasts otherwise known as homosexual chickenhawks. There, much more accurate.

[eastsider]

The problem is priests molesting children, pedophiles, and the priests who abet them. Equating that with homosexuality is sloppy thinking at best.

I respectfully disagree. The bulk of the problem seems to be taking sexual advantage of post-pubescent boys -- ephebophilia. Unlike pedophilia, which has not been shown to have homosexual roots, ephebophilia has been linked to homosexuality.

[RobbyS]

The problem is priests molesting children, pedophiles, and the priests who abet them. Equating that with homosexuality is sloppy thinking at best

Most of these guys were hitting on BOYS. Homosexuals prefer boys to men when they can get them, just as rakes prefer virgins to women. In classical Greece, wehere pederasty was the norm, it was thought unseemly to have sex with other males who were able to grow beards. Alcibades, a student of Socrates, and one of his brightest, was thought to be dissolute because he did not observe age limits.

[Belial]

All of these molesters are prolife. Using your logic, you can see how all prolifers are pedophiles lying in ambush.

[Renatus]

The Catholic Church is about truth, not about the moral goodness of its ministers. Any church that bases its claim to worthiness on the moral goodness of its ministers is building on mud and shifting sand.

Romulus, you hit the nail right on the head! Thanks.

[RobbyS]

As Father Greeley has pointed out, those in the priesthood whom he dubbed the "Lavender Mafia" have been fostering this notion of pedophilia.

[eastsider]

And the liberal media serves up the lie with relish.

[Belial]

Homosexuals prefer boys to men when they can get them

You've been brainwashed by fundie propaganda.

You realize there's a significant number of hetero guys that would love nothing better than to sleep with a 16year old Catholic schoolgirl?

Conversely, how many lesbian nuns have you heard about molesting little girls? It's a male problem more than a homosexual problem.

[Belial]

Unlike pedophilia, which has not been shown to have homosexual roots, ephebophilia has been linked to homosexuality.

Male homosexuals or female homosexuals I wonder?

[Renatus]

As Father Greeley has pointed out, those in the priesthood whom he dubbed the "Lavender Mafia" have been fostering this notion of pedophilia.

Using Father Greeley as one of your authorities certainly does absolutely nothing to enhance your own credibility.

[eastsider]

Take a wild guess.

[sinkspur]

Why can't you give Cardinal Law the benefit of the doubt because you know the media hates him because he is Pro-Life?

Do you doubt the Archdiocese's own documents, which attorneys had to pry out of Law's hands, which state that Law transferred the co-founder of NAMBLA from parish to parish in Boston, then gave him a moral CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH in a letter to a diocese in California?

I say thank God for the media in this case. Law is a criminal and your defense of him is outrageous.

What the hell good does it do for the pro-life movement to leave a pederast conspirator in place? Nobody will ever believe another word Law says.

[Saundra Duffy]

Give him the BOOT - Cardinal or no. For victory & freedom!!!

[Campion]

All of these molesters are prolife. Using your logic, you can see how all prolifers are pedophiles lying in ambush.

Sodomy is not prolife, in fact, it's intrinsically antilife. If you don't understand that, you don't understand enough to make any of your comments worth reading.

[sinkspur]

Using Father Greeley as one of your authorities certainly does absolutely nothing to enhance your own credibility.

Greeley correctly forecast the current pederast crisis back in 1983 and said, at that time, that the seminaries were overrun by homosexuals.

In this case, Greeley was correct, like it or not.