Also, a common misconception is the idea that these church pedophiles are homosexual. This is demonstrably wrong. The VAST majority of pedophiles have been demonstrated to be completely heterosexual in all other activities.
A worse misconception is to call these homosexual predators pedophiles.
Over 95% of the reported cases in the recent weeks were about priests and teenage boys.
Most of these cases have involved POST PUBESCENT TEENAGE YOUNG MEN!
When you are molesting 8 year olds, it is pedophilia. When you do as most of the scandal priest have done and seduced 15 and 16 year olds, that isn't pedophilia, its "chicken hawking."
What a pathetically tendentious statement. If "God's work" is doing one day of work a week, having closets full of fashionable street clothes, going out to eat every night and allowing parish life to fall in desuetude, then sodomites are indeed perfect candidates.
If imitating Christ and teaching others to do so through proclamation and personal example is God's work however, then sodomites are singularly ill-suited to the job.
Also, a common misconception is the idea that these church pedophiles are homosexual.
It's not a misconception - it's an accurate analysis. All of the perverts exposed in the past few weeks have been accused of having sex with 16 and 17 year old boys - targets way too old for pedophiles.
This is demonstrably wrong.
If it's demonstrably wrong, then demonstrate it with facts. The facts are actually against you. If desiring and pursuing sex with teenage boys is pedophilia, then all homosexuals are by definition pedophiles.
The VAST majority of pedophiles have been demonstrated to be completely heterosexual in all other activities.
Not really. First of all, many pedophiles don't have any other sexual activity. There was the case of the "happily married" youth group leader who was a pedophile. His wife later pointed out that he had never consummated their marriage and that she believed him to be asexual.
Of the ones who do, the pedophiles who target boys are homosexuals. And boys are the majority of molestation victims in cases that are not incestuous. Virtually every adult who targets prepubescent children for victimization is a homosexual.
Why is this? Because homosexuals and pedophiles are deeply linked - they have separated sexuality entirely from procreation in their minds. Their goal is self-gratification, not the creation of new life. Both forms of perversion are marked by a profound sterility.
Well, let's unpack that a little.
1. What do you mean by the statement that pedophiles are "completely heterosexual in all other activities?" What other activities matter? Don't sexual activites define sexual orientation? Do you mean to say that men who enjoy molesting young boys also have sex with women? What about priests whose sole sexual activities are with young boys?
2. While we're on the topic of "the VAST majority of pedophiles" being otherwise heterosexual, what relevance do these statistics have to the current crisis in the Catholic Church? Isn't it more relevant to examine the victims and criminals there? If most men are shorter than 6'0 tall, does that mean a taller man isn't a man?
3. You say that "the idea that these church pedophiles are homosexual" is "demonstrably wrong." Aren't most of these victims boys? Aren't all of these priests men? Doesn't "homosexual" mean one who is attracted to members of the same gender?
Excuse me?
Do you think Eric Liddle (Chariots of Fire) who died in prison in China wasn't compassionate? (never mind that the actor who portrayed him died of AIDS)
Do you think Jim Elliott who was speared to death by the Auca Indians wasn't compassionate? When he was 22 he wrote in his journal "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep for what he cannot lose."
Do you think Stuart Royster who died from a poisoness snake bite in the jungles of Columbia wasn't compassionate?
Giving yourself in a life of service to the God of the Ages is one of the most masculine things a man can do.