Posted on 04/22/2002 6:40:37 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
Homosexuals start to attack on Catholic Priest Molestation Crisis.
1) Action Alert: Controversy In The Catholic Church -- GLAAD/HRC
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Hey, better late than never.
On Monday (4/15/02, item #1) I reported that the rash of articles on abuse by Priests had the potential of causing a huge backlash against the gay community, since many news outlets were giving the impression, through their coverage, that when gays are in positions of authority with children, abuse is the result.
Yesterday, I sent out the NGLTF press release on the subject (4/18/02, item #3). As I had written yesterday, in private correspondence with other activists, we were rather alarmed that our glbt advocacy groups had not spoken out against the media sensationalizing of this story. The result was more and more articles that seemed to equate homosexuality with pedophilia.
As I wrote yesterday, the NGLTF statement was a start. It apparently motivated GLAAD and HRC to finally encourage action. I say that, because in the latter part of their Action Alert they direct people to the NGLTF release. There may have been behind-the-scens activity going on, but the community needed to know that this was being addressed. And we needed to hear public statements encouraging the community to combat anti-glbt reporting.
Here is that GLAAD/HRC Action Alert. It is useful in that it encourages direct action and gives useful steps on what action to take and how to correctly respond. I encourage you to go to the website links for reference material to use in your correspondence with media outlets. Please distribute widely. -- Scott
GLAAD/HRC Action Alert
April 19, 2002
CONTROVERSY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The increasing number of allegations and cases of sexual abuse of children and minors by Catholic priests has engulfed the Church in controversy and is being discussed daily in newspapers, magazines, and on talk radio programs and cable news outlets. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) have received numerous reports from throughout the country about commentators and spokespeople linking homosexuality to pedophilia and sexual abuse of minors. In some cases increasingly inflammatory rhetoric is being used to characterize this crisis as a "homosexual problem."
As this controversy continues to grow, HRC and GLAAD want to make sure that our members and GLBT community leaders have some research and action steps readily available that can be used in responding to anti-gay rhetoric and commentary where necessary and appropriate.
GLAAD's Web site includes "Resources for Covering the Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Crisis," which includes suggestions for fair, accurate and inclusive reporting; a list of contact information for media spokespeople and resources; and an archive of recent news and opinion coverage of the story. HRC has developed a fact sheet of bullet points, research citations, and expert opinions that clearly debunk the myth that gay men and lesbians are more likely to engage in sexual abuse of children and minors. Dignity/USA, the nation's oldest and largest organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Catholics, also has useful information on its Web site.
GLAAD's Resources for Covering the Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Crisis:
http://www.glaad.org/org/relations/reference/index.html
HRC's Fact Sheet on Homosexuality and Child Abuse:
http://hrc.grassroots.com/family/soandchildabusefact
Dignity/USA
http://www.dignityusa.org
TAKE ACTION:
If you hear a news outlet, talk program or spokesperson try to make a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia or charge that gay men are inclined toward sexual abuse of minors, please consider doing the following:
1. Please express your opinions to the outlet directly.
2. Inform the reporter, editor or host of the distinction between healthy adult sexual orientations -- gay, straight or bisexual -- and any tendency to sexually abuse minors. Since it began reaching out to journalists on this issue earlier in the year, GLAAD has found that reporters who may not be conscious of this distinction are receptive to information that debunks this long-perpetuated myth.
3. Include in your response that any and all sexual contact between adults and children of any age is wrong and should be punished.
4. Use the resources from GLAAD and HRC to refute charges that sexual abuse of minors is in any way reflective of gay life, identity or sexual orientation.
5. E-mail or call GLAAD with the name of the news program or person that you spoke to so that we may track the stories. When possible, please copy GLAAD and HRC on your correspondence at glaad@glaad.org and field@hrc.org.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
http://www.ngltf.org/news/release.cfm?releaseID=449
Posted on 4/21/02 8:24 PM Eastern by Dr. Brian Kopp
Axiom 2.
Unchecked dissent since Vatican II allowed homosexual priests to abuse our children.
I make these statements in light of efforts by pro-homosexual groups to keep these axioms from the public, realizing that the truth is getting out that there is a direct correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia. Reference the following from The Catholic Education Resource Center Website (see this FR Thread)regarding a myth about priestly pedophilia.
Myth: Homosexuality isn't connected to pedophilia.
This is plainly false. Homosexuals are three times as likely to be pedophiles as heterosexual men. Although exclusive pedophilia (adult attraction to prepubescent children) is an extreme and rare phenomenon, one third of homosexual men are attracted to teenage boys (Jenkins, Priests and Pedophilia). The seduction of teenage boys by homosexual men is a well-documented phenomenon. This form of deviant behavior is the most common type of clerical abuse and is directly connected to homosexual behavior.
As Michael Rose shows in his upcoming book, Goodbye! Good Men, there's an active homosexual sub-culture within the Church. This is due to several factors. 1)The Church's confusion in the wake of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, 2)the tumult following the Second Vatican Council, 3)and the greater approval of homosexual behavior in the culture at large created an environment in which active homosexual men were admitted to and tolerated in the priesthood.
The Church also came to rely more on the psychiatric profession for screening candidates and for treating those priests identified as having problems. In 1973, the American Psychological Association changed its characterization of homosexuality as an objectively disordered orientation and removed it from the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual IV (Nicolosi, J., 1991, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality, 1991; Diamond, E., et. al., Homosexuality and Hope, unpublished CMA document). The treatment of deviant sexual behaviors followed suit.
While the Church's approach to those who struggle with homosexual attractions has been compassionate, she has been consistent in maintaining the view that homosexuality is objectively disordered and that marriage between a man and woman is the proper context for sexual activity.
When you openly embrace homosexuality, such as some of our seminaries did, the results that we're seeing in the daily news can be expected, which brings us to the third and most important axiom.
Axiom 3.
Knowingly ordaining men inclined to homosexuality to the priesthood is sacrilegious blasphemy because these individuals openly flaunt the teachings of Christ, and as such, are not qualified to be acting as an "alter Christus, in persona Christi" (another Christ, in the person of Christ), which is what a consecrated Catholic priest is supposed to do.
What kind of an example are we giving to the Faithful by a violation of axiom 3? Anyone needing to spend longer than a millisecond answering this question is NOT Catholic.
These are some thoughts a friend here in my diocese shared with me this weekend. This friend corroborated with Michael Rose regarding the pro-homosexual psychologist who does the intake interviews for our seminarians. I think his comments here are worth consideration.
1 posted on 4/21/02 8:24 PM Eastern by Dr. Brian Kopp
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This does not serve the anti-celibacy, pro-homosexual agenda of the mainstream media. Homosexuals are not interested in marrying women. Thus the need to refocus the sheeple (and the homosexual activists will be supplying the necessary propaganda, as noted above):
Expect to see a subtle but definite shift in media tactics to recast this as a genderless crisis, ie, expect many more reports on heterosexual sins to cloud the clarity seeping into the grassroots understanding that this is indeed a homosexual chickenhawk problem, at least in the western church.
The people who are threatening to leave the Church because of this scandal, or to stop putting money in the collection plate, are mostly already on the fringe of the Church, with uncertain faith, who probably don't attend Mass regularly anyway.
Basically, the media establishment is trying to blame traditional, "conservative" forces in the Church for problems that are almost entirely due to liberal dissenters, who have pushed for loosening up the rules in the seminaries. If the bishops failed to control the situation earlier, it was not because they were following any Catholic principles. It was mostly because they feared offending the very same liberal press that is attacking them now. If this crisis results in the bishops tightening up sexual morality in their dioceses, that is all to the good. After all, it's what the Church already teaches and has always taught.
Even beneath the homosexual activity are deeper problems I feel. The lack of fidelity to vows, to the Pope, to the Magisterium ...
To be honest, I believe there is satanic activity behind this homosexual infiltration of the Church. Friends tell me Windswept House put me onto this line of thinking, but honestly I have thought this since the first time I went to Mass to discover it was a "clown mass". Seeing that abomination through the Prayers of the Faithful (I left at that point), I knew I was looking at the saccharine face of satan.
When Tabernacles began to be moved into broom closets, I was dead certain that the priest's chair in place of the Tabernacle was in fact the abomination that makes desolate.
Nonetheless there have been promises given by the Lord to his saints. Wasn't it St. John Bosco who saw the vision of the Holy Father steering the Church as a boat in raging waters, steering it to safety between the twin pillars of the Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary?
I don't know how many cases involve homosexuals, but many of the accused have openly acknowledged that they are homosexual. I guess the mainstream media will tell us those priests are lying about their sexual orientation.
It's possible that the homosexual lobby, in seeking to cloud the issue, will end up appearing sympathetic to the accused pedophiliacs.
< sarcasm>Remember, homosexuals NEVER do anything wrong < /sarcasm>
Note to the media:
It's the Homosexuals, Stupid!
Sex before 8 - or it's too late! Craige McMillan on how media covers for homosexual child abusers
When it is sex with a minor it is a Homosexual Felony.
When the abuser is a Homosexual Priest it is no less a crime and must be punished.
When the Hierarchy enables Homosexual Felonies they are as guilty as the Abuser,and maybe they are Homosexuals also.
The answer is Purge and Purification of the church.
It sounds like you are speaking only about active homosexuals in this axiom. I think you need to consider another side to this as well.
Admitting to the priesthood those inclined toward the homosexual disorder, even if they have not acted upon this inclination and do not intend to do so, is also a problem. Admitting them to the priesthood places such men in positions of extraordinary temptation, challenging their chastity and endangering their spiritual life. Due to the central role of a priest in the spiritual lives of others, should they find themselves unable to resist their temptations, they are likely to damage or destroy the spiritual lives of many more than themselves alone.
What this leads to is the notion that the Church should not knowingly admit men to the priesthood if they are inclined toward homosexuality, whether or not they intend to act upon these inclinations. That seems to be a taboo conclusion in our modern era, but I think it is the correct one.
There will be a short term crunch if they screen at the seminaries..but it must be done.IMO
Do you think increasing the number of Deacons to take up the slack for a few years will help...manpower is an issue..but the level of homosexuality has become painfully obvious ...(I would vote for married priests ..but an increase in Deacons couls be a good stop gap)
Which still means that most of them aren't!
You forgot to mention that men are more likely to be pedophiles than women.
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