[ppaul]

If the church gets rid of gay priests, everything will be fine.

Well, it's a start.

[Hail Caesar]

Does the gay lobby expect the Church to bend over for them, too? - just like certain GOP RINOs do for homosexuals causes all the time.

[RasterMaster]

"There is a difference between a moral monster like [homosexual molester Father John] Geoghan, who preys upon little children, and does so in a serial fashion, and someone who perhaps under the influence of alcohol engages in an action with a 17- or 16-year-old young woman who returns his affection,"

Proving once again that the author is an idiot. Both are crimes, and hypoteticals to not prove a case. Gays are deviants, just as pedifiles are DEVIANTS...there is no difference.

[Free the USA]

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[Pete]

Well, according to last Friday's New York Times, there are 46,000 Catholic priests in the United States; 30 percent to 50 percent of Catholic seminarians are gay

Houston, we have a problem.

[bluesagewoman]

Really went around the block to come up with this argument.

[Antoninus]

All the whining, complaining articles in the world won't change the simple fact that the vast majority of these cases of sexual abuse involved homosexual attacks.

No ifs, ands, or buts about it, the problem in the Church is the presence of sodomites in the priesthood, seminaries, and hierarchy. Expunge them and 85-90% of this problem goes away.

The Boy Scouts have it right.

[jla]

More propaganda from the homo-apologists.
Adults who sexually molest opposite-sex children are deranged perverts.
Adults who sexually molest same-sex children are deranged, homosexual perverts.

The 'social engineers' are only distressed that their ongoing plan to legitimize homosexuality have suffered a setback.

[Carry_Okie]

Similarly, Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit said this week that "the behavioral scientists are telling us, the sociologists, it's not truly a pedophilia-type problem but a homosexual problem."

So this Cardinal thinks that the Church is to subordinate its moral code to the findings of behavioral scientists as if Man's understanding of Man were superior to God's? As if those scientists weren't fomenting deviancy and making a fortune treating it!

The Church apparently has more serious problems than mere sexual deviancy.

[Cicero]

The liberal media lit this fire, thinking they could control it. Now they will have to suffer the consequences.

[ppaul]

What is so unfortunate, especially now with the wimpy, limpwristed response by the church heirarchy,
is that the world will come to regard the Catholic Church as a haven of child molesters and perverts.
Sad.

[07055]

If the 2,000 cases are spread over a period of 80 percent turnover in the priesthood, or if the number of guilty priests is more like 1,100, or if the percentage of priests who are gay is more like 50 percent, then only about 8 percent of gay priests have committed sexual abuse. According to the Catholic League, that's the rate of pedophilia "in the general adult population."

Here is that bogus 8% figure again. In other words, for every 12 people you meet on the street, one of them is a pedophile.

Yeah, sure.

I don't know what the Catholic League was thinking when they dreamed up that statistic to try to justify the high rate of pedophilia among priests, but I don't believe it for a second.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Interesting that Slate used an illustration depicting a heretic priest being burned at the state, Inquisition-style. The barbarity of some inquisitional sentences came at the hands of the state, and was condemned by the Church. Since the content of Slate is so blatantly pro-big-government, it's fitting that they seek to punish those whom the Religion of Secular Humanism considers to be heretics.

[fporretto]

The homosexual subculture and its defenders will do everything they can to avert the conclusion that the sexual abuse of boys, which, despite Bill Donohue's assertions, occurs at a far higher rate among Catholic clergy than among the ministers of other Christian denominations, are the fruit of homosexuality within the Church, even though the existence of a lavender mafia with particular, enormous influence over seminaries is well established.

The critical factor in the abuses is not human sexuality. Indeed, to be fair, it might not even be homosexuality as such. But only within the Catholic clergy do men of God get such enormous, unsupervised authority over the young -- and only within the Catholic clergy are as many as 25% homosexual. Even if that figure is overstated by a factor of two, that would mean that three times as many priests per capita are homosexual as are secular American men.

Homosexuals, therefore, are attracted to the priesthood in disproportionate numbers. Why? What does it offer that's especially enticing to homosexuals? Couldn't a position of authority over young boys, whose sexuality is in a dynamic, influenceable state, be one of the attractions?

The Church, by insisting that priests be unmarried, has deprived itself of one of the checks on homosexuals entering its ranks. This is not to say that there are no married homosexuals. However, by limiting its candidates to the unmarried, the Church sacrifices a partially effective filter for homosexuality. Also, Protestant ministers rather frequently share pastoral authority and duty with their wives. Continuous spousal supervision thwarts many temptations to sexual sin -- and this is no less true of marriages in which the husband's sexual orientation is divided or concealed. Given the removal of these deterrents, is it really a surprise that homosexual and pederastic impulses are more frequently acted upon by priests than by non-Catholic clergymen, or by secular American men? Given that the Church in America has faced a severe shortage of vocations these past few decades, is it really a surprise that the Church has been slow to root out the problem in the only effective way?

Homosexuals have fought hard specifically to get into positions of authority over young boys: as teachers, as Boy Scout troop leaders, and as priests. If that authority brings them personally nothing they particularly desire, why have they made such an effort?

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[uncbob]

Only part of the article I agree with is the part about the cardinals
If this had been heterosexual priests preying on 12-14 year old girls the cardinals would have covered it up just as much

Heads should roll but won't

[Steve_Seattle]

"30% to 50% gay priests"

I have never seen a figure this high (the figure I have seen most often is 10% to 20%), so I suspect he is using the highest figure he could find to make the percentage of offending gay priests as low as possible. If you use the more common estimates of gay priests, the percentage of sexual offenders jumps to 30-45%, and that is an unacceptably high risk.

[knak]

the author of this article is an idiot

[ThomasMore]

Conservatives don't care that most gay priests don't molest kids.

REAL Catholics are concerned that there ARE homosexual priests, many are active and some abuse children and adolescents. The homosexual condition , especially a practicing homosexual, is TOTALLY contradictory to the sexual moral code. This conservative and Catholic Christian wants ALL the homosexuals out of the priesthood and no more brought in.

[Snuffington]

Mr. Saletan is obviously desperate to protect homosexuality in the priesthood. The main problem with this has nothing to do with the current scandal. It has to do with Catholc doctrine, which declares homosexuality as objectively disordered, and labels all expressions of homosexuality as sinful.

Getting active homosexuals out of the priesthood, and being vigilant in keeping them from entry to the seminaries in the future, is nothing more than a return to Catholic morality within the priesthood.

[KSCITYBOY]

This problem has been around in the church for a long time. The parents may not have talked about it but if you went to a Catholic school like I did chances are the kids may have discussed it. Homosexual's have hidden behind the collar for years. The problem is not that priests can't get married it's that before the gay lifestyle became so open priest hid in the church. If a priest is a practicing homosexual how do you justify keeping him on as a priest, I mean they took a vow to abstain from sex. 99% of these cases will prove out to be priests molesting young boys, this tells me that homosexual priests are a danger to young boys. If the church expects to survive in America it had better get rid of these priests ASAP.