Posted on 07/18/2007 7:30:00 AM PDT by Phil Magnan
Homosexual Clergy Mainly Responsible For Sex Abuse Scandals Contact: Phil Magnan, President, Biblical Family Advocates, 619-962-0659 phil@bfamilyadvocates.com
SAN DIEGO, July 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- There has been many national news accounts over the past few years regarding the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church. Most recently according to the Associated Press, "The nation's largest Catholic archdiocese has settled its abuse cases for $660 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal."
What is not being reported by the news media is that the majority of those who were sexually abused across the nation were most likely adolescent boys, which makes the case that these precious minors were abused by homosexual men. These conclusions can be drawn from a major study that was conducted on behalf of the Catholic Church by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The study covered reported sexual abuse from 1950-2002, which showed that 81% of the overall percentage of victims were boys.
"How can this be possible when homosexuals only make a small percentage of the population? It appears that there are a disproportionate number of homosexual men in the Catholic clergy. If this is the reality, then it still makes the case that having more homosexual clergy spells more danger for children, especially adolescent boys as the study shows that 11-17 year olds were at greatest risk." says Phil Magnan, President of Biblical Family Advocates.
"The idea of allowing homosexuals to be in the clergy not only puts children at risk, but it also degrades the holy stewardship given to clergy to uphold morality and holiness from the pulpit. Many will cast stones at the Catholic Church for allowing the abuse to go on, but there is also a great need for repentance on the part of Protestant denominations. There are many churches which are celebrating homosexual lifestyles, even flaunting them in their congregations, while ignoring the commands of God. These apostate movements within the Christian churches are turning God's grace into license for sin. The wolves that the Apostle Paul warned about seem to have taken many different forms as they fail to protect the flock from error and sin."
Magnan continued, "I now wonder if the general public will consider that children in other institutions like public schools are at higher risk by allowing homosexual teachers to associate with their children? Surely many will cry foul and deny the danger, but try to tell that to the thousands of boys who were sexually abused by homosexual clergy. It is time that society puts away its love affair with tolerance for immorality, understanding that protecting children is the greater form of love."
We are told how this scandal represents a coordinated conspiracy of silence and a collective guilt of the institution.
However every incident of a public school teacher molesting children is taken as a “singular” scandal, it isn’t taken to reflect on the nation’s public school system as whole or even upon a local district or school.
Also, Planned Parenthood’s policy is to ignore laws that required caregivers who “suspect” child abuse to report it to authorities. They enable the adult men impregnating minor girls and shielding the abuse from the girl’s parents.
Know if any school moved a teacher to a different school after they've been accused?
One thing the liberal media has always ignored: homosexuals make up 1-2% of the population yet account for 40-50% of the child molestations. This is an astounding number considering the small total population of homosexuals. So it has always been true that per capita, any single homosexual has a much much higher rate of being a pedophile. It is an integral part of their lifestyle.
Dr. Laura: “It goes on and says ‘Pedophilia and child molestation have zero to do with being gay, homosexual orientation’ and that’s not true. That is not true. How many letters have I read on the air from gay men who acknowledge that a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys.”
- Dr. Laura radio show, August 13
Paging Captain Obvious
The reason why the scandal was taken to reflect poorly on Mother Church was because many high ranking bishops, instead of removing the offending priests, simply transfered them to other parishes, kept them in contact with children, and even covered up their abominations! Not only that, the Holy Father refused to depose such bishops even after learning of their actions. That was the real scandal, not the fact that some priests were abusers.
Put another way, the scandal reflects poorly on the Church because her bishops failed to act, possibly with the blessing of Rome, when it was in their power to stop the abuse.
If you want to apply the analogy to school districts, imagine what would happen if a school superintendant knew that certain teachers were abusers, but failed to remove them, and instead merely moved them to other schools, keeping them in contact with children and doing everything in his power to cover up their actions. If ever something like this came to light, it would cause just as big an outcry as the priest sex abuse scandal, and it would be taken as reflecting on the nation's public school system.
Nearly 90% of the Catholic sex abuse cases in the US involved boys of young men under age 18. Anyone who tells you the problem isn’t a homosexual problem is either stupid or lying to you.
From what I have read, the evidence is overwhelming that there is no correlation between pedophilia and homosexuality. Anecdotally, if you look at the priest abusers who were true pedophiles, like Fathers Geoghan or Shanley in Boston, they abused both boys and girls.
However, there is a definite correlation between ephebophilia and male homosexuality. And that's why in the abuse scandal the overwhelming majority of the post-pubescent victims were boys.
The sex abuse scandal in the Church was mostly one of ephebophilia, not pedophilia, even if the most high profile cases were that of true pedophiles. Hence, since it is well-established that ephebophilia is correlated with male homosexuality, it is undoubtedly true that most of the abuse could have been avoided if the Church had kept homosexuals out out of the priesthood.
On the other hand, since true pedophilia is not related to homosexuality, you cannot use this scandal as grounds to exclude homosexuals from being kindergarden teachers, for example.
I find it very doubtful that a newspaper would give up a huge scoop like a gay cardinal in exchange for anything, much less silence. Silence is the last thing a newspaper wants. Silence doesn't sell papers. Clerical sex scandals send papers flying off the stands.
This is just like the headlines:
“Moslems responsible for most mass bombings.”
“homosexuals make up 1-2%”
No they don’t, they’re 10%! There are as many as there are blacks walking around! They’re very common and normal. Don’t you know that?!?
Opps nevermind. To them they have already had indoctrination that it is the obvious repression of religion that is cuasing the abuse, so the education wouldn't take.
Sorry, but I can’t resist, having been exulted for good writing:
“complement”?
Not quite!
Dr. Laura actually said that and she's still on the airwaves? Well, there's hope for free speech yet.
If ever something like this came to light, it would cause just as big an outcry as the priest sex abuse scandal, and it would be taken as reflecting on the nation’s public school system...
...not likely...the public schools are sacrosanct to the mainstream media, and any visible flaws are explained away as effortlessly as the bishops washed away the priest’s iniquities...after all, as Anne Coulter says, the media thinks every public school teacher washes the feet of the poor in the Ganges River, or something to that effect...besides, there is no shortage of teachers, as there is a dire shortage of priests...what would be a super’s rationale for keeping and reassigning an offending teacher, when he/she could simply be replace a day later...I’m not excusing the bishops for their willfull obfuscation, but there was incentive for it, however misbegotten it may have been...
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