Homosexual Activists Want It Both Ways on Boy Scouts, Catholic Priests
For the past few months, the Catholic Church has been hit with charges of scandal. Hundreds of priests have been accused of having sexual relations with under-aged boys. Even worse, when some bishops were notified by concerned parents, they merely transferred the offending priest to another parish, where the cycle of abuse was allowed to continue.
"This is abuse of trust of the very worst kind," said Janet Folger, national director of the CENTER FOR RECLAIMING AMERICA. "Parents put a sacred trust in their religious leaders—whether they be Catholic or Protestant—and to break that trust like this is a tragedy."
So what has caused the sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church?
"The overwhelming majority [of these cases involve] homosexuals, but the media steers away," the Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic scholar, told the Washington Times. "It is no secret that there has been a certain moral laxity and that a significant number of active homosexuals entered the priesthood in the last 20 or 30 years."
George Weigel, Catholic author of a biography on Pope John Paul II, called the offending priests "a homosexually oriented clergy not living celibacy the way it must be lived."
Pro-homosexual critics denounced these claims. Mary Louise Cervone, president of Dignity/USA, a group that claims to represent homosexual Catholics, declared, "It has nothing to do with sexual orientation." She accused conservative Catholics of "trying to make gay priests the scapegoats for decades of sexual abuse."
However, the Washington Times reported, "Over the years there has been talk in church circles of a homosexual web of alliances in the church, a ´lavender Mafia´ that operates out of seminaries referred to as ´pink palaces.´ This group of priests, Mr. Weigel said, protects others who share their homosexual orientation."
"A high-profile Manhattan priest who spoke on condition of anonymity said the scandal has been brewing for years," the Times added.
"They called me right-wing and Attila the Hun—they just refused to acknowledge the growth of the homosexual networks in the hierarchy," this priest said.
Some in the news media likewise blamed the sexual abuse problem on priest´s vows to remain celibate. For instance, columnist Maureen Dowd, of the New York Times, stated, "The vow of celibacy serves as a magnet for men running away from sexual feelings they are ashamed of."
"It´s ridiculous to blame the molestation problem on celibacy, because the vast majority of priests remain true to their vows," said Folger. "If what those attacking the Catholic Church as a whole are saying is true, then over 98% of priests are doing their jobs by faithfully following Catholic teachings and not abusing these boys."
Rod Dreher, a Catholic writer for National Review Online, likewise responded, "[W]hat we´re seeing with priests is not pedophilia, which is a deep-seated psychological illness. What we´re seeing is gay men who cannot or will not keep their pants up around teenage boys. Not teenage girls. Teenage boys."
As Father Donald Cozzens, former vicar of priests for the Diocese of Cleveland and author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood, recently told Tim Russert of NBC News, "Roughly 90 percent of priest abusers targeted teenage boys as their victims … Why are 90 percent to 95 percent, and some estimates say as high as 98 percent of the victims of clergy acting out against teenage boys? Why isn´t there, sadly speaking, a higher percentage of teenage girls? We need to ask that question, and I think there´s a certain reluctance to raise that issue."
Folger added, "In other words, the evidence is clear that this is a homosexual problem, not a celibacy problem."
"I find it ironic that those who attack the Catholic church for not doing enough to protect these vulnerable boys are the same people who attack the Boy Scouts of America for taking steps to prevent this abuse."
"The homosexual activists are trying to have it both ways."
"As for this tragic scandal, I am confident the Catholic Church will take the necessary steps to root out those clergy who are causing problems."
In fact, a survey by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows that at least 232 priests have been removed over the past 20 years for sexual abuse of minors.
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School officials use several arguments to deflect criticism of GSAs. In a Boston Herald article last month, Newton assistant superintendent Jim Marini brushed aside a parent’s questioning of Newton’s GSA activities. "This is not about sex. This is about human rights," he said. The school counselor, Linda Shapiro, added that, "the purpose is to make gay students feel safe..."
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