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To: MadRobotArtist
"When you knowingly go against God, there should be consequences. That includes all the other sins. I'd like to think that the Bible should be enough for anyone. If you need to defend Gays as priests that's your business, I'm sure in the name of tolerance you'd like to make sure nobody is victimized."

Ah, but you make my point. A priest who KNOWS that for whatever reason, his sexual orientation is toward other males, but admits the weakness, asks for forgiveness, and RESISTS the temptation to act, has done all God asks of him. I've got no use for active queers (priests or not), and any priest who molests a juvenile of EITHER sex (and ANY religion) needs to be IMMEDIATELY turned in to the civil authorities for investigation/prosecution.

The problem for the church is priests who succumb to their urges, and the people in the church hierarchy who cover up for them. The church keeps trying to "handle things internally", and it won't wash. The church MUST institute a zero tolerance policy that ANY priest who might have commited such a crime HAS to be turned over to civil authority--if the church ALSO has some internal structure/procedures to take ADDITIONAL action (defrocking, whatever) AFTER the civil jurisdiction has taken action, that is fine, but those internal procedures CANNOT replace the absolute requirement for them to "turn the bastards in".

If the bishops don't institute such a zero tolerance policy, it will destroy the organized Catholic church. The church heirarchy has already suffered so much damage already that it may be irreversible, but they STILL waffle.

136 posted on 04/27/2002 5:09:22 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog
Well, I guess we do agree for the most part.
137 posted on 04/27/2002 6:47:13 AM PDT by MadRobotArtist
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