Posted on 09/02/2018 10:22:01 AM PDT by madprof98
What led the church to where it is today was unspeakable crimes and institutional cover-ups. At a moment when unqualified humility would seem the only possible response available to leaders of the Catholic faith, they instead choose to engage in the scurrilous scapegoating of innocent gay people. They demonstrate an unwillingness to accept full responsibility and a breathtaking absence of decency. Abuse in the church occurred not because of homosexuality but because church leaders created safe spaces for predators. Some of the abusers might have been gay. So what? Psychologists say pedophiles are sexually aroused not by gender but by youth, and homosexuality does not make people more likely to abuse others, as studies have shown. Some of the victims in Pennsylvania were girls.
When priests tell church members that homosexuality is a bar to Heaven, that's ultimately a spiritual matter the faithful must work out for themselves, but when church officials charge that homosexuality causes outrages in communities here on Earth, the discussion becomes a concern for believers and non-believers alike. Whether for spiritual or humane principles, the reaction from within and without the church must be to categorically reject such hateful messages.
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Actually around 99%.
Every last one of them.
ALL.
Priests in the eastern church are allowed to marry and guess what, the eastern church (sometimes called orthodox) doesn’t have this problem.
Homos don’t want homos blamed. Shocking!
A tiny percentage were girls. What age were they?
Pedophilia is a sexual attraction to pre-pubesent people.
Nearly all the victims were pubesent or older. The vast majority were male on male.
This whole article is whitewash of homosexuality.
Pederasty is the norm among queers and no amount of BS can hide that fact.
Sodomites are a clear and present danger to all children. Period.
No no no no no no...of course not. Can't blame the homos for aaaaanything. Homos are the most protected and the most precious of the left's victim groups. Unless it's muslims. Then homos should go backstage and shut up.
No, it's been an ongoing problem in Catholicism for over 1,000 years.
St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah: Homosexual Situation Graver than Damian's Time
This entire scandal makes the gay community very uncomfortable. It destroys the gay narrative that homosexual men are only attracted to adult men and not to boys. They try to argue that these priests preyed on boys because they are easier targets, but there is no denying that these adult gay priests have a sexual attraction to boys. So, how many other gay men have these feelings? Hmmmm?
I’m not a gay homosexual....but my boyfriend is. Is that their excuse?????
Blame the Pedo Priests over the last 40 years for why there are so many homosexuals today
True but Catholic Churches would be perfect feeding ground for those who stalk the sexually confused.
The socialist “religion” has been so dominant in western cultures over the last century that normal young men were discouraged from entering the priesthood. The RCC then became so desperate for priests to fill the pulpits that it accepted “anyone” into its seminaries. Soon the all male seminaries turned into homosexual clubs.
...is this where marriage is defined as a union between one man and one woman? How will that work in the US with its newly found, 200+ year dormant constitutional right regarding marriage?
It was going on before VII, but VII made it policy and completely wiped out everything that had kept it - or anything else - in check.
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