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To: MarkWar
"'Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence,' Rosemary Curb (Editor) Nancy Manahan (Editor) -- is a pretty good indication that there is a whole population of young girls who have also been abused but either haven't come forward or simply aren't getting the press."

Does the book actually speak to abuse of girls by nuns? If so, please cite the passages.

If not, please cite ONE instance of an abuse of a young girl by a nun from any source.

I really want to see the evidence on which you base your contention that there is some major sexual scandal brewing that involves nuns abusing girls.

If it is your OPINION that there is, that's fine.

But, if there's no evidence to support that opinion, I'd like to know on what you base it, other than "some nuns are lesbians, some lesbians abuse each other and girls, therefore nuns abuse each other and girls."

Surely you're not using that sloppy logic, are you?

54 posted on 05/05/2002 12:16:30 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
>...other than
(1) "some nuns are lesbians,
(2) some lesbians abuse each other and girls,
(3) therefore nuns abuse each other and girls."
Surely you're not using that sloppy logic, are you?

Why yes, I am.

The only modification I'd make is that I'd change number #3 to read:

Thank you for spelling it out for me. I thought that sequence was implicit in what I said, but if you're happier with it numbered, I'm glad that makes my point clear for you.

As you play your jackass word games, also bear in mind that I never said "some major sexual scandal brewing that involves nuns abusing girls." Those were your words. My words were: "...there is a whole population of young girls who have also been abused but either haven't come forward or simply aren't getting the press." (They may never get the press male abuse gets and it may never turn into a public scandal.)

And I stand by that assertion based on the 1,2,3 logic you spelled out, subject to adding the word "some" in #3. The number of boys abused is, of course, very small compared to the total number of boys who take part in the "Catholic system." My conjecture is that the population of girls abused will be equally small in comparision to the overall number of girls in the system, but I believe it will be a percentage similar to the abused boys. (Although in a more extreme bit of speculation I'd actually guess the number of abused girls to be higher because my impression is that there are more nuns in the world than priests -- I might be wrong -- and the nuns are often in support positions, out of the limelight though still empowered with the "majesty" of the Church, where they have greater opportunity to abuse girls than priests do to abuse boys.)

Thanks for bumping these ideas and keeping them active. Me and my sloppy logic thank you.

Mark W.

55 posted on 05/06/2002 7:42:16 AM PDT by MarkWar
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