On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: >> you are simply not telling the truth. you are being incredibly callous and >> disingenuous to all of the victims and their families. if anyone needs to >> climb down, it's you. >> as usual, you ignore facts and pretend your opinion is the final word. > > You are so blinded by your hatred of the Catholic Church that you fail to > recognize a very small percentage of priests are homosexuals preying on > teenaged boys, or that their rates of pedophilia are far lower than those of > the general population. That's not being "callous" or "disingenous," or a > defense of the bad behavior of a small percentage of priests.
<SWOOOSH> as the point goes right over Francis' head. You're so fixated on claiming we hate the Catholic Church per se that you're missing the point. It has nothing to do with how many or how few priests were pedophiles or boyfuckers, (or girlfuckers, for that matter, there were a LOT of those as well, see what the Church did in Ireland for generations) the point of all the outrage has been at the consistent and generations-long cover up and denial of the problem to the very highest echelons of the church hierarchy. They denied to the public that the problem existed, and simply moved the offenders around the world to hide thier crimes from scrutiny (and note, legally, this behavior makes them criminally liable as accessories, and certainly morally liable for the damages done to the children and their families) This is not the ravings of some anti-catholoc bigots, this is the findings of governmental inquiries in a number of countries and the effect of civil suits finally dragging this festering mess into the light of day. The Pope's OWN BROTHER, a fellow bishop in Germany, and the Pope's former deputy has been found to be complicit in this. There is no way in hell that the Pope himself was not involved; for him to deny any knowledge beggars belief. The issue isn't whether they commited pedophilia in the narrow legalistic sense or they preferred their boys post-puberty, or how many or how few priests were involved, it's that the Church valued it's own reputation and coffers over the well-being of their parishioners, that the Church ACTIVELY and WILLFULLY put known predators back into situations where they could continue to prey upon children. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
