on 11-01-2015 10:29 AM
on 11-01-2015 11:31 AM
Homosexuality is an orientation, pedophilia, a peversion (at least in our society), it's possible to be one without being the other and peversions are exclusive to no, one orientation.
on 11-01-2015 11:31 AM
Buggery is buggery IMHO, whether it is a 15 year old, 17 and 364 year old or someone over 18.
The only difference is if under 18 it is illegal, not that that stopped the Catholic church in Dublin.
on 11-01-2015 11:32 AM
I'm wondering whether you even read the news:
One in 50 priests is a paedophile: Pope Francis says child abuse is 'leprosy' infecting the Catholic Church
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2690575/Pope-Francis-admits-two-cent-Roman-Catholic-priests-...
How do the Dublin congregation know whether he's #49 or #51?
Good luck to the priest, but no way I'd be leaving my kids around him unsupervised. At all, actually.
on 11-01-2015 11:35 AM
I won't quote that post aps, but seriously??
You do know you can be gay without having a same sex physical relationship? just like you can be hetero and not have a sexual relationship?
on 11-01-2015 11:37 AM
Yes I noticed he didn't say that every single gay man or woman is a paedophile.
on 11-01-2015 11:38 AM
That is not a practise exclusive to gays as some married heterosexuals could tell you.
11-01-2015 11:39 AM - edited 11-01-2015 11:40 AM
Which begs the question Icy - would you have still left your children with him if he didn't come out and say he was gay?
on 11-01-2015 11:44 AM
Vatican has said quotations 'didn't correspond to what pope actually said'
I wonder if we will be shown the whole transcript?
I also wonder, what is the percentage in the general population? about the same.... or higher?
on 11-01-2015 11:45 AM
@para-slights wrote:Which begs the question Icy - would you have still left your children with him if he didn't come out and say he was gay?
After revelations we've seen and heard about priests (and teachers in boys (and girls) schools and principals in orphanages and mental asylums? Defininitely not. No way!
Get real.
on 11-01-2015 11:49 AM
Are homosexual adults in general sexually attracted to children and are preadolescent children at greater risk of molestation from homosexual adults than from heterosexual adults? There is no reason to believe so. The research to date all points to there being no significant relationship between a homosexual lifestyle and child molestation. There appears to be practically no reportage of sexual molestation of girls by lesbian adults, and the adult male who sexually molests young boys is not likely to be homosexual(Groth & Gary, 1982, p. 147).
In a later literature review, Dr. Nathaniel McConaghy (1998) similarly cautioned against confusing homosexuality with pedophilia. He noted, "The man who offends against prepubertal or immediately postpubertal boys is typically not sexually interested in older men or in women" (p. 259).
These are cases in which the term pedophilia – referring as it does to attractions to prepubescent children – can cause confusion. Rather than pedophilia, the accusations stemming from these scandals raised the question of whether gay people shouldn't be trusted in positions of authority where there is any opportunity for sexually harassing or abusing others.
Here again, there is no inherent connection between an adult's sexual orientation and her or his propensity for endangering others. Scientific research provides no evidence that homosexual people are less likely than heterosexuals to exercise good judgment and appropriate discretion in their employment settings. There are no data, for example, showing that gay men and lesbians are more likely than heterosexual men and women to sexually harass their subordinates in the workplace. Data from studies using a variety of psychological measures do not indicate that gay people are more likely than heterosexuals to possess any psychological characteristics that would make them less capable of controlling their sexual urges, refraining from the abuse of power, obeying rules and laws, interacting effectively with others, or exercising good judgment in handling authority.
But don't let the research and facts get in the way of prejudice.