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To: Lane3 who wrote (1306)3/5/2002 3:55:11 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
I was wondering about that. Do you know if it's an international problem or not?

It is a universal problem, beyond doubt. The Roman Catholic Church has a much higher proportion of homosexual priests than the ratio of gays in the male population at large. Some have estimated it be be as high as 50 percent of all priests, though I believe that is a stretch. So far pedophilia in the Church has been almost exclusively a man and boy situation; i.e., no female children. My perception is that that applies as well to pedophilia in the outside world.

The reason why there are so many homosexual priests is fairly obvious, especially to anyone like myself who has attended Catholic schools. It is probably not necessary to discuss it. There certainly is no reason to believe that the underlying reasons have any less application in other countries, and maybe some reason to believe they have more application in some other countries.

I believe that among other ramifications of this scandal, is that liberals who fervently support gay rights are going to find themselves between a rock and a hard place. It would be hard to think of any reason why pedophilia as such should be so prevalent among priests as such. The root of the problem more logically seems to rest in the fact that homosexuals are so prevalent in the priesthood.

What do you think about that?

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