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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (108450)7/17/2007 7:44:42 PM
From: Freedom Fighter  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
skeeter,

I don't know who knew what, when, in all these cases. I can't comment on specific cases. I've already expressed my view on how priests, bishops, cardinals etc.. that hid PEDOPHILIA should have been treated. Basically, they should be tossed from the priesthood and probably prosecuted.

As I also said though, there are distinctions that must be made in some of these cases.

I don't know what the church should do when one of the 35%-40% of its priests that are gay has sex with a 17 year old boy that is also homosexual (or confused) and he consented.

Do you have an opinion?

Those priests should also probably be tossed from the priesthood, but I believe the church tends to try to get help for them and does so privately because they aren't considered pedophiles or even sex predators in many cases. In other words, psychologists suggest they can change and are not necessarily repeat offenders. In some cases they haven't actually even broken a law. They have only behaved immorally in most people's eyes.
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