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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (122454)	5/5/2010 8:20:06 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) of 132070

skeeter, >>so, according to Freedom Fighter, there were no crimes committed against those under 18. funny, i heard a guy on the radio today say he was abused as a 16 year old. he made a play out of the experience.<< There were some cases that were pedophilia and some that were homosexual (way more of the latter), but the mainstream reporting ALWAYS uses the term pedophilia. I object to that kind of reporting because the goal is clearly to either maximize the damage to the church or minimize the damage to homosexual community (most likely both). It's hard for me to believe the NY times (for example) doesn't know the difference considering half the editorial board is probably gay. lol This is significant because the idea of an adult having sex with a physically mature teenager is frowned upon and sometimes even illegal depending on the age. But it's not nearly as horrific as an adult having sex with a child. So you can see how calling them all pedophilia served to create a picture that wildly distorted the reality and hid a major cause of the problem from the discussion. I totally agree with you about those that covered up cases. When they did something illegal they should be prosecuted. When they used poor judgment they should be removed from power. The one thing I have tried to point out is that some of these priests did extremely foolish things with the best of intentions because decades ago the psychiatric community did not understand pedophilia or homosexuality. Experts thought it was safe to treat and reassign priests. Sadly they were very wrong. But you have to separate the naive priest that was following the best available advice and the scumbag that knew he was dealing with a repeat offender, covered it up, and sent the priest elsewhere knowing full well he was endangering others. The former is some old schmuck that didn't know better. The latter is the guy you and I want to send to hell.

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