(October 3, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote:(October 3, 2015 at 1:01 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am too lazy right now to search for an article for you, but I remember reading about a psychological study of child molesters (before everyone had the internet). It turns out that men who identify as heterosexual are the ones most likely to molest children. Even male children.
The takeaway from the study seemed to me to be this: If you had to leave your child in the care of a stranger (which you should not do if at all possible), a woman is a better choice than a man. And a gay man is a better choice than a heterosexual man.
I don't doubt it. It makes sense to me, of course, they are mentally disturbed.
I agree with you, and I'm sure you know I was just pointing out the evil hypocrisy of the catholic church, but anyways.. They seem to have a 'being gay is wrong' mentality. They fire someone for admitting he's gay, but when he rapes a boy they move him, so he gets to do it again. WTF!? It's almost like Deut 22:28-29. The man gets rewarded for the rape, besides the 50 sheckels part. The priest gets off the hook even easier. It's as if, he's rewarded for his actions. If the idiotic primitive catholic mentality would change slightly, they'd allow women priests, and they wouldn't have to move pedophiles around, they could just get rid of them, but who knows if that would help? or if they would even care enough to do so.. They just want to protect their image. They don't actually give a shit whose lives they destroy.
Really, it is a matter of public relations. Being gay is not so much a problem for a priest. But publicly coming out as gay is a problem. It is the public image that matters. This is why the church has hidden and protected child molesters. They do not want the bad publicity, and so they have made great efforts to hide the problem.
As long as there is the appearance that they want, they are happy. The reality of what is going on matters less to them.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
