I'm not quite entirely jesting when I advocate for the Catholic church to make kiddie diddling by priests into a sacrament. The First Amendment battle would be entertaining, and the possibility of negating sex abuse damage claims would easily pay for literally eternal litigation till they had their sacrament guaranteed.
In fact, there would be enough money on the table to 'purchase' permission to acquire children for sacramental sexual purposes from WILLING parents (don't kid yourself there aren't parents who would look the other way for $20,000) and there wouldn't be any lawsuits from that either. Hell, in a free market of sorts, there would be a race to the bottom for such fees and the Catholic Church could be 'picky' about which kids get selected. Catering to individual priests peccadilloes would be a morale booster for their beleaguered priests.
Damn, I'm having a difficult time finding a down side to this.
Other than it harms children.
But that ain't different from the current system either.
In fact, there would be enough money on the table to 'purchase' permission to acquire children for sacramental sexual purposes from WILLING parents (don't kid yourself there aren't parents who would look the other way for $20,000) and there wouldn't be any lawsuits from that either. Hell, in a free market of sorts, there would be a race to the bottom for such fees and the Catholic Church could be 'picky' about which kids get selected. Catering to individual priests peccadilloes would be a morale booster for their beleaguered priests.
Damn, I'm having a difficult time finding a down side to this.
Other than it harms children.
But that ain't different from the current system either.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
