(May 30, 2013 at 12:29 am)Godschild Wrote: Ok Baalb and cato123, listen up, the pedophiles would not be married period, there's nothing in a marriage they want, and yes these people need to be put to death so society doesn't have to keep their sorry butts up or risk them being freed. I brought the marriage thing up for one reason, now try and read this slowly so you will understand. The more married priest there are in the church the less pedophiles can get in the church to harm the children, thus limiting the harm that can be done and the more watchmen (married priest) there will be to protect them, especially is the married priest are overseeing the children. I'm not trying to be mean here, it's that you did not take time to see the difference married priest would make, it seemed to me all you wanted to do is criticize.
What they are saying is that a priest who is a pedophile will continue to be a pedophile regardless. Marriage will not stop them any more than priesthood does. In fact, it may even give them a new source of cover, as there will be people who will incorrectly assume that a marriage would prevent a priest from diddling altar boys.
The only action which can really help, short of extreme measures such as I half-jokingly offered, is for the church to actually give a fuck about the problem by closely monitoring their priests, starting inquiries when accusations are made, defrocking those who are guilty, and letting the law deal with them.
