(May 24, 2015 at 8:39 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Hey, asshole, you forgot to answer this:
(May 24, 2015 at 5:42 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Wait -- you don't consider the protection of pedophile priests as a failure -- in this case, a failure of conscience?
I'll get to the rest of those points later. Answer me that: you honestly don't think that protecting molesters is an ethical and moral failure?!
You're clearly uncomfortable with defending child molesters ... so why do you support them?
My apologies, Parker. There was extensive discussion of this in a more relevant thread, and I didn't realize that you were not part of the fun there. I wrote:
First, there is no excuse for the sins committed by the priests who committed these crimes nor for the failures of the bishops who mishandled them. Those guilty of the crimes should be prosecuted, and those who showed poor judgment after the fact should be retired.
(I'm highlighting that because it was frequently missed by others.)
Second, I have spent MANY hours online discussing the matter in forums such as this.
Third, while I am disappointed, I am neither outraged nor shocked. We are a fallen race, and fallen people, fallen Christians included, commit sins.
Fourth, I keep this in perspective. I do not disassociate myself from public schools just because school teachers abuse minors. I do not disassociate myself from colleges and universities just because Jerry Sandusky abused minors at Penn State. I do not stop voting for elected officials just because our president had sex with an intern in the Oval Office. Why? See my previous point.
Fifth, unlike people who relish the opportunity to bash Christians in general and Catholics especially, I recognize the bias inherent in the reporting.
Only a tiny fraction of priests were involved; the percentage of pedophile priests is LOWER than the percentage of school teachers who abuse children.
And school systems moved teachers around, too. I provided sources to support my posts if facts are at all of interest to you.
