Catholic League president: Priests aren’t pedophiles, molesting children is ‘what gays do’

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 23:35 EST
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In another coup for the seemingly part-time political pundit Bill Donohue, CNN broadcast on Tuesday a conversation about the Catholic church’s thousands of pedophilia scandals that would be awkward to even over-hear in public, let alone broadcast nation-wide.

That’s because Donohue, who presides over the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, decided to take the matter of a 14-year-old’s sexual abuse to a level of technicality where none of his fellow contributors really cared to tread.

Objecting to the term “pedophilia” being used to describe the rampant claims of children being sexually abused by priests and nuns, Donohue instead called the acts “homosexuality,” later suggesting “that’s what gays do.”

Though repeatedly cited in the media as the Catholic Church’s “pedophilia” problem, Donohue instead prefers a longer term, according to his editorial published by CNN on March 19: “the sexual molestation of minors.”

And, actually, the two terms are not mutually exclusive, explains the psychology department at UC Davis, noting that “pedophilia” as used to describe the church’s scandals “can cause confusion.”

“Whereas pedophilia and hebephilia refer to psychological propensities, child molestation and child sexual abuse are used to describe actual sexual contact between an adult and someone who has not reached the legal age of consent,” they explain. “In this context, the latter individual is referred to as a child, even though he or she may be a teenager.”

What Donohue is saying is that the priests who carried out such horrendous offenses against children did not have a psychological fixation on children: they were simply attracted to people of the same sex, and that’s just what homosexuals do. His own bar for limiting use of the term “pedophilia,” according to his CNN interview, is, “I dunno, 12, 13 years of age?”

Host Larry King cut the Catholic League president off, saying: “We’re out of time. We’ve just touched the surface.”

In this instance, Donohue simply parrots an occasional meme of the rightwing press, no more true in present day America than it was when similar charges were commonly leveled against other minority groups.

In fact, the UC Davis study notes:

In yet another approach to studying adult sexual attraction to children, some Canadian researchers observed how homosexual and heterosexual adult men responded to slides of males and females of various ages (child, pubescent, and mature adult). All of the research subjects were first screened to ensure that they preferred physically mature sexual partners. In some of the slides shown to subjects, the model was clothed; in others, he or she was nude. The slides were accompanied by audio recordings. The recordings paired with the nude models described an imaginary sexual interaction between the model and the subject. The recordings paired with the pictures of clothed models described the model engaging in neutral activities (e.g., swimming). To measure sexual arousal, changes in the subjects’ penis volume were monitored while they watched the slides and listened to the audiotapes. The researchers found that homosexual males responded no more to male children than heterosexual males responded to female children (Freund et al., 1989).

Science cannot prove a negative. Thus, these studies do not prove that homosexual or bisexual males are no more likely than heterosexual males to molest children. However, each of them failed to prove the alternative hypothesis that homosexual males are more likely than heterosexual men to molest children or to be sexually attracted to children or adolescents.

The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance take a differing perspective on the definitions, classifying “homosexuals” as individuals who are solely attracted to adults of the same sex. Pedophilia, they note, “is now generally used to describe an adult who sexually abuses children; a child molester. Some pedophiles are attracted to both boys and girls; some are attracted to children of only one gender.”

Meaning: it does not matter the gender of the child, sexual abuse by an adult makes the perpetrator into a pedophile in the eyes of society. Mr. Donohue’s argument that “homosexuality” is to blame for the Catholic Church’s problems would seem to be misplaced.

Adding insult to the victims’ injury, The New York Times recently reported on a case in which the church moved a priest accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the United States to a school in India, where he was employed in the appointment of teachers.

This video was snipped from CNN’s Larry King Live by Crooks and Liars on April 6, 2010.

Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
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  • LibertarianAnnonymous

    No words.

  • Saint Francesca of the Sissies

    Bill Donohue is allegedly a raging homosexual bottom. He allegedly is afraid of coming out of the closet, which is why he keeps projecting his repressive fantasies of homosexuality onto the pedophilic and ephebophilic priests of the Catholic Church, which he defends like a total psychopath. He cannot stand the fact that as a repressed homosexual he cannot deal with his desires. Nor can he accept that his beloved church harbors child molesters. He is sick. Very very sick. As sick as that cancer on the face of Christianity, pope Benedict, a false pope if there ever was one.

  • Ain't just a River In Egypt

    Wow.. are you guys going down fast. This is totally inaccurate. Talk about denial, and blatant desporation.

    Oh yea, also, people arn't that stupid Mr. Donohue. The world now sees the obvious, the church has a centuries old issue with maintaining a “system” of pedophilia addiction. You are anything but Christ like.

    I think you have outworn your welcome and your power on this planet.

  • markusgarvey

    he speaks only from his own experience…

  • AtlanticCapers

    Actually, it's what Christians do.

    Can we get this guy to replace Michael Steele?

  • thatprogressiveredneck

    You can shine your shoes and wear a suit
    You can comb your hair and look quite cute
    You can hide your face behind a smile
    One thing you can’t hide
    Is when you’re crippled inside

    ( – John Lennon)

  • lm945

    Homosexuality is legal. Pedophilia is illegal. Therefore, the priests are merely homosexual.

    What a crock of sh!t!

    By the way, that lame excuse doesn't explain the priests who molested girls. How does this sorry excuse for a human being rationalize statutory rape?

  • PeteWa

    Bill Donohue, apologist for child raping.

  • Jay Mac

    His own bar for limiting use of the term “pedophilia,” according to his CNN interview, is, “I dunno, 12, 13 years of age?”

    In other words, this man thinks it's OK for an adult to have sex with a child as young as 14 years old. This also tells me he has probably done that and should be in prison. This is a sick and twisted person.

  • gr8fuldaniel

    And the priests who rape little girls at gunpoint?
    Gay?

  • marty b

    Why did no one point out that, while sexual attraction to children is pedophilia, sexual intercourse with them is pederasty? And while, even as a gay man who is offended by this guy, I'd have to admit that same-sex attraction to post-pubescent individuals is more likely homosexuality than pedophilia (some 16-y.o.'s look 20 and vice-versa; the point is, they have a man's–mature–body). It seems to me that most of what's happening in the Catholic Church is pederasty. Simple statistics would suggest, however, that a percentage of the abuse is homosexual as well, because there are many gay priests, and some of them are attracted to sexually mature minors rather than prepubescent ones. By the same token, there is heterosexual abuse of mature minor girls as well. A little bit of everything in a population that large is to be expected. The real trouble stems from expecting anyone to be celibate for life. It will eventually manifest somewhere, usually in secret among the most vulnerable.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Except that most people are stupid and will lap up anything this asshole says, pointing his finger at homosexuals NOT priests.

    I have a friend from college who eventually came out of the closet.

    Bill is trying to shift the blame from 'the priests' to 'the homosexuals.' Except my friend from college never tried to diddle any children.

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  • Anonymous

    We tried to contact Mr. Steele ..
    But he’s all Tied Up.

  • Ralph

    “Catholic League president: Priests aren’t pedophiles, molesting children is ‘what gays do”.

    Spoken like a true asshole!

    Have to agree with markusgarvey, Bill Donohue has to be speaking from first-hand experience and knowledge.

  • DonJuan

    He is a shameful man from a shameful religion. “Those who believe in hell, deserve it”! That can't be anymore true for Bill Donohue.

  • dotherightthing

    Defender of child raping.

  • gr0o

    Burn in your hell Donohue.

  • otrdriver1

    Marty, No one pointed out what you suggest because it would not have been sensationalism journalism. That is what sells the news, that is what most of them report on. We can not expect the main-stream news media to report anything that is bland and just news it must have a ere-of sensationalism to it or they won't report it. It is unfortunate but seems to be norm.

  • cirrus3

    “The real trouble stems from expecting anyone to be celibate for life. It will eventually manifest somewhere, usually in secret among the most vulnerable.”

    This is a very common argument, but unfortunately it's not necessarily a solution (we humans are all quick to jump to incorrect conclusions, myself included). Male clergy from other religions that don't require a vow of celibacy supposedly have the same trouble with child molestation, at the same rates:

    http://www.psychwww.com/psyrelig/plante.html

  • Faff

    If it was only homosexuality, then that makes the molestation of countless vulnerable children, oops sorry! I meant to say the molestation of countless vulnerable non-adults – by a trusted authority figure completely and utterly fine. It also means that the Pope covering up for it was likewise, totally A-OK. Of course it's theologically difficult as there is no mention in the Bible of Christ raping his way through the children of Judea and without biblical precedent you always have to stretch the theology a little. Perhaps a re-working of 'suffer little children to come unto me'?

  • louierippo99

    LOL, ignorance is bliss!

    Lou
    http://www.anon-resources.at.tc

  • http://twitter.com/boerema Andrew Boerema

    Donohue is showing us exactly why so many conservatives don't support equal rights for homosexuals. They propagate vile misinformation on major news outlets, leading to people who otherwise may never encounter homosexuality to think it is evil.

    Gay people have the exact same needs and desires as straight people, simply with people of their own gender. To say that homosexuals are attracted to children is absolute stupidity. Homosexuals already have enough problems in society without also being labeled pedophiles.

  • rextrek1

    If these Pedophiles were “gay” as he says – why wouldnt these preist just have sex with each other……? WHY..cause they are NOT gay – they are Pedophiles…There's a DIFFERENCE Mr Donohue…Gay people don't want to have sex with kids – Pedophiles do…you OEW the Gay community an apology!

  • NoBlood4Hubris

    Bill Donohue Comes Out of Closet as NAMBLA propagandist.

    Shame on all pedophiles, and shame on the legion of pedophile priests and their enablers.

  • carbonpaper

    Sir, you made my day with that comment.

  • Anonymous

    They are all false. This one is no worse than the previous one.

    The last halfway decent pope was John Paul I, and you know what they did to him.

  • Mel-Glib-Son

    Mel Gibson's new Movie

    THE PASSION OF THE POPE

    rated A-Z

  • Brother Joe

    Karl Marx said “religion is the opiate of the masses.” If Bill Donohue can't tell the difference between a pedophile and a gay person, he overdosed a long time ago. God good, religion bad.

  • Dan

    What I think is being missed here is….

    Despite the possibility that Bills conclusion is right; in that it's molestation only if you're having sex with a prepubescent person, and a prepubescent person is a person under the age of 13 – this still doesn't remove the fact that we have laws against sex with minors. And a MINOR is different from a PREPUBESCENT. A MINIOR is someone under the age of 18.

    I do love how Bill's only material here is trying to make a clear distinction between a 13 year old and someone under 18. What an insignificant difference! It's bad either way, Bill!

    EVEN AGE ASIDE… The priests are not supposed to have sex AT ALL. THe priests are not supposed to engage in homosexuality AT ALL.

    Bill can argue all he wants about definitions of the abused based off their age, but he still has all his work cut out for him, because the priests he's defending STILL had sex, STILL engaged in homosexuality, and STILL had sex with underage children.

  • bill

    You people should listen to what Donahue said. He didnt say ALL sodomites go after children! These priests are not molesting girls they are molesting boys.If the priest is male and he is molesting a male that makes him a homosexual. And now because he is doing this to a child it makes him a pedophile, lets call it like it is.Im tired of people calling these priests christians. The bible says anyone that offends one of these little ones should have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown in the sea!!!

  • Theresa

    Someone needs to bitchslap this man all the way to hell… While we're at it, include the pope in said bitchslapping.

  • Antinous

    This dime-bag needs to STFU.

  • chriswis

    OHHHHH, Is that all? Whew. For a second there we thought it was something despicable. Thanks for clearing it all up.

  • skies are blue

    A Catholic priest who forces an 11 year old boy to perform oral sex on him is a rapist, and a pedophile.. no?….like that is even a question?? A pope who helped silence the victim and keep the crime hidden from authorities is an accomplice. Donohue should be strapped to a polygraph and questioned about his sexual past, along with the Pope and his legions.

  • dennycrane

    The more you vampires talk, the more stakes you drive into your vatican.

  • chrisinva

    Pedophilia, definition: “Pedophilia (or paedophilia) is a psychological disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children.

    After an exhaustive investigation (2002-2004), the John Jay Law Center determined that over 80% of the abuse cases involving Catholic priests and bishops over the past 50 years were “homosexual in nature” — that is, they involved the rape of post-pubescent boys by clerics.

    Were the rapists “homosexuals”? Not necessarily, the John Jay center recently told the bishops. They could have involved non-homosexual men “acting like homosexuals.”

    Why all this intended confusion? While all abusing priests have been sacked, over a hundred of the bishops who protected them (transferring, sending to 'therapy' and then reassigning, etc.) are still in office and refuse to quit. And an inordinate number (i.e., much higher than in the population at large) of priests and bishops are homosexuals. Unfortunately, the celibate state was an invitation to a lot of men who didn't want to get married anyway.

    Please no hate mail, these are just facts.

  • AtlanticCapers

    Actually, the Bible gives the priests the right to kill these children if they refuse to be molested.

    Stop reading that evil book. It's made a moron of you.

  • R. Burns

    I am homosexual, and I think this guy is an idiot, but I believe he makes a very valid point here. The Catholic Church's main problem has never been pedophilia, but rather homosexual men that went into the priesthood as soon as they could to hide their sexuality, so they wouldn't have to marry or face up to a straight society's expectations. Nowhere in this is this guy saying that Homosexuals are Pedophiles, but rather that it is primarily adolescent boys (not children) that were being victimized by men. I am not excusing what these priests have done, but I think the Catholic Church can grovel and apologize all it wants, but this problem is going to keep haunting them until they make some real reforms, namely allowing priests to marry or have partners.

  • Patrick

    You're Christians are so much unlike your Christ.

  • Patrick

    Yeah… wish I could fix the grammatical typo. You're=Your

  • GunTotinLiberal

    I guess these were homosexual priests as well, right?

    Fr George Baily. At least 10 women have accused him of abusing them when they were grade-school students at St. Vincent School in Akron and St. Mary's School in Bedford.

    Father Eugene Bailot Accused of molesting girls in the 1950s Boston

    Father Lawrence Baird. Accused in 2002 of abusing a girl who came to him for advice after being abused by Rev. John Lenihan.

    Father Victor Balbin. Accused of abuse of a teenage girl. LA archdiocese

    Father Jerry Bals. accused of fondling girls in counseling sessions at Lake Catholic High School for 14 years. Total of 8 Jane Does, five of whom filed suit.

    Father Baquedano-Pech. accused of sexually molesting a girl for several years, beginning when she was 11.

    Father Joseph P. barber. Accused of rape of girl, age 6, in 1961

    Father Raymond Bartnikowski. Woman claimed that he abused her in 1967 when she was 12. Two other femals came forward to allege abuse in 1960s.

    Father John Basket. Accused in 2007 of seducing 15-yr-old girl in 1952

    Father Gerald Beaudet. one woman alleged Beaudet gave her alcohol and made her perform oral sex in 1972 at age 14 at St. Albert Parish.

    PS this is just a partial list . There are tons more cases of priests raping girls. For more go to http://www.bishop-accountability.org/

  • Investigate-NWO-globalists

    William (Bill) Donahue is a provocateur & asshole who has been blathering for decades!

  • GunTotinLiberal

    What this old drama queen conveniently ignores is it is not just the fact that priests have been raping and molesting children, but that the church has been covering up these crimes, refusing to co-operate with authorities and transferring the predator priests to different parishes enabling them to rape more.
    Remember, it wasn’t the break-in at the Watergate that did in Nixon, it was the cover-up.

  • http://biscuits007.wordpress.com/ protobone

    Billy Bombastic is the perfect “defender” for Mother Church and her Pope. Both are aging, antiquated, irrelevant to our 'modern' world, and grossly obscene. Homophobia and dogma do NOT a religion make. Well and that pedophile priest motif seems kinda icky too.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Donohue was not condoning sexual abuse or homosexual behavior, for that matter. His mistake in the interview seems to have been quibbling over the definition of ‘pedophilia’. Being so painfully aware of this problem, parents, church leaders and youth organization leaders all MUST eliminate situations in which priests/coaches/whoever are alone with children and otherwise follow the rules for youth protection.

  • calimann

    Well, if you didn't already know this guy was full of shit, maybe this makes it a little bit clearer. Donohue is a fairly consistent idiot.

  • Anonymous

    And yet, SOME homosexuals obviously are attracted to boys, and some of those act on that attraction. The implication here is that straight men are as likely to be attracted to boys as are gay men. I’m not buying it.

  • http://twitter.com/lar30 Lorie Regas

    another moron giving Christ a bad name…how sad to have to step over such garbage to follow Him :(

  • Dick Tucker

    So, what I gathered from the UC Davis study is that just because Donohue is a closeted gay man and also happens to be sexually attracted to young boys, there is no correlation between the two.

  • Dick Tucker

    And “so much unlike” is pretty awkward, too. That's OK– non-native English speakers are welcome here.

  • Mary

    Examples of abuse from the Ryan Report on Catholic Clergy Rape inIreland:
    A priest assaults a small girl by brutally inserting an object into her vagina and then her back passage. That object is his crucifix. A priest uses holy water in an altar bowl to wash the scent of a girl from his hands after assaulting her in a confessional.

    This does not sound lke a Gay issue to me.

  • biff777

    Google: Canada – native – holocaust

  • biff777

    Google: Canada – native – holocaust.
    Weren't the native ceremonies at the Vancouver olympics amazing.

  • damixaustex

    You took the words right out of my mouth. Very well put.

    The church has such an out of touch view, young gays who want to be faithful feel compelled to enter the priesthood for absolution. It's akin to all those politicians who drag their families around for every speech then turn out to be gay.
    Of course, absolution never happens, so their ranks are loaded with a higher percentage of gays than the general population and it seems a higher percentage of those gays are confused.
    It's no wonder a view like this comes from the church.

  • hillcrestdenizen

    “Priest Off” This is priceless

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpuYoK6wv_Y&

  • hillcrestdenizen

    “Priest Off” This is priceless

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpuYoK6wv_Y&

  • carbonpaper

    Scapegoating unpopular minorities as a diversionary tactic is what Catholics do.

  • Liz

    What an a-hole Donohue is. You are a pedophile when your an adult having sex with a child.All the priest who have been accused of abusing are pedophiles.

  • Garald

    If they were allowed the same access to young girls as they are boys, you'd have a tough time with that argument. Just ask a nun.

  • Aurelio

    From the article: “…the church moved a priest accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the United States to a school in India.”

    This is the first case of priestly heterosexual child abuse that I have ever seen reported. But I have seen thousands of cases of homosexual child abuse. The offending priests aren't simply homosexuals, and they aren't just pedophiles. They are homosexual pedophiles. Why is it hard to understand that concept? Donohue and other Catholic apologists can try to fog this up as much as they like, but the facts speak for themselves. It really is entertaining to watch them split hairs about hebephilia and ephebophilia in an effort to avoid the charge of child molesting. No matter how you slice it up, it's a crime for an adult to attempt sex with someone under the age of consent.

  • CherryTheTart

    Pedophiles identify themselves as heterosexual. They are commonly married to grown women. They have consenting heterosexual sex with women. Some pedoophiles molest females and males, some only males, some only females. Donahue is repeating the Poop's scapegoating of homosexuals.

  • Anonymous

    I like your post, but I really think the term pedophelia is a numbing and we should be calling it what it really is – child rape.

  • kwertie

    They are neither pedophiles nor gay. They are Catholic.

  • Aurelio

    I think you're right. The priesthood has a lot of self-hating gays who hope to be “cured” or at least restrained of their sexual orientation by the spiritual discipline of the institution. Of course this doesn't work, so they have sex with each other, with the altar boys, and with their gay parishoners. My question is: why is there so much sex with underage boys? Nothing much gets reported about priests having sex with adult men. Is it because this isn't news? Is it because the adult partners keep it quiet? Is it because boys are easier pickings than men?

  • Aurelio

    Young girls confess to them, don't they? That's where Father Murphy in Wisconsin used to molest the kids–in the confessional.

  • Aurelio

    This seems to be the Vatican line: “Child molesting priests weren't pedophiles because most boys were post pubescent.” WTF kind of argument is this? Are they pleading guilty to a lesser charge? Are they saying, “Don't call us child molesters; we're mostly teen molesters”?

  • Aurelio

    Mark 10:14–”Let me come on the little children, and do not hinder me, for such is the kingdom of heaven.”

  • Aurelio

    GunTotinLiberal has posted additional cases of heterosexual priestly child abuse below.

  • pflagmom

    The Catholic Church says it is ok to be gay as long as you are celibate.They should not encourage celibacy for life for homosexuals when their religious leaders who have taken a vow of celibacy can't live up to it. My sadness is that they thought dedicating their lives to God would stop them from being who they were. Forced celibacy and shame for life is inhuman and cruel and causes all kinds of mental and emotional issues.

  • pflagmom

    The Catholic Church says it is ok to be gay as long as you are celibate.They should not encourage celibacy for life for homosexuals when their religious leaders who have taken a vow of celibacy can't live up to it. My sadness is that they thought dedicating their lives to God would stop them from being who they were. Forced celibacy and shame for life is inhuman and cruel and causes all kinds of mental and emotional issues.

  • texasaggie

    The obvious that these creeps are trying so desperately to hide is that if the priests were really just gay, they would have been having sex with other gay priests, not with children. Since they weren't, for Donohue and the rest to keep referring to them as “gay” is not at all honest.

    Another talking point that those people keep throwing up is that most of the victims were boys, not girls, so the priests had to be gay. They don't want to talk about why they are called altar boys and not altar girls. Obviously most of their victims will be boys because that's what they had access to.

  • Aurelio

    I don't think priests have much contact with each other after seminary. The accessibility argument that you make in your second paragraph applies here, too. Altar boys are more accessible than gay fellow priests.

  • xpiolt

    Perversion is perversion.

  • Bill D pedophile apologist

    I don’t know what you read but the article above says homosexuals are not attracted to children any more than heterosexuals. Really, at the point someone is attracted to a child for sex they are no longer gay or straight, they’re a pedophile. Bill Donahue’s priests are pedophiles. Allowing them to marry will only produce closeted pedophiles that have wives.

  • JakeW83

    Acting like homosexuals? Is that like “I'm not gay because I am on top”? If you stick your dick in another guy, whatever the age, it is super gay.

  • spideyman57

    This guy is so full of shit, he stinks!!!!!!

  • S in PA

    He's probably just trying to cover his own ass. I wonder what his record is with females between the ages of 13 and 18.

  • keneri

    This guy is a total idiot with no knowledge about the world he lives in. Just a fantasy world he's made for his priests. Sick, sick.

  • S in PA

    I think it's because it's easier to intimidate a youngster. Grown men usually know they have a choice. A youngster doesn't – a youngster believes that he has to do what the priest says or else he'll rot in Hell for all eternity because the church is all that he knows and the church says you can't get to Heaven without the blessing of the priest. So they have to do what the priest says.

  • S in PA

    I'm sure Gandhi appreciates your acceptance of non-native English speakers. :-)

  • Kamen

    Marty b. WRONG! Hetero Sexual men are ttracted to Postpubescent girls just as much. You just dont hear about it as much! Because they call it Statutory Rape and not Pedophilia. I’m willing to bet 90% of men that are convivted or acused of relations with Pre and Post Pubescent girls have a history of many accusations.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Altar boys are also more accessible than eight-year-olds. What you like, and what you'll settle for, are two different things.

  • marty b

    Have you never heard of “situational homosexual behavior”? Prison is the most obvious example. Men imprisoned–some for life or near-life terms–will have sex with whomever they are able to have sex with. They choose the most vulnerable available, not only for convenience, but to exercise their power over others. Many priests do the same thing. The situation makes it both convenient to have sex with the boys the surround them, but their position of power also allows them to convince or scare the boys into not revealing it.

    Now, if these priests were not confined to such situations, just as the prisoners, they might very well choose to have sexual relationships with women–thus being heterosexual. Even the gay ones might likewise be having sex with men–thus being homosexual. In the confines of the priesthood, if these options are not available, they engage in situational sexual behavior–children are the most easily manipulated victims.

  • Hologram5

    The General Population: The Catholic league president isn't stoned, he's just stupid.
    No douchebag, that's what pedophiles do, molest children.

  • Nacks99

    Catholic Church = Child Molestor Heaven

  • Bill D.fender of pedophiles

    What Bill the pedophile apologist has demonstrated for everyone is the textbook definition of jesuitical casuistry, also known as specious sophistry. If your priest has sex with children, no matter the gender, he's a pedophile, child molester, child rapist. The definition of child is “a person between birth and full growth”. Bill's priests are pedophiles, child molesters, child rapists, plain and simple. I don't care if he wants to call them pedophiles or child molesters, evil pieces of shit are evil pieces of shit and Bill's sugarcoated bullshit doesn't make it anymore acceptable.

  • Bill D.fender of pedophiles

    What Bill the pedophile apologist has demonstrated for everyone is the textbook definition of jesuitical casuistry, also known as specious sophistry. If your priest has sex with children, no matter the gender, he's a pedophile, child molester, child rapist. The definition of child is “a person between birth and full growth”. Bill's priests are pedophiles, child molesters, child rapists, plain and simple. I don't care if he wants to call them pedophiles or child molesters, evil pieces of shit are evil pieces of shit and Bill's sugarcoated bullshit doesn't make it anymore acceptable.

  • Bill D. pedophile apologist

    What Bill the pedophile apologist has demonstrated for everyone is the textbook definition of jesuitical casuistry, also known as specious sophistry. If your priest has sex with children, no matter the gender, he's a pedophile, child molester, child rapist. The definition of child is “a person between birth and full growth”. Bill's priests are pedophiles, child molesters, child rapists, plain and simple. I don't care if he wants to call them pedophiles or child molesters, evil pieces of shit are evil pieces of shit and Bill's sugarcoated bullshit doesn't make it anymore acceptable.

  • Bill D pedophile apologist

    What Bill the pedophile apologist has demonstrated for everyone is the textbook definition of jesuitical casuistry, also known as specious sophistry. If your priest has sex with children, no matter the gender, he's a pedophile, child molester, child rapist. The definition of child is “a person between birth and full growth”. Bill's priests are pedophiles, child molesters, child rapists, plain and simple. I don't care if he wants to call them pedophiles or child molesters, evil pieces of shit are evil pieces of shit and Bill's sugarcoated bullshit doesn't make it anymore acceptable.

  • suzisunshine

    when you mess around w/ a minor sexually that makes you a pedophile. doesn't matter what you call yourself.

  • Catholic Church Is A Racket

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    The eight grade teacher [a nun] ran off with her porky lay person roomie [our 4th grade teacher].
    Our Deacon disappeared with a half a mil in church money [Vegas gambling debts] and was later accused of sex abuse by 5 people. He got off [no pun intended...]
    Our high school girls p.e. teacher used to sit on a chair and watch girls shower, to “make sure they got clean”, as she put it.
    The destruction of European man, and later many other races, all started with the Jesus myth, and has been perpetrated by creepy power mad boy rapists and s&m bull dyke nuns, hiding behind statues, fondling their underused privates and waiting to catch some child in a dark hall for a quick grope, and usually much worse.
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