New Report: Gay Priests Aren’t the Problem!
The Catholics have said for years that it’s all the fault of those darned gay priests that have gotten them in so much hot water in recent years. At a national meeting in Baltimore, however, an independent group out of John Jay College of Criminal Justice has released their report that says it isn’t gay priests at all. Margaret Smith, one of the researchers says, “What we are suggesting is that the idea of sexual identity be separated from the problem of sexual abuse, at this point, we do not find a connection between homosexual identity and an increased likelihood of sexual abuse.”
Another researcher, Karen Terry, says that it’s wrong for bishops and other church officials to leap to the conclusion that homosexuality has anything to do with abuse patterns. Yes, sexual abuse is about 80% against boys, but that’s a matter of availability, not preference. “It’s important to separate the sexual identity and the behavior, someone can commit sexual acts that might be of a homosexual nature but not have a homosexual identity.” Both point to prison populations where homosexual behavior is common because of the scarcity of female partners, even in men who have not otherwise engaged in homosexual activity.
Both women were asked by a bishop if homosexuals should be excluded from the ministry based on their findings and Smith answered, “If that exclusion were based on the fact that that person would be more probable than any other candidate to abuse, we do not find that at this time.”
The $1.8 million study, commissioned by American Catholic bishops, was hoped by some to point fingers away from the church, but instead found exactly the opposite. Bishops, who had routinely protected pedophile priests from prosecution, were found to be a major contributing factor. “The dioceses did respond to many cases of abuse,” Terry said. “However, their responses focused primarily on priests rather than the victims. Their overwhelming focus was to find a resolution for the priests. . . . While the diocesan leadership showed concern for the well-being of the priest there was little evidence of concern for the well-being of the victims.”
So in typical, hypocritical Catholic form, they don’t want to take responsibility for their problems. Don’t blame the priests or the absurd abstinence requirements! Might as well blame those altarboys for having nice, tight asses that just beg to be fondled! Sure, that makes much more sense, using Catholic-logic!
The study, while still ongoing, has revealed some interesting facts. Instead of finding men had entered the priesthood in order to have access to children, they found that the vast majority of abusing priests were “ordinary men” who had a range of victims and who were also found to have committed other crimes and indiscretions similar to abusive personalities in the outside world. Very few of the abusing priests were found to be either true pedophiles or homosexuals.
The final John Jay report is expected to answer the question of why bishops did not act to protect children they knew, for a fact, were being abused. That doesn’t seem to be much in question, after all, it’s the official mandate from the Vatican that molesting priests be protected and kept away from criminal prosecution. In the end, it’s more about public opinion and less about actually giving a damn about the people that keeps these crimes cropping up.
But this is Catholic-logic. Point fingers at everyone else, don’t admit guilt and above all else, never, ever pretend that you might have to change your primitive ways. It makes me wonder why they paid for the study in the first place.
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