Virtue Online reports that Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire has written an "open letter" to the Pope telling him in no uncertain terms that the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church is about pedophilia and that he has it all wrong about homosexuals.
Because if you can't learn morality and the abilty of people to discipline their appetites from a priest who abandoned his wife in order to have a homosexual affair, who can you learn from?
Robinson writes:
He wrote, "As a gay man, I know the pain and the verbal and physical violence that can come from the thoroughly debunked myth connecting homosexuality and the abuse of children. In the media, representatives of and advocates for the Roman Catholic Church have laid blame for sexual abuse at the feet of gay priests. These people know, or should know, that every reputable scientific study shows that homosexuals are no more or less likely to be child abusers than heterosexuals. Psychologically healthy homosexual men are no more drawn to little boys than psychologically healthy heterosexual men are drawn to little girls.Well, perhaps throwing homosexuals out of the seminary won't end all pedophilia, but apparently it would have ended around 85% of the cases that are smearing the good name of the 98% Catholic priests who do adhere to their vow of celibacy, unlike the 1.7% of priests that comprise homosexuals with ephobophiliac tendencies.
"Sexual activity with children or teenagers is child abuse, pure and simple. Meaningful consent is impossible, by definition, for the underaged. You will not rid your church of sexual abuse by throwing homosexuals out of your seminaries or out of the priesthood. Homosexual priests have faithfully and responsibly served God throughout Catholic history. To scapegoat them and deprive them of their pulpits is a tragedy for the people they serve and for the church. Yours is a problem of abuse, not sexual orientation."
Now whether the cost of including disciplined homosexuals in a simple rule exceeds the benefits of eliminating 85% of the claims that have disgraced the clergy is a matter of prudential judgment by those in charge. I'm inclined to think that at this moment, given the social prejudice against Catholic priests, it probably is worth it.
Virtue Online offers this on the differential attitude of the press toward reporting Catholic scandals vis a vis Episcopal scandals:
Not to put a too fine point on it, a gay Episcopal activist, Frank Lombard, a Duke University official was arrested in Raleigh, NC on pedophile charges he molested his own children. He claimed that he was a "fan of New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson."
Or what about the case of the convicted pedophile Episcopal Priest Lynn C. Baumann who was allowed to host a spiritual retreats with Presiding Bishop's blessing!
In an exchange of correspondence with David Clohessy, National Director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Mrs. Jefferts Schori, through her Pastoral Development Officer Bishop F. Clayton Matthews, said Baumann could function as a spiritual retreat master on the understanding that "Mr. Baumann's contact (is) to adults only".
One should point out to Robinson that despite all the fine talk about how high the standards are now for sexual abuse being spotted and dealt with in TEC, as recently as February of this year, an 82-year old Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Central New York was charged with multiple counts each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, and corruption of a minor. He got away with it for years.
Stories VOL wrote at that time suggested a possible cover-up of the priest's sexual activities by Episcopal Bishop Gladstone (Skip) Adams. Why did we hear nothing from Robinson about these cases when they erupted in the press?
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"Psychologically healthy homosexual men"
Tricky little lie using this misnomer, but not tricky enough.
"Psychologically healthy homosexual men are no more drawn to little boys than psychologically healthy heterosexual men are drawn to little girls."
Aren't the priests who are molesting boys homosexuals?
Seriously, do these homosexuals honestly believe they're 'psychologically healthy' and fit to don priest's vestments, or have the Episcopalians been overcome with a death wish to implode?
I am glad someone is doing an analysis of who has abused children/adolescents. That is so necessary. Robinson can say whatever he wants, but everyone knows that the Homosexual Network exists. It has impacted many a setting by now, however insidiously.
I recently read Good Bye Good Men by Michael Rose which discusses seminary life in the past 40 years, and tries to outline from the perspective of seminarians, many of who left, how it has impacted our Church during these last 50 years or so. Our Pope is abosolutely on the right track.
The statistical information for Catholic priests unmistakably points to the problem being homosexuals engaging in "ephobophilia", not heterosexuals being turned into pedophiles by celibacy.
The issue is one of "framing" - namely, was the scandal going to be used by leftists to attack traditional Catholic sexuality, or by rightists to attack homosexuals in the clergy. The leftists have by and large won the framing war, despite the evidence against them, and statements such as those by Robinson are evidence that there is worry that the "frame" could change.
"...and statements such as those by Robinson are evidence that there is worry that the "frame" could change."
Change in what way, PSB?
The "frame" could change from celibacy being the cause of the homosexual ephobophilia scandal to homosexuality being the cause of the homosexual ephobophilia scandal.
It is simply amazing how everyone knows that 85% of the scandal involves homosexuality, but homosexuality as the predominant factor has simply been ruled "off limits." One way this has been done is to jump on anyone who dares state the obvious with both feet.
Willfully ignoring reality is a liberal trait, and frankly, I'm finding it increasingly nauseating.
I hope you're correct about this change because I'm beginning to believe that the liberals are laboring to create world where sanity is 'off limits.'
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