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   From: obama@big.mike   
      
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   > I wear dresses and blow guys for rent money.  Does that make me a queer?   
      
   A German cardinal, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, is in a lot of trouble for   
   pointing out the obvious: the problem in today’s Catholic Church is   
   homosexuality and its inescapable link to pedophilia.   
      
   The sexual abuse of boys by Catholic clergy is now a mushroom cloud   
   hanging over the Catholic Church, threatening its stability and its   
   future. The issue burst into the open with the revelation in the summer of   
   2018 that six dioceses in Pennsylvania had been covering up at least 1,000   
   instances of child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests over the course of   
   decades.   
      
   A study commissioned by the German Bishops Conference and published last   
   year “found that more than 3,600 children were sexually abused by Catholic   
   clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014.”   
      
   Cardinal Brandmüller was a bit too quick to deflect blame from the   
   Catholic Church itself, by blaming the whole problem on homosexuality. But   
   they invited this scandal when it began allowing homosexuals to enter its   
   seminaries in the 1960s. They did so because of the difficulty of   
   recruiting young men into the priesthood who quite naturally wanted to   
   marry and have families.   
      
   As more and more homosexuals flooded seminaries and then went into the   
   priesthood, a culture of homosexuality was fostered in the church with all   
   its attendant pathologies.   
      
   One pathology that LGBT activists will not acknowledge is the unmistakable   
   connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. The American Professional   
   Society on the Abuse of Children stated flatly that “the vast majority of   
   the offenders are male.” (The information in these paragraphs is found in   
   the publication, “The Top Ten Myths About Homosexuality” from the Family   
   Research Council.)   
      
   The Journal of Sex & Married Therapy, in a study of male sex offenders   
   against children, found that one-third of the offenders directed their   
   sexual activity against males. And the Journal of Sex Research found that   
   homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of sex   
   offenses against children.   
      
   This fact is particularly disturbing. Homosexuals comprise just two   
   percent of the population, yet are responsible for 33% of all child sexual   
   abuse. They offend against children at 16 times the rate of the normal   
   population.   
      
   The Archives of Sexual Behavior, in a study of 229 convicted child   
   molesters, found that “eighty-six percent of offenders against males   
   described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.”   
      
   Thus it comes as no surprise to discover that research into the priesthood   
   scandal in the Catholic Church reveals that 81% of the victims of clergy   
   abuse are young boys.   
      
   Now this is most certainly not to say that every priest or even most   
   priests are pedophiles. The great majority, of course, are not. But some,   
   in fact too many, are and that’s the problem.   
      
   Fortunately, the Catholic Church for the first time seems to be taking   
   firm steps to deal with this, by making men with same-sex proclivities   
   ineligible for the priesthood. If they had established this standard in   
   1960, thousands upon thousands of children would have been spared the   
   life-altering trauma of sexual abuse.   
      
   The Catholic Church is also taking the first tentative steps to allow   
   married priests. An unmarried priesthood is a practice that dates only   
   from the 14th century and does not go back to the beginning of the   
   Catholic Church. There’s nothing biblical or apostolic about it. They must   
   make this move soon because this scandal could take the Catholic Church   
   down.   
      
   If the Catholic Church needs inspiration for the change, they need only   
   look at the man they consider the first Pope, the Apostle Peter. He was a   
   married man, who had a mother-in-law whom Jesus healed from a fever and a   
   wife with whom he traveled in his apostolic journeys.   
      
   Bottom line: if the first “pope” could be married, every priest after him   
   should have the same privilege. The Catholic Church will be stronger,   
   priests will be happier, and children will be much safer.   
      
   https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2019/01/the-inescapable-link-   
   between-homosexuality-and-pedophilia/   
      
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