re: #165 Sheepdogess

AIUI the vast majority of those abused were adolecent males. A pedophile is a person who engages in sex with a prepubescent child. They were not pedophile priests, they were sexual predators who molested “children”.

Whatever definitions you’re using, it’s still asinine to say that all of the abusers are automatically homosexual just because there were male victims. It’s not that simple. The point still stands that most of these abusers were likely themselves abused and are just repeating the cycle.

It’s not PC to avoid painting all abusive priests as gay. Calling them all gay just gives the Church a convenient scapegoat and prevents any real action from being taken to stop these kinds of abuses, since they can just point to a few “bad apples” brought in due to lower standards or whatever, and any real progress at cleaning the Church up will never happen.