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Donohue: Catholic Abuse Scandals 'Not Pedophilia'

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/01/2010 12:25:25 pm PDT

re: #69 Bagua

You’re missing the point. It’s not that celibacy causes pedophilia.

It’s that an institution that requires celibacy runs two risks:

A) People with pedophilic tendencies who want to control them may believe that a celibate environment is good for helping them keep control over their urges, and so may be drawn to the priesthood.

B) Requiring that your membership be sexually unusual makes it harder to discern which of them are dangerously sexually abnormal.