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MineralMan

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1. Homosexuality does not cause child sexual abuse.

Reply to Cuthbert Allgood (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2018, 01:27 PM

Sep 2018

That is not to say that setting up a patriarchal, male-only structure that requires celibacy isn't attractive to gay men. But that has nothing to do with child sexual abuse. It's more a structural issue among the clergy, really.

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Good News: RCC Leadership knows the cause of the abuse--it's the gay priests! [View all] Cuthbert Allgood Sep 2018 OP

Homosexuality does not cause child sexual abuse. MineralMan Sep 2018 #1

I know gay priests that don't abuse kids. Cuthbert Allgood Sep 2018 #4

Stunning, I agree. MineralMan Sep 2018 #5

Wow, that's new edhopper Sep 2018 #2

Just a few years ago they were blaming the victims for seducing their rapists. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2018 #3

It is a criminal cartel. Voltaire2 Sep 2018 #6