Recently, the champions of offenses against chastity have latched on to a peculiar argument: Saying homosexual acts are a sin causes guilt, which causes people to commit suicide; therefore saying it is a sin is killing people. When you ask the obvious question, “Ok, how do we prevent suicide AND make it unambiguously clear that homosexual acts are a sin?” the responses ranging from crickets chirping to hem-hawing indicate that suicide isn’t the real objection and that this argument is really an elaborate way to say, “Shut up!”
Well, apparently now it’s the pedophiles’ turn.
There’s an additional reality that may be hard to accept, but that must be faced if we’re serious about combating suicide. Some adolescents discover they’re preferentially attracted to children or younger adolescents, and this stays with them throughout their lives. Most of us want to believe that only older adults have such feelings, but sexual feelings don’t suddenly appear in adulthood. Experts estimate that in puberty, 1% to 7% of all boys first experience preferential attraction to younger children that will be lifelong. In a recent survey, adults attracted to children or young adolescents reported they first experienced these feelings at a median age of 13.
One comment there was that perhaps certain Catholic diocese should ask for their money back.
Seattle is way ahead of ya– they put a rapist into a high school after a year or two in jail for assaulting little kids, only told one administrator who only told one or two others. Did not tell any of the parents, because that would violate the rapist’s rights. Only came out because he groomed and assaulted a “developmentally disabled” girl. (No idea what level of disabled– could mean anything from dyslexic through severely retarded development. Either way, she was brighter than the school administrators who knew about the sex offender, because she told a teacher what had happened.)
Oh, hey, lookie– that BBC spinoff of a spinoff of Dr. Who has a rapist pedophile protagonist, too! It’s getting to where the only way to scandalize interaction with under-aged girls is if you bother to get married, first.
(sidetracked: What is the proper plural of diocese? Diocesi? Dioceses? Die-awsa-sigh sounds right, but I bet die-awsa-sees-is gets used…or is it one of those words like “deer” that’s singular and plural?)
that BBC spinoff of a spinoff of Dr. Who has a rapist pedophile protagonist
Uh oh. I wonder if Dr. Who fan LarryD has a comment.
What is the proper plural of diocese?
For some reason, I thought it was like “deer”, but a google search consensus seems to favor “dioceses”. I guess I should research since it will come up often on a Catholic blog
P.S. Got a link to the Seattle story?
Here’s one for Seattle.
I’d guess LarryD will agree with Suburban Banshee.
I don’t watch Torchwood – seen one episode, didn’t like it. Too many immoral issues for me to support it. The one Foxfier cited just reinforces my decision.