Well, it’s getting late and I’d better get something written and get to bed, but it’s a depressing news day, and I’m not really in a negative mood.
Zombie Ronald Reagan
There was the story about the guy who is selling a vial of Ronald Reagan’s blood, because he believes that that’s what Ronald Reagan would approve of if he were alive and he’s a big fan of Reaganomics. I guess karma still keeps going even after you’re dead.
That’s kind of morbid. I was no fan of Ronald Reagan’s, but leave the man’s bodily fluids alone. It’s not like anybody’s planning on cloning him, or….oh, fuck.
Then there’s the Franciscan Academy scandal, apparently there are thousands and thousands of pages of documentation, I really can’t imagine what that means. They kept sex diaries? There were love letters?
Sorry to be so vague, I failed to note the specific name in the story and when I googled “Franciscan Academy Scandal” I just got pages and pages of stuff. Surprise, huh?
Anyway, the line that struck me was that there was proof that this went back “decades.” Well, I see no reason to think there was a sudden trigger “decades” ago to start the ball rolling. If there’s one thing that history teaches us, it’s that people have always fundamentally been people. And a certain percentage of them have always been gay men. And the Catholic Church has always been a logical avenue of employment for those gay men, because nobody would be asking those annoying questions about when are you going to get married and have a baby.
I’m not saying the Catholic Church is evil, there are hundreds of millions of Catholics around the world, and most of them are fine people. But, when you demand that your priests be celibate, what did you expect?
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The money line: “people have always fundamentally been people.” That’s the sad part: you can take the man out of the stone age, but you can’t take the stone age out of the man.
I’m gonna have to pick a bone with you, hon. ‘Gay’ is not synonomous with ‘pedophile’. Perhaps the sentence should read: “…and a certain percentage of them have always been pedophiles.”
Also, celebacy doesn’t have anything at all to do with molesting children. Many people have gone years at a time without sex or a relationship, and have never had the urge to touch children inappropriately during those times.
Kirsten, you are absolutely right on both counts.
Still, a man who has a hankering for underage boys could not pick a better profession than the priesthood, and that’s been true for the last two millenia.
You’re wrong Kristen, necrophilia, homosexuality, pedophilia.. etc etc are all of the same. It has been proven in psychology to be of the same nature so go sit and re-educate yourself instead of editing people and facts to your own favor.
Sorry, Kristen.