Part two continues from last week. But for now, read this:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/12/catholic-group-says-children-raped-by-priests-were-participants-not-victims/
The anti-gay Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is going on the attack against "those who are distorting the truth about priestly sexual abuse."
The group bought an expensive full-page ad in The New York Times Monday that places the blames for the church's scandals on "homosexuality, not pedophilia."
And perhaps most shockingly, it also claimed that some children were active participants in the abuse.
"The refrain that child rape is a reality in the Church is twice wrong: let’s get it straight -- they weren’t children and they weren’t raped," self-appointed Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote in the ad.
"We know from the John Jay study that most of the victims have been adolescents, and that the most common abuse has been inappropriate touching (inexcusable though this is, it is not rape)," he added, referencing a 2004 study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which was funded by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"The Boston Globe correctly said of the John Jay report that 'more than three-quarters of the victims were post pubescent, meaning the abuse did not meet the clinical definition of pedophilia.' In other words, the issue is homosexuality, not pedophilia," Donohue wrote.
"What accounts for the relentless attacks on the Church?" he asked in conclusion. "Let's face it: if its teachings were pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage and pro-women clergy, the dogs would have been called off years ago."
Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, a pro-gay Catholic group, told The Advocate that there were "so many problems with what Mr. Donohue is saying."
She pointed out that Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) figures showed that half of those abused are female.
"He avoids what is in many ways the larger sin -- the cover-up and enabling of abuse," she added.
Playlist
Sex Vatican 11
Alleee 1
Sonic Youth * Wish Fulfillment
Steve Gray * Snowdrops and Raindrops
Sex Crimes 12
Famous Four * Mother's Love
Clive Hicks * Storytime
Sex Crimes 13
Sister Minnie Pearl Roberts * You Make Your Troubles so Hard
Harpist's Bazaar * Try to Remember
Sex Crimes 14
The Main Street Singers * Sabbath Prayer
Isao Tomita * Air on the G-String
Sex Crimes 15
Ray Nobel and the New Mayfair Orchestra * Repeal the Blues
Ennio Morricone * Mesa Verde
Sex Crimes 16
Britten * Interlude for Harp
David Bowie * Heroes
Sex Crimes 17
Bob Incarnate
Unauthorized Scientology Pageant * Rain
Sex Crimes 18
Bikini Kill * Suck my Left One
Johnny Scott * Roses Today
Sex Crimes 19
Crass * Securicor
Laurie Johnson * Chase That Car!
Sex Crimes 20
Alleee 2
Le Tigre * Keep on Livin'
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