Article about priests and pedophilia

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Originally posted by Griff
You seem to be combining two unrelated subjects, marriage in the priesthood and pedophelia. As a "normal" heterosexual male, I can assure you that celibacy, while certainly not my first choice in lifestyle, would not lead me to pedophelia.

Those who are not getting any will do irrational things. It is the classic example of using the head on your shoulders to think - or one between the legs. There is no logical thinking from the head between legs - which means sex may come from many forms - without any consideration to the consequences.

If a priest cannot have a sexual partner, he may just as easily find one among those least likely to 'out' him - children. Pedophilia, like all other sexual acts, is less likely when males are not horny. A horny male will do things he otherwise would not do. If every Priest is horny, then how on earth is he to not be driven by the wrong head?

Celibacy is as perverted as the "don't eat meat on Friday" nonsense - except with more disasterous consequences. Pedophilia is only officially exposed first and recently in the US. It is worldwide among Catholic priests - we can safely bet. The church's long standing actions were to transfer pedophiles where they could not be located by victims. Sometimes that even meant a transfer to Rome.

That 8% number was reported maybe a decade ago. Long since forgotten the source. I may have even quoted one of those articles back in an earlier version Mark X of The Cellar. Maybe 60 Minutes was the source? But 8% was suggested in at least two different, major news sources. It is an educated guess by those familiar with the problem that long ago. But the number does reflect how serious the problem has been known and officially ignored.