[QUOTE=Jim in CT;1224590]
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
"You seem to be very afraid "
You seem to not be able to distinguish between afraid and annoyed. Those are very different things.
"Do you actually think that “straight” people are in more danger from LGBTQ people than LGBTQ are from “straight”?
In general, no I don't think that. Not sure how you could have concluded I do think that. I am sure that group suffers a lot of abuse, stress, loneliness, despair. They don't deserve that.
That doesn't mean that men deserve to be able to go to the bathroom with women or little girls, nor does it mean we have to tell women they can't compete in sports.
You do know that two things can be true at the same time and not be equivalent, don't you?
"You do know that being a child abuser is not the same as being LGBTQ?"
Yes I do know that, again what did I veer say, that could POSSIBLY lead you to conclude I don't know that.
(He doesn't even need to do that. All he needs to do is say "I'm a woman", like that child molester who said hes a woman after he got arrested, so that he can get sentenced to a womans prison. He looks like a man, dresses like a man, just said "I'm a woman", and poof! he's a woman.)
"Maybe you should consider that no other institution has the long history of enabling child abusers that the church you fund does"
Can you prove that please? The catholic church has an abysmal record on this matter, as do other religions, doctors, therapists, and for damn sure public schoolteachers. Yet I've only ever seen you talk about Catholics when it comes to child abusers. Why is that? The answer, is that you only care about the issue when it helps you politically.
Round 'em up and execute them for all I care. But it's not a problem isolated to the Catholic church. The media just frames it that way for political reasons.
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I cite the Catholic Church because no other organization in the world has ever had a systemic child abuse and institutional coverup anywhere near as widespread as the Catholic Church.
A Church-commissioned report in 2004 said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children - mostly boys.
About 333,000 children were abused within France's Catholic Church, a report finds
A 2009 report found that sexual and psychological abuse was "endemic" in Catholic-run industrial schools and orphanages in Ireland for most of the 20th Century.
Theodore McCarrick, a former Roman Catholic cardinal in the US, was defrocked over claims he sexually assaulted a teenager in New York in the early 1970s. Mr McCarrick - thought to be the highest-ranking US Catholic to face sex abuse charges - has said he has "no recollection" of the alleged abuse, and pleaded not guilty at a US court last month
The Catholic Church in Scotland announced that it was setting up an independent watchdog to deal with abuse complaints against members of the clergy following a number of sex scandals where the church was accused of failing to respond to concerns
Germany's top Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, earlier this year offered his resignation over child sex abuse scandals, saying it was important to him "to share the responsibility for the catastrophe". However, the Pope later rejected his resignation
In November 2020, New York's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the Buffalo Catholic Diocese, alleging its leaders protected priests accused of child sex abuse. The diocese has pledged "full cooperation" with authorities
French priest Bernard Preynat was sentenced to five years in prison in March 2020 for sexually abusing dozens of children in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. During his trial, he told the court he had not understood how serious or grave his crimes were
Australian Cardinal George Pell - the most senior Catholic figure ever jailed for such crimes - had his conviction for child abuse overturned in April 2020 and was freed from prison. Australia's High Court judges agreed that the jury had not properly considered all the evidence presented at the trial. The former senior adviser to the Pope had consistently maintained his innocence.