The Vatican appears in need of a serious media consultant. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the UN, has issued a defense that boils down to insisting that implicated priests were not pedophiles but homosexuals who liked young boys — and besides no more than five percent of priests had sex with children . . . and Jews and Protestants do it more.
Tomasi made his confrontational statement following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, insisting only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse. Tomasi seems to think that the faithful can rest assured that the likelihood that the priest will sexually assault your child is only 5 out of every 100 priests. Those are odds that are viewed as more than adequate in Vegas.
He also insisted that it is more likely that your child will be abused by Protestant or Jewish religious leaders — making the Catholic Church a virtual safe zone if you are going on purely the average likelihood of a rape. That could lead to a new campaign: “Go Catholic: We are Statistically Less Likely to Rape Your Child.”
Besides, Tomasi insisted “[o]f all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17.” He insisted most of the accused priests are homosexuals who simply liked younger partners.
The angry response came after Keith Porteous Wood of the International Humanist and Ethical Union accused the Church of covering up child abuse and being in breach of several articles under the Convention on the Rights of the Child: “The many thousands of victims of abuse deserve the international community to hold the Vatican to account, something it has been unwilling to do, so far. Both states and children’s organizations must unite to pressure the Vatican to open its files, change its procedures worldwide, and report suspected abusers to civil authorities.”
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What is wring with owning a gay hotel? Do you believe that they don’t have a right to live in peace? Humm, me thinks you would be please at least you’d know where not to stay, or in your case, where you could get shacked up for the night.
lil billy’s wanker,
1 )What the hell is this? “perdophile gay priests”
2) Fox news.com “Shanley co-owned Gay Hotel in California?
Who in their right might believes that Fox news is unbiased?
Certainly you do!!!!!
Just some of the Greatest Hits, “hundreds more”. Just type in (on any search engine, Pedophiles and Homosexuality”. The data is staggering). 1) Fox news.com “Shanley co-owned Gay Hotel in California.2) Gay Culture in Catholic Church grows Link: Gay Culture in Catholic church grows.3) Link: Confessions of a Gay Priest by David France. “My good little bloggers”, when you read these articles , just go back to whatever search engine you wish. Homosexuality and perdophile gay priests are synoymous. Seems the only people that don’y get it are you guys. Bruins are comin’ back second half to go.
Wayne:
Get help for yourself. People injured by priests can get through it. Take a page from Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s life.
You’re a survivor Wayne, posting here doesn’t get you closer to being well and balanced.
The Roman Catholic Priests can be quite the wildebeest.
Undressed with the young in flesh pushed against our chest does something to my while I’m in my dress.
I adore people like Billy, not afraid to give us wet Willies and for that we shall return until we are spurned and at teh stake we are burned.
It was all the child’s fault for giving us these wild thoughts.
For that we have been brought, to our knees in these deep thought.
For Billy we are pleased.
For that we’ll drop to our knees and help him clean up this sneeze with a little forethought.
We know it is not diseased, because we are here to please.
This was more than just a thought and for that we should be shot.
We have been able to escape, the realities of our disease.
It was only in thought until we were taught that we’d never get caught.
We soon found that we could place the blame and never have to deal with the shame like we ought.
Because silence can be bought.
We found out too that the courts were a zoo.
And though them we could ooze, like the judge that snoozed.
The blame is the same and protestants are too.
We found out that once again we could blame the Jews.
Wouldn’t you?
Go bruins! UCLA Fight! Fight! Fight! Big game in Palo Alto. I love livin’ in the tall grass…..
A blog full of homosexual socialists, beautiful. And stupid at that.
So are you saying that this is Buddha’ Urine Myrmidon? Tsk, Tsk, what would Zeus have though of next?
CCD:
this blog is supposed to be educational as well as fun.
Blog lobster twit, yes yes well played!
Bryon, had to look up myrmidon. 🙂
Clear as glass.
Buddha:
I did not mean to slight young ladies that show their equipment for beads, I was talking about actual ladies of the evening. the ones that take money for sex and were probably abused either physically or psychologically as children. The ones that are not able to form lasting relationships because of that emotional trauma as children. That is what I was comparing billy to.
I hope this clarifies things.
Regards,
Buddha’s myrmidon
billy:
from my earlier post I wrote:
“I happen to think based on my experience and what I have read about this issue that pedophilia is a sexual orientation all to itself.”
It was pointed out to me that it probably isn’t a sexual orientation but a clinical abnormality and I agree upon further thought.
But you are still a blog lobster, 2 claws and a very small brain.
“You came in here sucking up to everybody, like a whore at Mardi Gras.”
Byron,
I don’t want to nitpick but there is a “w” in that and it’s singular, not plural. Wayne didn’t show us his tits, Wayne showed us he is a twit. That’s a totally different payoff for throwing beads than I’m conditioned to from my years in New Orleans. Not nearly as friendly as the traditional version of the greeting, that much is for sure.
I really was hoping that Billy would be another welcome addition to the gang here, offering new perspectives and a Gee Whiz attitude, that made me think of smart, new younger folk, just as Foo has been so welcome and addition. When he “morphed” into an older mental health professional, belied by the youthful verbosity of his posts, I was nevertheless glad to have a member with a similar background to mine, albeit a differing perspective, to add to the psychological perspective in the commentary. However, gradually I began to see a pattern that was incongruent.
“Billy,” even while disagreeing was lavishing excessive “flattery” on me, but it was a “flattery” that could be read ironically from the word choice. My intellectual reaction was “Hunh, what is he really saying” rather than “wasn’t that nice.” Then on the Israel thread, as Bob and I vied for who could be the most verbose and put more to sleep
with our arcane arguments at, rather than with eachother, Billy flitted in and out and called me an anti-Catholic bigot. He followed that up most peculiarly with disbelief that I could have grown up in Catholic homes, attended Masses and even like RCC people. That was passing strange and slowly Buddha’s early unmasking of Wayne, began to penetrate my often slow on the uptake brain, but I was yet to be convinced. Others like Mespo, CCD, CEJ and Mike A. beat me to the punch, but in re-reading all the 168 posts on this thread the lightbulb has lit up my brain and I must conclude Wayne has again reincarnated.
Most annoying about Billy/Waynes posts here has been that he has never once answered the question that Buddha and I posed which is how do you justify the protection and cover-up of these Priests by the RCC. That is the central question and he has obfuscated instead of answering it.
Secondly, the bragging has passed from the annoying to the tedious and fantastical:
“I hold two masters degrees from two of the finest public universities in the land. I held a 3.90 GPA.”
George Bush held a BA from Yale and a Masters from Harvard. Ho hum.
Thirdly, for someone who claims work and credentials as a mental health professional:
“Everyone knows that homosexuals are “notorious” when it comes to fidelity”
This, in tandem with assertions that intertwine pedophillia with homosexuality lead me to worry about the patients coming to the MH facility Billy/Wayne purportedly works in. It goes against most beliefs in the field and is a peculiar skew from one who has by his statements shown him to have greater belief in psychological orthodoxy than I. Same skew is seen religiously in the death penalty question.
“My set of statistics are overwhelming, in fact, quite staggering. If you were to look at the statistics of pedophilia, within the church, you will find that it is “impossible”, in fact nearly inconceivable to have this “disproportionate” number of active pedohiles residing, “all at once” in the “demographic” of the church. And applying almost 100% to those in the priesthood, with over 95% of the molestaion taking place with boys!”
Since no citation is proffered than let me inform him that MY set of statistics shows his is totally wrong. Nyanh!
It seems we are on a site with an inordinate number of anti-Catholic bigots. I’ve been called that and I think Mespo too, besides:
“Like I said in my post this morning buddha, you are a “bigot”, a “paranoid bigot”..”
“CEJ, does the word “bigot”, strike a chord with you?”
It seems that evertime this reversion to name calling comes up it comes after a telling point is made against one of his arguments, which he seems unable to refute.
Finally, the denouement comes with the phony macho and bravado in the poses he adapts, mixed with a fantastical view of the purported details of his life. It was so striking that I couldn’t resist satirizing it on the Israel thread. Sorry Billy/Wayne you would be a good fit here if you could rise above the more than neurotic quirks you exhibit.
billy:
I don’t know what people that don’t like relationships are called other than maybe sociopaths or misogynists. That is not what I asked anyway. All I asked for was a source and then you accuse me of sucking up to Buddha.
Is that your idea of validating your argument? You are a silly man/boy/woman/girl. I happen to think based on my experience and what I have read about this issue that pedophilia is a sexual orientation all to itself. The RCC should use some sort of MMPI type test to see if they can root out child molesters.
But this celibacy thing should go, it was instituted by the Church around 1200 AD because of worries about church property. You want to get rid of pedophiles and clean up the RCC then let priests marry.
I actually thought you were intelligent based on your other posts, I have been proven wrong. All I asked for was a source, a reasonable request in my mind and you come back with “he’s sucking up to Buddha”.
Based on that post I think Buddha is right, you are some sort of sociopath. You came in here sucking up to everybody, like a whore at Mardi Gras. I thought you were up to something then and it looks like I was right.
AY:
No need to apologize. As Mike S and Patty C discovered you can always tell it’s him by the rampant insecurity. Soon he will tell us he’s the Governor of New Mexico (as Pat Harrington used to say on the sitcom”One Day At A Time.”)
mespo,
In the words of the Bard, “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”. I will admit it was funny watching him try to control himself and the blatant kissing up, but in the end, he’s still crazy ol’ wayne.
In Re: billy, lil billy, Billy, wayne, waynesboro:
I am very apologetic for my role in debating with this person. It appears that he takes different strokes and tactics with each and everyone on this site. Then turn into “why are you victimizing me?” enough of that. I just won’t respond.
Buddha:
Didn’t you like “billy” better when he was in his “waynebro” sporting his mountain man persona? He’s just a little to self-aggrandizing now. I liked the play for sympathy guy we all came to detest.