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September 22, 2005

Prejudice and perversion

Would it ever occur to the Catholic Church that sexual predation of juveniles in the ranks of its clergy might be the result of the church's moral condemnation of a naturally occurring preference, which causes adherents trapped between faith and their own biology to become celibate priests in a desperate attempt to flee or suppress their true selves? And then the clerical training combusts, in some, with bitterness, self-denial, self-preservation, and still-powerful physical drives to fuel a God/martyr complex that enables them to victimize the young in the name of a church by which they themselves have felt victimized?

You know, as opposed to the predation being the result of just the original preference?

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Posted by: thp at September 23, 2005 8:51 AM