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Sunday, June 4th, 2017

US Bishops’ Report Proves Clerical Sex Abuse Is a Homosexual Crisis

Author:     Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th.
Source:     Church Militant
Publication Date:     June 2, 2017
Link: US Bishops’ Report Proves Clerical Sex Abuse Is a Homosexual Crisis
Stephan:   The Church Militant is a rightwing anti-homosexual, anti-woman website. But in this instance they report accurate data. From which they draw the wrong conclusions in my view, but the data itself is important.  There is a cohort of homosexual men who find the priesthood attractive. Some seek out young boys, often of the age when they themselves had a first imprinting sexual experience, and larger group who seek out contemporaries, just as there are heterosexual priests who molest girls or, more likely who enter into discreet sexual liaisons with female contemporaries.  There has always been, and will always be a sexual problem in a celibate Roman Catholic Church. The major difference between past and present, in my opinion is that media now exists and covers it. Celibacy works as an individual choice, but not as a requisite for institutional membership.

WASHINGTON — A new report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) confirms that the clerical sex abuse scandal is a crisis not of pedophilia but of homosexuality.

The USCCB annual report on clerical sex abuse, released Thursday, confirms earlier findings that the priest sex abuse crisis is a homosexual problem. According to the report, “Eighty-one percent of the victims were male,” and when the age of the victim was determined, only “one in ten were under age ten.” The report further confirmed that these findings were “similar to those reported for year 2015.”

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice reported similar findings. After the sex abuse crisis exploded in the media in 2002 following the Boston Globe exposé, the USCCB created a National Review Board and tasked the John Jay College to conduct an investigation into clerical sex abuse. The College’s 2004 report revealed that 80 percent of the victims were male, and almost 90 percent were post-pubescent. A report issued in 2011 affirmed these facts, finding 81 percent of sex abuse victims were boys, of […]

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