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freethought6t9 said:Yes, but as the media reported there were many examples of instances where the situation was not cleared up, but covered up, putting more children at risk. I tend to agree that the media hammers home paedophillia stories, but this is not due to an anti-catholic bias, rather a sensationalist bias. That is in fact the point I originally came into this thread to make.
I live in Britain, it has a small catholic community, an as far as I know we have had very little coverage of priests molesting children, yet the sensationalist media is constantly child abuse scandals. And in the instances where police incompetence, neglect or duplicity has occurred, the story will be incessantly covered for weeks. So by your logic, the British press is anti police.
While an argument could be made that some publications in the British press do carry a certain anti-authoritarian attitude (incorrectly in my opinion), these same publications are the ones who avoid sentationalist stories. The papers that cover these stories incessantly are the most pro-police publications in the country on the majority of issues.
JOHNYJ said:The Media in general is anti-Catholic. When the Catholic churches pedophilia scandal broke. The Media took the oppurtunity to Bash the Catholic church. Bad as what had happened was,the Media made it worse ! There was no attempt at balance.
In any other story there would be some sign of Balance. There was no attempt to see how bad pedophilia was in other religions, or among married clergy.
The media is anti-Catholic because the Catholic church is not liberal,it still has permanent beliefs. Unlike some churches that let contemporary fads decide what they believe.
Your conjunction of homosexual and pedophile is inappropriate; there is no
connection between the two.
Navy Pride said:The irony of the Catholic Priest scandal is that less then 1% of all Catholic priests were identified as gay pedophiles........If you listen to the Liberal media you would think that the percentage of offenders was about 90%...........
vergiss said:Funny how comparatively few kick up a fuss about the "straight" paedophiles. It would have been useful when I was eleven. Fcuking evil bastards.
Before anyone says anything, I'm not going to go there - except to say that I hope every single one of them gets castrated and ends up sharing a gaol cell with a prisoner who's looking been taking Viagra and is looking for a long-term relationship.
vergiss said:Hah. Not even half the time. Apparently, 11 year old girls are capable of "leading on" men in their late thirties... :roll:
Fcuking castrate them or lock them away for life, I don't care which. What people don't get is that paedophilia is a perversion that has nothing to do with gender, nor is it merely just some sick fetish - grown adults of either sex simply cannot turn them on sexually, whereas children do. Rehabilitation doesn't work - they just keep on reoffending. So make it impossible for them to do so. Even better, send me in to do it.
Navy Pride said:If that is so then why do gay men only molest young boys and straight men only molest young girls????????
Thinker said:I don't know where you get that from. My knowledge of the subject is scanty,
but I understand that most pedophiles are not so much interested in the sex of
their victims but simply their prepubsecence. Sex is just a way for the pedophile
to exert power and control over children, in many cases of both sexes. There is
no connection between normal sexual attraction (straight/gay) and attraction
to children.
I would observe that "only...boys" is contradicted by "very few girls".Navy Pride said:Then why did the male priests only molest young boys? There were very few young girls molested..........Maybe you can clear that one up for me........
Thinker said:I would observe that "only...boys" is contradicted by "very few girls".
I suspect a bias could be the result of availability: there not being altar girls
(as far as I know) until recently. There are many more boys for the predators
than girls.
Navy Pride said:I suspect the few priests that molested yourng girls were BI or straight but the vast majority of the priests molested young boys and they were gay.......
Thinker said:You may suspect that. I'd rather stick to the accepted view of psychologists
who study these things in detail and have concluded that it's about power and
control, and nothing to do with sexuality.
The Media in general is anti-Catholic. When the Catholic churches pedophilia scandal broke. The Media took the oppurtunity to Bash the Catholic church. Bad as what had happened was,the Media made it worse ! There was no attempt at balance.
In any other story there would be some sign of Balance. There was no attempt to see how bad pedophilia was in other religions, or among married clergy.
The media is anti-Catholic because the Catholic church is not liberal,it still has permanent beliefs. Unlike some churches that let contemporary fads decide what they believe.
Navy Pride said:Well again I ask you how do you explain the disparity where 90% of the Priest molestors abused young boys?
Also there are just as many shrinks that say that gay males molest little
boys........It really depends om what side of the issue they are
on..............
Thinker said:Care to comment on the ratio of boys to girls in situations where abuse by
priests could have happened? I do not know the answer, but my Catholic
friends estimate it to be well above 90%. As I said before, the disparity is likely
to be caused by availability.
Please share the source of this "fact".
vergiss said:Guys, a paedophile is not gay or straight. He is just a paedophile. Full grown adults of either gender cannot sexually excite them, whereas children do - merely due to the fact that they're children.
Also, Navy Pride, there have been plenty of instances of priests in the Catholic church and other denominations assaulting little girls. Likewise, there've been paedophiles who've assaulted children of both genders. All that matters is the availability of children to molest.
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