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Justin, do you support Mike's disgusting views too?

Justin and Pat, can you please give Mike a little bipartisan help wiping the santorum off his face?

Mike,

I find your comment disgusting and reprehensible (similar to my feelings about the two men in the article you reference if found guilty as charged).

However, the only reason I feel this warrants a response is because of the connection you appear to be drawing between homosexuality and pedophilia. I graduated from Providence College during the same time that the Boston Church Scandal was going on. Our Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Father Guido, addressed this very same connection in the Cowl (student newspaper) that I think should be repeated here. I realize I am adding in the unrelated concept of the priesthood, but I am only posting this to respond to Mike's false connection above.

Father Guido's letter:

"The recent exchange of opinion between Joe McCormack '07 and Michael Rubin '08 on the matter of homosexuality, the preiesthood, and a forthcoming Vatican document bearing on both was heartening for the fact it addressed issues of importance and currency.
Nevertheless, I feel is is necessary to address several assertions that tend toward the innacurate and could be misleading. I do so as vice president for mission and ministry, as a psychologist who has published on the topic, and as a member of the bishop's advisory board for the protection of children and young people.
According to A Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States (2004), commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 81% of the victims of clerical sexual abuse were males, not 95% as reported by Michael Rubin quoting Peter and Paul Catholic Ministries.
The term pederasty is not a diagnostic or clinical term. Rather pedophilia is a disorder in which an individual has a sexual attraction to a pre-pubescent minor, whether male or female. While not in itself a recognized disorder, ephebophilia describes a sexual attraction to a post-pubescent minor. Most victims of clerical sexual abuse were adolescents at the time of the abuse.

I know of no scientific evidence that homosexuals are more likely to abuse minors than are heterosexuals. To suggest that homosexual priests (as homosexuals) are more likely to abuse minors than are heterosexual priests is to confuse correlation-the fact that most victims of clergy abuse are male-with causality-that homosexuality is the cause of the abuse of males. To date we do not know definitively why the abuse occurred or why so many victims were male.

The capacity for celibate chastity, and the ability to serve the people of God generously, selflessly and virtuously, must be assessed on an individual basis and demonstrated in multiple contexts, over time and to good effect. This standard should apply to all candidates for the priesthood.

Nationally, 12% of males and 17% of females are sexually abused before the age of 18. Most of the abuse is by family members, family friends or individuals known to the victim. More males are abused by females than by males while most females are abused by males. Sexual abuse by priests is therefore a grievous subset of a broad and pervasive problem that affects the lives of nearly one in seven people.
I hope these reflections are of help in some way. It has been one of the great privileges of my priesthood and my clinical work to help victims of sexual abuse recover and heal. Their courage, honesty and grace should move and inspire us all."

[Comment deleted. It contained some worthwhile points, though, and I hope the author will consider rewriting it minus the personal invective and inflammatory language. — JK]

Mike,

On just about every issue, if not every issue, I'm about 180 degrees away from the RI Future / "progressive" crowd.

So please take this as "constructive criticism" from someone inclined to be friendly to you - your choice of language (if not your diatribe) is not helping your cause.

It's inappropriate and just makes it easy for others to write-off your message because of the delivery.

Any remotely sane person can see that it is Criminal to place four 12 year old boys in the custody of a male "couple" who get sexual gratification ejaculating in the rectum's of other males.
The result (the 4 little boys being subjected to repeated anal penetration by their "fathers") did not require a Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Sam Spade or Jim Rockford to sleuth out.
NEVER would a 12 year old girl be put in the custody of an unrelated heterosexual single male-for reasons both obvious and sound. But little boys are being thrown to the wolves and sacrificed on the altar of promoting rectum-based marriage (aka "marriage equality").
Kim Ahern, Jerzyk and others I call you out for the filth you are in condoning the mass rape and torture of children in the name of your unnatural and perverse ideology.
I call out the NEA and the AFT as America's 2 largest pedophile organizations as any fool who is capable of googling the words "teacher sentenced" can readily see. This despite the complete blackout by the far-left "mainstream" media. This means you Ian "Walter Duranty" Donnis, self-proclaimed "journalist".

GREAT NEWS PROGRESSIVES!
All your lobbying must have paid off. Progressive AG Patrick Lynch (you know the one who attended the "wedding" of his sister to a woman) has just plea bargained the child rapists to a NO JAIL sentence.
Will they be partying at Local 121 tonight and picking out some new little boys to adopt tommorow at DCYF?

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Kudos to progressives for freeing the Bristol Two.

Just so's nothing is read into a non-answer to Pat:

What views are your referencing?

I am reading all this and I don't claim to be an expert on pedophiles,but my 26 years in law enforcement(NY State plus INS)certainly exposed me to plenty of them.The one thing they had in common was that the overwhelming majority were men,almost to the point of exclusivity.
Women were pretty rare as pedophile offenders.I never recall running into any lesbian pedophiles.
The men we dealt with often victimized family members,including their own children.
The point is,pedophiles,homosexual or heterosexual are subhumans and the only "therapy" they deserve is life imprisonment or death,but thanks to the Supreme Court we can only execute them if they kill the child,and then only where the ACLU hasn't gotten the death penalty abolished.
I had a relative who was repeatedly raped by her father as a child.He was not a blood relation to us.He apparently was "straight" because he didn't rape her brother.
I had a Guatemalan who was convicted for raping his six year old son.
I had an alien smuggler who was Mexican that got convicted of raping his daughter(she was over 18 so maybe he wasn't a pedophile,just a scumbag piece of filth),killing another man,and additionally he got away with beating his first wife to death.When I arrested him it was for,among other things holding an illegal alien female as a slave in his basement.Thank God he died awaiting sentencing,or he would be out and about today.
Why tell these stories?Because I have found that pedophiles are all about one thing:they like sex with children and feel entitled to it.They can be hetero- or homosexual.They are in a class by themselves when it comes to criminals.
My relative who got raped?She never recovered mentally and had nothing good in her life thereafter-her father got thrown out of the house-period.He should have been decapitated with a hacksaw.Back in those days people just swept it under the rug.
I don't blame homosexuals.I blame the ACLU for facilitating the ability of pedophiles to re-offend.
I'll end with an interesting piece of info.While assigned to Chicago I arrested dozens of (mostly)Mexican transvestite hookers.They frequently engaged in violent crimes,mainly strongarm robbery of "johns"and were generally a nuisance in whatever area they frequented.I never picked up a single one with an arrest record for pedophile offenses.I guess they weren't quite as screwed up as they appeared,although we were better off for sure with them deported.
I cannot believe a less than jail sentence for the two Bristol pedophiles.Is the AG out of his mind?
He also should prosecute whoever was responsible for supervising the placement as an accesory.I'm 100% serious about that.The DCYF officials exhibited depraved indifference.

I'm not sure how this turned into a discussion of pedophilia, which is 100% unrelated to homosexuality. The main article has one glaring issue - the sole purpose of marriage and sexual intercourse is procreation. Are married heterosexual couples living in "sin" if they got married knowing they did not want children and have no plans to have children? Are they living in sin if they aren't physically capable of having children (one or both are sterile)?

As someone who went through many years of Roman Catholic schooling (2nd grade through high school), has taught in a Catholic school, and now works in a Catholic institution, I know none of this is true, at least not according to traditional Roman Catholic beliefs. Yes, the Catholic Church has taught that sexual actions that cannot lead to procreation are wrong (masturbation, contraceptives, oral sex, I think you get the point). However, the Catholic Church also teaches that the use of Natural Family Planning is a sin-free way to have sexual intercourse and avoid procreation. I learned about the rhythm method back in middle school, which was at a Catholic school. I learned about Natural Family Planning at a marriage prep class, which was through the Catholic church.

Everything originally stated in the original article is completely false according to the teachings of the Catholic church.

Marriage has two sides, the religious side and the legal side. The government can only see one side of that, according to the US Constitution (which conservatives claim to protect), and it's not the religious side. The religious definition of marriage may be that of a man and a woman. The legal definition does not specify. Based on the assumption that the founding fathers truly wanted a separation of church and state, the government cannot define marriage as that only of a man and a woman. Therefore, one can only deduct that the government must be allowed to perform marriages for same sex couples.

Somebody needs to remind Crowley that it was Obama voters that were a major factor in passing Prop 8.

White "progressives" often assume "people of color"are on the same page with them at every turn because their interests intersect at some points.The weird thing is that they,who are always screeching about racism are being very racist without knowing it.They just assume that those same "people of color"are waiting with bated breath on their advice for living their lives,their guidance on life's issues.Nothwithstanding that many of these "progressives"are children of privilege who never had a hard day in their lives,while many of the people they patronize have had to make survival decisions from early on.
Ignoring that "certain people" have a mind of their own is the great Achilles Heel of the "progressives".I don't impute bad motives to them,but it's a matter of talking down to those who very well may be their betters.
They have synthetic relationships with the people they purport to understand-relationships chosen because they seem politically correct.These "progressives" live 24/7 with a template of how to interact with specific "types",not with individuals.

If the No on 8 people want to reverse the outcome next time, the smartest thing they can do is get some prominent and vocal African-Americans out in front of the campaign.
A good percentage of black Obama voters probably voted yes because they were pursuaded by either their ministers, athletes (homophobia is pretty common in pro sports) or gangsta rappers. Plenty of misinformation (that it would be taught in schools, that pastors could be arrested for refusing to perform gay marriages, etc.) was put out there, and blacks need to be assured by some of their OWN, not just by us Caucasians, that gay marriage is not a threat to their well-being.

This will be my last response because I prefer to engage in a more collegial discussion than Mike offers.

The only reason I responded in the first place was to make clear what Jim said above:

"I'm not sure how this turned into a discussion of pedophilia, which is 100% unrelated to homosexuality."

Mike, you seem to be consistently linking these things and it does a disservice to you and your argument (as it does when you bring up the AG attended his sister's REAL and LEGAL wedding, not sure why you used the quotes), but that too is unrelated and it's a shame you felt the need to engage in personal and destructive political attacks.

Rhody-why do Black people need one of their OWN and not a White person to make a point?Are Black people inherently different than White people?I don't think any races are inherently different except on the visible surface.
If they were,mixed children would be defective,but instead more often than not,are healthier,stronger,and even smarter in a lot of cases than the products of close marriage.
You make it sound like Black people aren't independent thinkers.I don't think they differ from Whites,Asians,or anyone else in the frequency of independent thinkers in their population.Every racial/ethnic group has lemmings who need someone to think for them.
The whole issue of race has always sickened me.It's a self-invented impediment of mankind.Maybe it's a test from the Creator.If so,the world gets an "F".

Kim-I think Mach and I explained things in pretty clear perspective.Pedophilia came up because the issue of Prop 8 coincided in time frame with this abominable child rape case in Bristol.In this particular instance,the offenders were homosexuals.
I think it's very clear that pedophiles are just a group of subhumans regardless of sexual orientation.
You may disagree,but I believe pedophiles are incurable because they don't think they're committing a crime.