Perpetual Adolescents in Need of Discipline
Please excuse me while I extract a weeks worth of sarcasm, it may not be pretty and you may want to turn away, but here goes:
While reading articles of this type, I usually start with a mild twitching disorder and end with violent convulsions accompanied with a snorting verbal tic. So, bear with me while I work through this article by Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., who is a feminist theologian, a co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER).
Rome has been floating trial balloons for some time about this document to see what level of anti-gay rhetoric it can get away with. That crazy Pope is up to his old tricks again, and darn almost got away with it. It’s almost like that time he short sheeted that Bishop from Omaha.
This is an absurd gambit on the part of the Vatican; homosexuality has no relationship to child sex abuse. By the process of elimination, I guess that only leaves us heterosexuals in the mix. I guess we can all learn a lesson in purity from them and just leave those kids alone.
Another poll, conducted by the Boston Globe in the Boston archdiocese—where the incidences of sexual abuse by priests were among the highest‑—‑finds that nearly 60 percent of Catholics oppose a ban on gay priests. Well if it’s Boston, there you have it! I mean, if you have BOSTON on one side and you have the Church on the other…….. well, there’s always those guys with comb overs…
“…if Catholics here really stood up to their bishops, loudly and in numbers, the Vatican would have little choice but to listen.” They better darn well listen if they want my vote next time around! I bet Bush had something to do with this, leave it to those Vatican guys to hack into those Conclave machines and fix the election.
“Catholic†means all-encompassing, universal, comprehensive. “Catholic†does not mean exclusion on the basis of misinformed or capricious reasoning. I prefer to use deceptive and whimsical reasoning, but that’s just 7+ years at Oshkosh Polytech talking.
I’m better now.
Seriously, I don’t think this battle is going away anytime soon. It probably drives those with sexually based agendas crazy that the last frontier, the Catholic Church, has yet to submit to the norm of western culture. Despite the results of all the opinion polls, (but you’ve gotta admit, those numbers out of Boston looked pretty daunting), political pressure, slander, and I can’t think of many more words, but you get my drift; our Shepard continues to couragously lead the Church with strength and compassion. The one word our progressive friends cannot tolerate, like salt to a slug, is AUTHORITY.
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The spring of 1992 “Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 18, The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children”, done by Freund and Watson, who claim that about 1 out of 36 men who are homosexual males, are more likely to engage in sex with minors. They conclude that homosexuals are 3 times more likely to commit the offense, than straight men. The main point, the media refuses to claim that these priests are openly homosexual.
In a article by Toby Westerman in 2002, he reported on the problem, with eyewitness accounts by Fr. Charles Fiore, who received his clinical training in Topeka Kansas. Fiore stated, “pedophilia is the sexual molestation of a pre-pubescent child of either sex, but the overriding problem is the abuse of children from 12 to 18.†According to Westerman, 90 percent of the cases done by Fiore involve teenage young men.
When you look at the problem that the Archdiocese of Boston faced, many claims were supposed pedophilia. But what the media didn’t tell you was that some of these men, like Fr. Paul Shanley of Boston, who was incarcerated, were members of the NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association). Notice it says man and boy, nowhere is “girl†mentioned. They mention women, as in lesbian women, but not women/girl love
This lady is stupid, I know alot of women with Theology, I mean liberation theology degree’s. I heard one women with a liberation theology degree in my parish tell students in her class that she would make a good priest. I also liked the fact that my father gave a good talk on the Eucharist and after the talk she got up and blurted out, “Were all Eucharist.” Not sure what that was supposed to mean, but this lady on your blog here is one of those types, so don’t let her get ya down. People belive what they want and she is a typical example!
Comment by Sean Hurly — December 17, 2005 @ 12:31 AM
Sean,
One of the common threads of ignorance among those who may write columns like this, is that truth is irrelevant. Disordered emotions dictate their intellect, intolerance, and their means to force their agenda down the throats of anyone who stands in their way. Justification of actions through self victimization is common with those who feel oppressed, which in turn drives the anger into a vicious cycle. I actually have no idea if this is a fact, it’s just a humble opinion, but when someone makes bold, slanderous, unfounded statements, there is a concern over their capability to be rational.
Comment by shelray — December 17, 2005 @ 7:31 PM
I agree. People like this don’t deserve any part in public columns because it is their own opinion and this particular individual only got on because of her so-called theology degree, yet she sites no sources for any of her arguments.
Comment by Sean Hurly — December 17, 2005 @ 8:46 PM
[...] Shelray’s apoplexy from a recent article he read got me ta think’n again. The recent spate of “gay†related issues in the news, with the USCCB’s run amok movie review committee’s all but endorsement of the “gay†cowboy movie, the press’s negative reaction to the apostolic visitation as a witch hunt, the two priests resigning and a number of others sending a letter of complaint to an Italian newspaper over the Church’s reasserting her policy over not ordaining those suffering from same sex attraction, Shelray’s dissenting author’s (who by the way, established a group [WATER] that wants to redefine the Church and her Sacraments into something a little more pagan) comic attack on the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, and even Douglas Arone whose new book appears to reflect a new age/pagan world view, all share central theme which stands in stark contrast with today’s liturgical celebration. What I see as common among these various stories is that they all reflect a need to control and a demand that even reality itself change to fit the different subjects’ wants and desires. I don’t believe that any of these folks are very happy. But their unhappiness does not arise because the Church refuses to agree that buggery is a great thing to do, or that she will not ordain women and replace Trinitarian doctrine with the goddess Sophia, or any of the other gripes they have. The real source of unhappiness comes because of their demand for self-assertion and selfish satisfactions, their distortions of reality and their taking from others put them 180 degrees out from path toward happiness and fulfillment. [...]
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