Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

What if I say the words…… “sex abuse scandal”, don’t stop to think, ….quickly, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?…Catholic Church, right? (not valid if you’re in the habit of reading the titles of articles first) Not that there is any excuse for the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church, but if the “media’s” agenda is pure (i.e. justice and the protection of children), why is there such an imbalanced focus on Catholic priests and The Church? What about the sex abuse being done by others, are non-catholic kids just along for the ride, being molested by pedophile teachers? The facts speak so loudly, they (agenda driven media) need not take their sanctimoniousness feet out of their mouths to explain it. Here are some highpoints of the CBS article:

In the face of the evidence of a widespread epidemic of abuse fed by a new morality that winks at child molestation, why is the Church the only institution under the microscope?

If the suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey were a priest, there would be a fresh outcry about a decades-long cover-up in the Catholic Church.

Any institution that has allowed children to be harmed by predators deserves to be taken to task for it. No institution should get a pass. And no profession should get a pass. Not preachers, not priests — not even teachers.

“[T]hink the Catholic Church has a problem?” she said. “The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.”

So, in order to better protect children, did media outlets start hounding the worse menace of the school systems, with headlines about a “Nationwide Teacher Molestation Cover-up” and by asking “Are Ed Schools Producing Pedophiles?” No, they didn’t. That treatment was reserved for the Catholic Church, while the greater problem in the schools was ignored altogether.

The federal report said 422,000 California public-school students would be victims before graduation — a number that dwarfs the state’s entire Catholic-school enrollment of 143,000.

During the first half of 2002, the 61 largest newspapers in California ran nearly 2,000 stories about sexual abuse in Catholic institutions, mostly concerning PAST ALLEGATIONS (of which many are made against innocent priests) . During the same period, those newspapers ran four stories about the federal government’s discovery of the much larger — and ongoing — abuse scandal in public schools.

The 2002 Department of Education report estimated that from 6 percent to 10 percent of all students in public schools would be victims of abuse before graduation — a staggering statistic. Yet, outside the Catholic Church, the reaction is increasingly accommodation instead of outrage.

This story, borrowed from the article in the National Review, written by Tom Hoopes, the editor of the National Catholic Register. I am just shocked that CBS picked it up on their website. Not that I enjoy pointing this out, BUT if the hypocritical media cared in the least for the welfare of children, we wouldn’t have a 500:1 ratio of stories on the Catholic sex scandal, when kids in public schools have a 100 times more chance of being molested by a pedo-teacher. If the public school system would spend less time handing out condoms and instructing kids on how to have sex, and spend more time cleaning up their teacher pedophile scandal problem, the children would be better served. Amen.