UNITED STATES
Gawker
Taylor Berman
In an interview last week with CNN, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, considered by many to be the favorite to succeed Pope Benedict XVI (which would make him the first black Pope), created an uproar with his response to Christiane Amanpour’s question about the possibility of the Catholic Church’s sex scandal spreading to Africa. For Turkson, the issue isn’t Church-wide cover ups of the scandal or any other systematic problem; instead, Turkson thinks the abuse occurred because there were too many gay priests in Europe and North America.
“African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency,” he said. “Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind are not countenanced in our society.”
Right. As CNN dutifully noted in their post about the interview: “According to the American Psychological Association, ‘homosexual men are not more likely to sexually abuse children than heterosexual men are.'”
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