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William D. Lindsey

At Slate, Amanda Marcotte explains why the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child took a “wide” view of the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic church, one that addresses questions about sexual orientation and gender: it’s because the committee’s charge is to protect rights. Of children. Of all children.

And to address whatever threatens to abrogate the rights of children, in any organization or social group that happens to be under consideration by the committee at the moment. Of any and all children.

Marcotte writes:

While it’s true that the report did take a (welcome) wide view of the sex-abuse scandal, the problem, if you want to call it a “problem,” is not that it’s biased against the church. It’s that it’s biased in favor of human rights and the well-being of adolescents and children. This is a human…