UNITED STATES
Press TV (Iran)
[with video]
Wed May 7, 2014
Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Dankof, a Lutheran pastor, in San Antonio, about a UN committee saying that systematic sex abuse by the Catholic clergy could amount to torture.
The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: Looking at that UN report we saw a comment being made about the nature of these – what we could say – actions taken by these priests involved in the scandal. He was saying that these go against Christian beliefs – they are anti-Christian actions and by covering up these actions, the Catholic Church is, in his words, promoting them.
And that brings us to the question of what is the root cause of the problem in the first place?
Dankof: Well I think this whole issue of predominantly homosexual pedophilia has been particularly predominant among Roman Catholic clergymen. I think you have a situation here where this UN Committee on Torture should not be involved in this because if the state and local authorities and the Federal authorities in the United States were doing their job according to our own laws here – and I presume that that applies to many other legal jurisdictions in sovereign nation states around the world even as I speak…
These Catholic clergymen who have been accused of these things – and in many cases are guilty – and these arch bishops who’ve covered up for them and have attempted to [reveal] nothing about this egregious breach of Christian morality and indecency ought to be charged with crimes by state attorney generals in the United States and if necessary by the appropriate Federal officials.
This is where this should be stopped along with Catholic people around the world withholding contributions from the Catholic Church until they are satisfied that something substantive is being done.
I’m very concerned as well about this UN Committee on Torture, which is headed up by a Zionist Jew by the name of Claudio Grossman, who clearly has used this Committee on Torture to engage in a carte blanche assault on traditional Christian morality by insisting that the official position of the Roman Catholic Church on abortion, on euthanasia and on contraception is “the psychological torture of women,” when in fact Mr. Grossman needs to find out something about the number of women in the United States and elsewhere who suffer from post-abortion stress syndrome.
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