Vatican–Pope promotes prelate who makes stupid claim about abuse

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, 314 645 5915 home,davidgclohessy@gmail.com)

Pope Francis has promoted Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana who, just three years ago, claimed that there were few child molesting clerics in Africa because they didn’t tolerate gay people there.

[Amanpour]

“African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency,” Turkson told CNN 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.”

CNN went on to report that “According to the American Psychological Association, ‘homosexual men are not more likely to sexually abuse children than heterosexual men are.’”

We included Turkson on a list of “dirty dozen” prelates who would be the worst choices to replace Pope Benedict.

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