Why Blaming Gay Priests for Catholic Abuse Situation Will Not Help Anything

LITTLE ROCK (AR)
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December 12, 2018

By William Lindsey

As I posted my posting two days ago with an assortment of reports about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches, I had decided that I’d do a follow-up posting featuring some valuable commentary from Jamie Manson about Pope Francis’ “worries” about gay priests. In my view, the critique/discussion of comments by top Catholic officials like the ones Francis has made to Father Fernando Prado about homosexuality and gay priests needs to go hand in hand with reports about abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches. Where a plethora of reports from various churches, including the Catholic church, demonstrates plainly that the vulnerable people being abused by priests and pastors include females…. Demonstrating that the gays-are-the-problem analysis is a red herring if we really want to get to the root of sexual abuse of vulnerable people in faith communities….

Some very important commentary from Jamie Manson regarding Francis’ muddled, bigoted, scientifically ludicrous comments about homosexuality to Father Prado:

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