Bill Donohue: Sexual abuse in the Catholic church is a homosexual problem, not a pedophile problem

[ck4829]

Last month, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League appeared on The 700 Club to promote his new book, "Secular Sabotage: How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America."

During the interview, the question of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church came up when Robertson asked if "all these scandals in the Catholic Church part of this secular agenda to undermine to undermine the moral fabric of the church." Donohue replied that indeed they were:

"There's no question that within the Catholic Church you have a you a left element ... I regard them as termites sitting within, trying to eat away the fabric of the Catholic Church. So they lie about it in the Catholic Church, they say "oh, we had a pedophilia problem." It's been a homosexual problem all along. It's not my opinion, it's the actual data from the John Jay Criminal Justice System College (sic) here in New York City which looked at the data. I'm not saying homosexuality causes predatory behavior; I'm saying that most of the priests who have been predators have been homosexuals."

What do you supposed Donohue has to say about this?

A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.

The full report by researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice won't be completed until the end of next year. But the authors said their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-say-you-now-bill-donohue

The list of what the right wing defending the indefensible continues to grow...
HPV
KBR gang rapists
The coup in Honduras
And now pedophiles

[marmar]

1. The Catholic Church hierarchy is determined to expedite the demise of their institution.....

..... which is already all but irrelevant now.

[Lex]

35. +1

[Dorian Gray]

45. He's not really a part of the Catholic Church

hierarchy. His organization is separate. But, I agree, he's not helping the matter here. Those who deny the problem in this way are a huge part of the problem.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If that's true, why were little girls molested by priests, not nuns?

[Echo In Light]

11. Good question

[BR_Parkway]

31. Or just getting it on with another horny gay priest - instead of boys?

[FunkyLeprechaun]

32. Because the priests had the "power"

that's why.

That's why it took so long for these abuses to come to light... watch the movie Magdalene Sisters.

[msongs]

3. lol did gays cause the hundreds of millions of murders in the name of the church in 2000yrs? nt

[RKP5637]

5. Good old catholic church, killing for god. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

7. of course

it's always the fault of The Gays. Didn't you know?



:sarcasm:

[Angry Dragon]

25. I believe they did

But they just used to call them christians:evilgrin:

[tularetom]

4. Who gives a shit what kind of problem it is?

If they molest little kids they are pedophiles.

Ergo it is a pedophile problem.

I don't care if the priests that do this are gay straight, or whatever. They are pedophiles.

Donahue should first shut the fuck up, then eat shit and die. And keep his personal prejudices out of this.

I think he doth protest too much. Anybody know anything about his personal life?

[RKP5637]

8. Agree, "he doth protest too much." Usually these types have their own dirt they are trying to hide.

[StarfarerBill]

6. Typical hypocrisy.

The reason that the pedophile priests molested boys primarily is because the priests had the most access to them...

But of course it's much easier to again scapegoat one of their traditional minority targets than to own up to the fact that their policies are antiquated, and have been for centuries.

[JerseygirlCT]

9. He's such a hateful blowhard

Unfortunately, there are too many of his type around...

[RKP5637]

28. Incest! Breeds those of like mind. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. Donohue is one batshit mutherfucker.

He appointed hismelf the head of this co-called Catholic group and spews his shit all over TV like he is the Pope's Man in America. :mad:

I cannot stand that piece of shit.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. I have never heard any RCC figure speak against Donohue

and thus I assume he is the Pope's voice in America. The Pope has not said otherwise. I have not once heard any criticism of him by any of their Bishops or Cardinals. I hate his guts as well. They don't seem to mind him a bit.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. I have no doubt The Ratz LOVES old bigots --

like Donohue - they are made from the same ugly cloth.

[RKP5637]

29. And soiled filthy ugly cloth invested with the diseases of hypocrisy, bigotry and hatred. n/t

[Dorian Gray]

46. He is nowhere

near the Pope's voice in the USA. He's got not direct relationship with Papal authority. His organization acts independently of the Vatican.

[old mark]

14. Well, just to prove him wrong, here are several cases involving Protestant

clergy and children:
http://www.reformation.com/CSA/variousabuse.html

There was just a case last week in Reading, PA of a parish priest involved with a young girl, too, just to be fair about this-don't want to leave the Catholics out.
And this might be of interest, too "Gay priests not the problem...."
http://www.politicsdaily.com/category/disputations




mark

[Enthusiast]

15. Donohue is the

member of a group of dangerous ultra conservative fascistic Catholics. William Bennett is another of this ilk. Donohue is wrong on many issues.

[sakabatou]

16. Fuck you, Bill

[closeupready]

17. So turn over Bernard Law then.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

[moondust]

18. If that's the case the solution is simple.

Don't lock up gay priests in the closet so they have to turn to illegal, immoral, hidden predation on much weaker victims for gratification.

[closeupready]

20. This would be one constructive path to take in the aftermath of

all these scandals; one among many changes that need to happen.

Which is why it will never happen, of course.

[closeupready]

19. And I love how they continue abusing children - because by

suggesting that the children who were preyed upon by those of an age of majority were consenting, they are implying that children who are raped are partially to blame.

Oooo, I am so mad right now. :mad:

[blogslut]

21. Bill Donohue is a sick dude

Have you guys heard some of the imagined scenarios that he attributes to those he calls depraved? That man is messed up.

[bridgit]

22. This sick & twisted old Irish white supremacist is suggesting these so-called...

homosexual "termites" destroying his already oppressive, conservative, dry-humping clergy from within; have been *placed there* by the left, and that has to be the insane proclamation of the new years to come cause it is so clearly the idiot bather of a hate filled bigot - the termites Donohue should be calling Orkin as regards, and in great post haste; are the ones eating into his feeble brain

[Retrograde]

23. So? It's still a problem

and the Church does not appear to have done anything to address it.

[RKP5637]

36. Same old crap... blame it on all of the gays. What a bunch of fucktards is the catholic church. n/t

[KamaAina]

24. Robertson is an anti-Catholic bigot

who once claimed that "we all have the right to worship in this country, Christians, Catholics and Jews."

If he doesn't believe Catholics are Christians, why have Donohue on? Why would Donohue go on?

[EC]

26. If it were homosexuality the priests would be molesting

adult men, not kids...

[Odin2005]

27. BIGOT!

[Initech]

30. Wasn't Donahue the guy who said this:

"Who really cares what Hollywood thinks? All these hacks come out there. Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular. It's not a secret, okay? And I'm not afraid to say it. That's why they hate this movie. It's about Jesus Christ, and it's about truth. It's about the Messiah. Hollywood likes anal sex. They like to see the public square without nativity scenes. I like families. I like children. They like abortions. I believe in traditional values and restraint. They believe in libertarianism. We have nothing in common."

Sick, small minded, deranged man.

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[LeftHandPath]

34. Wow, this makes me REALLY want to become Catholic.

Right after I get done eating this broken glass.

[smoogatz]

37. Pedophilia has been an open secret in the Catholic church

for hundreds of years. And for hundreds of years it's been a relatively safe place for pedophiles to go and do what they do, protected and therefore enabled by other pedophiles within the church hierarchy. The notion that it somehow all started in the 1960s, or whenever, with the rise of secular liberalism, is just about the stupidest fucking thing I've heard all day. Donohue's conflation of homosexuality and pedophilia is flat despicable--what a colossal gaping asshole he is. You have to wonder what dark, ill-suppressed impulses of his own Donohue's projecting on his political enemies. That's usually how it turns out with these guys with the flecks of spit in the corners of their mouths.

[FiveGoodMen]

38. Will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?

[applegrove]

39. That is crap to equate something natural like homosexuality with something sick.

[Hepburn]

40. Oh, bullshit....

....the priests are doing CHILDREN. If they were attracted to those of the same sex, they would be involved with other MEN ... ADULT MEN.

What stupid, bigoted, idiotic, homophobic trash ...sheesh...

[kdpeters]

41. Seems to be a CATHOLIC problem to me, Bill. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

42. I haven't seen any conclusive proof that "The Catholic League" consists of anyone BESIDES that fart.

As near as I can tell, it's just an excuse for him to get his bloated mug on tv and spew garbage.

[optimal-tomato]

43. A valid point.

I think there's only one Catholic in the world that thinks: "The Catholic Church is the divine organization of God on this Earth. It's immensely powerful and wealthy, with a vast public relations mechanism. But I NEED TO DEFEND THEM BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL!"

[Behind the Aegis]

44. He is actually correct. It is a homosexual problem.

Where he is incorrect is it a problem we created or where we are culprits. One of the greatest slurs against gays, besides spreading AIDS/HIV, is we are child molesters (especially true of gay men). Many, probably most, here see what he says for what it really is, bigotry. Unfortunately, it is something still believed by many people, some at an unconscious level: gays are child molesters. In our great envy of being unable to produce children with others of our same sex, we must, therefore, recruit.

What he says is bigoted. It isn't even remotely factual. However, neither of those two previous statements sway some people. I have seen the "homosexual = pedophile" equation applied here; and no, it isn't just trolls. There are multitudes of stereotypes involving gays (most are about men; male homosexuality is, to bigots, a greater threat to society,) and many are employed by people who claim they aren't homophobic. They may not be homophobic, per se, but they sure do have some strong feelings (stereotypical) feelings (comments) when it comes to gays.

So, while most reading this thread will dismiss this as bigotry, it is important to understand that what he says, it is a homosexual problem, is very true. It is why we should never just laugh off, dismiss, or ignore this level of bigotry; when it goes unchallenged, in everyday situations, it will continue to live.