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Catholic Church Defends Roman Polanski

The Catholic Church wants us to move past its child molestation scandal, because, quite frankly, priests were not molesting children.  Instead, ala Roman Polanski, they were simply having relations with adolescents (via):  The statement said that rather than paedophilia, it would "be more correct" to speak of ephebophilia, a homosexual attraction to adolescent males. "Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17." It's time to indict the Catholic Church under RICO.  Seriously.  For decades, they obstructed official investigations, and committed mail and wire fraud.  Perhaps there once was good reason to forgive the Church...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).