Vatican Again Tries to Blame Gays for Sex Abuse Scandal

The Vatican and members of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy are increasingly adopting the homo-hating practices of the extreme Christian Right and as a result it is more and more likely that if the lips of a member of the Church hierarchy is addressing the issue of the Church's worldwide sexual abuse tsunami, that the speaker will be lying. The Church leadership will shamelessly say and do anything to shift blame from the Church's systemic causes of the abuse problem - the celibacy requirement for priests and the Church's sick and bizarre view of all things sexual. The fact that mental health experts disagree and that normal "out" gays do not engage in the sick abuse and rape of children means nothing. Lie and obfuscate at all costs. The Advocate and the Washington Post both have columns on the Church's latest effort through Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, to blame it all on TEH gays. It is a travesty but not to be unexpected from an institution that covered up the rape and molestation of literally tens of thousands of children and youth. One almost has to wonder when accusations will surface that both Benedict XVI and Bertone abused children along with countless other members of the Catholic clergy. Here are highlights from the Washington Post:
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The Vatican's second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, made the comments during a news conference Monday in Chile, where one of the church's highest-profile pedophile cases involves a priest having sex with young girls.
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His comments drew angry reactions from Chile's gay rights advocates. Neither Bertone nor the Vatican has the moral authority to give lessons on sexuality," said Rolando Jimenez, president of the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation in Chile. Jimenez also said no reputable study exists to support the cardinal's claims. This is a perverse strategy by the Vatican to shirk its own ethical and legal responsibility by making a spurious and disgusting connection," he said.
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At least one of the highest-profile pedophiles in the Chilean church victimized young girls, including a teenager who became pregnant. . . . the archbishop of the capital, Santiago, received multiple complaints about Father Jose Andres Aguirre from families concerned for their daughters. But the priest - known to his parishioners as Father Tato - continued serving at a number of Catholic girls schools in the city. Later the church sent Aguirre out of Chile twice amid abuse allegations. He was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison for abusing 10 teenage girls.
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She said one of the priests she confessed to about her sex with Aguirre was Bishop Francisco Jose Cox, who himself was facing allegations of pedophilia. Cox had been bishop in La Serena, in northern Chile, for seven years when he was removed in 1997 amid rumors that he was a pedophile.
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Honestly, if there is indeed a God, I cannot help but believe that Benedict XVI, Cardinal Bertone and others like them are destined to burn in Hell where they will spend time with the far less than saintly John Paul II who is already there. The amorality of these men is nothing short of shocking - particularly when acknowledges the guilt and self-loathing they willingly inflict on others who are far less morally bankrupt.