Pedophiles Quotes
The official position of the church was against the child molestation and rape by pedophile priests as it was against artificial contraception. Harris based his conclusion on the effort the church leaders and priests were making for each of the two issues. While the Pope condemned in no uncertain terms the pedophilia of the priests, the sermons and the literature of the church dealt with contraception much more frequently. At the time, the church was still covering up the sex scandal and some church officials were still in denial as to the extent. When the Pope was a cardinal, he also contributed to the cover-up, claiming to be hamstrung by the limitations of cannon law with regard to defrocking perverted priests.
At the time the some conservatives in America were on witch hunts claiming that all sorts of undesirables were “infiltrating” the Federal Government. As we know, in any large population of people, there will be some tall people, some gays, some leftists, some drug users, some creative people, some ultra patriots, etc. The Federal Government has millions of employees. The deduction that if a sex pervert is one of the millions, he is “infiltrating” the government is silly. 60 years later, a few others claimed that Muslims were having children in America to “infiltrate” the nation with terrorist “sleeper agents.” Politicians are a large group and some of them are bound to be fanciful and somewhat paranoid.
The only reason that this is an important and noteworthy quotation is the irony and hypocrisy illustrated by the fact that the congressman had to resign in disgrace and face criminal charges when he had been sending salacious e-mail to young boys who were pages in the Congress.
The President had instituted a policy whereby convicted pedophiles would be chemically castrated. He Indonesian Medical Society however voted overwhelmingly that such a practice would be unethical and immoral, and it would be improper for any doctor to participate in such a program. Jokowi was asked by a BBC interviewer what he would do about his new policy if the doctors refused to carry it out. This was his response. His program is illustrative of a reaction of many political leaders when faced with a problem that concerned most people but for which there was no known specific solution. They reach out for ideas regardless of how draconian they were or how extensively they violate human rights—even when they themselves know there is no evidence that the new idea will be successful. If there is a problem and a national leader does not appear to try and do something, he/she is often accused of not caring rather than the reality of not taking a chance with “solutions” that will do some harm and may not do any good.
She did not cite any such studies and others could not find them. Regardless of whether homosexuality is regarding as desirable or not history clearly shows major civilizations where homosexuality was openly practiced and the society thrived anyway. Ancient Greece is but one example. Kern has been censured for her discriminatory and insulting statements made in the legislatures. See {623313} & . {623311} This quotation shows that in a democracy, where legislators represent specific geographic areas, people who are uneducated, racist, homophobic, religiously bigoted and/or foolish can elect a representative who has some bizarre and/or hateful views. There have, in America, always been elected representatives whose views are out of the mainstream and embarrassing to most Americans. However in a free democracy freedom of speech and representation cannot be limited to sensible, constructive, logical or scientifically accurate content. Kern and others like her remind us all where education and public information access may be less than ideal.
The problem priests who sexually prey on young boys is not a modern problem only. This quotation demonstrates that the problem has existed for over 1000 years and probably existed in the earliest days of Christianity. This has been a problem of many clergies of different religions. However, the Roman Catholic authorities of the day seemed to be more proactive in dealing with it than in the scandals of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
