Parents shocked as priest compares adultery to paedophilia

[trotsky]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/parents-shocked-as-priest-compares-adultery-to-paedophilia-20160414-go6j5a.html

...The statements were printed in the school's March newsletter and delivered at the St Mary's church in East Malvern.

"Maybe to get the real drama and effect of the story we ought to replace the adulterous woman with a paedophile priest," he wrote, after recounting the gospel tale of Jesus showing mercy towards an adulterous woman, telling the baying mob "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

The priest's homily went on to say: "That does not mean there is no condemnation of the sin, no punishment or consequences for the perpetrator or an institution that protected him. But it does mean justice with mercy."

One parent said it was abhorrent to compare a crime like paedophilia with a moral issue like adultery.

Nothing has changed. The RCC is still seeking to minimize and deflect from their child rape scandal. It is still seeking to trivialize the rights of victims and attempting to defend its child-raping priests.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. Does this mean the dioceses will shuffle adulterers around to different parishes...

...and put them in situations where they might commit adultery again?

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Well, that explains much.

When you have people that think you can simply substitute consenting sex with an adult partner in violation of the vows of an existing marriage, with sexually abusing non-consenting children you can be sure the person in question has a non-functioning moral compass.

Also seems like hedging, just a tad. The 'It's between me and my god' defense.

[cleanhippie]

3. Not shocked enough to pull their kids and their money from that scool or their church.

[skepticscott]

4. The rcc and

all of its apologists on DU. Sad and disgusting that so many alleged progressives are still carrying water for such a corrupt and bigoted organization.

[Iggo]

5. Sex between consenting adults is the same as an adult fucking a child?

The Catholic Church, everyone!!!

Let's hear it!

[Igel]

6. Don't confuse morality with legality.

There's a connection between the two, to be sure, but it's on the loose side.

Notice that Jesus didn't say, "Adultery's fine."

He also said nothing whatsoever about rape or pedophilia. Nor that it was okay to put criminals in jail, whether for drunkenness or rape or murder. That's the problem with the whole "my kingdom is not of this world" bit. Having ditched the law-enforcement role for a while, he ditched it.

He did say, "Blessed are the righteous" as well as "Blessed are the merciful."

At the same time, he didn't say that there should be no secular or civil penalty for crimes. There was Roman justice. Just not religious-based justice. (Which is hard when most of the population has a similar sort of moral upbringing in a system that ultimately goes back to a religious foundation, more for some than for others, however much we want to assume that our utilitarian foundations are strictly logic based.)

[Major Nikon]

7. Jesus was reportedly convicted by the Sanhedrin for the crimes in which he was ultimately executed

Which is most decidedly "religious-based justice".

Morality and legality are joined at the hip. Morals are synonymous with ethics. Laws are ethical limits that society places on its residents. Ethics(morality) exceed legal limits and include societal expectations. Religious dogma is prescribed by the Christian church as prohibitions against sin which are allegedly divine commands.

As Ulysses Everett McGill said, "That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed."