Catholic League: Priests Deserve Credit for the Sex Abuse They DIDN'T Commit

[NeoGreen]

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/29/catholic-league-priests-deserve-credit-for-the-sex-abuse-they-didnt-commit/

Catholic League: Priests Deserve Credit for the Sex Abuse They DIDN’T Commit
The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has been trying ever so hard to discredit the Pennsylvania grand jury’s report documenting hundreds of examples of Catholic Church leaders sexually abusing children. He’s argued a lot of it shouldn’t even count since no one was penetrated and some victims weren’t even pre-pubescent. He’s also said sexual abuse occurs elsewhere, so the Church’s scandals aren’t really that big a deal. And that most of the abuses didn’t occur in the past few years, so everyone needs to lay off.

His latest gambit? Arguing that everyone’s in a “moral panic” over the Church even though there are a bunch of kids who weren’t abused. How come the media’s not reporting on that?!

The Catholic Church has never had a monopoly on the mistreatment of some young people, yet that is what is being promoted today. Why? To feed an anti-Catholic moral panic.
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The media, by focusing exclusively on abuse of minors in Catholic institutions — and stubbornly refusing to credit the Church for reforms that have made Catholic settings today among the safest places for children — perpetuate an irrational fear that the Catholic Church poses a unique threat to the safety of children.

Sure, hundreds of children were sexually abused over the course of decades, leaving them traumatized for life, but who have we molested lately?! Just a couple of kids. CHECKMATE, CRITICS!

Donohue thinks the Church deserves a cookie for treating children appropriately.

[Historic NY]

1. He a bigoted asshole, too bad the Pope doesn't knock morons like him

off his pedestal.

[MineralMan]

5. The Pope loves men like Donohue. They defend the Church,

no matter what it does. Besides, Donohue has a big cache of the really good stuff, you understand...the stuff you can't really get any more.

[3Hotdogs]

2. He needs a prime time slot on Comedy Channel.

[MineralMan]

3. Bill Donohue, I'd like to introduce you to...

"Oh, Father Kennedy. I see that you have not molested any children in your parish. Have a cookie and a cup of cocoa. You'll be staying on as assistant pastor. We're moving Father Johnson from another parish over to yours. He'll be in charge."

"Thank you Your Excellency..."

[Pope George Ringo II]

4. For two thousand years, atheists have been prophesying that the Jesus character wouldn't return

And they never give us credit for having a perfect record. I'm not inclined to give them too much credit if a few of them occasionally behave like actual human beings.

[yellowcanine]

6. Wild Bill has become a caricature of himself. SAD!

[Voltaire2]

7. Do they get tokens?

Congratulations Father Divine on 30 days without molesting any children.

[Major Nikon]

8. Beats a sabbatical to a country with lax child rape enforcement

So there’s that.