Vatican Says Homosexuality Causes Catholic Child Rape

The Vatican is desperate to blame others for the Catholic Church’s systematic abuse of young children. Gay people are the main target, but as I reported yesterday, Jews are also blamed. And the blame game continues.

During a visit to Chile yesterday, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s second-highest authority, said the sex scandals are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests. “Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and paedophilia,” the cardinal said. “But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and paedophilia.”

So, were are back to gay people being the true criminals.

But wait a minute! What does every Catholic priest have in common? Is it homosexuality, celibacy, or Christianity? Perhaps it is the Christian faith that makes these men rape children? In a wicked mind, even the most harmless Bible verse can be perverted.

Niclas Berggren blogs about this and quotes Psychology Professor Gregory Herek:

The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be characterised as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are fixated on children.

And many of them have a very special taste for altar boys after Mass duty.