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	<title>Comments on: Banning Gays from Clergy</title>
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		<title>By: Heidi</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2005/09/26/banning-gays-from-clergy/#comment-1676</link>
		<dc:creator>Heidi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pedophiles try to get close to children any way they can. Any group or profession that involves extended unsupervised contact between a single adult and a child should have policies for protecting the child. The Boy Scouts are no exception but they chose to discriminate against homosexuals rather than against sexual predators. The mistake is to equate homosexuality with predatory behavior. 

In fact, sexual predators upon children molest both girls and boys. There is no preferred sexual orientation for criminal molestation or rape that I'm aware of - in fact I would guess that probably girls get molested and attacked a lot more than boys - if only because there are more heterosexual men than homosexual men. There are even some, like the predator who was convicted from my childhood congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, who seem not to have a particular gender preference so long as someone is feeding their feeling of power and domination. He molested his stepdaughter and also her male cousin. As I mentioned, religion sometimes feeds into the problem rather than solving it. 

If you need to think I'm wrong to distinguish between the "sets" of predators and the homosexuals, then I have to ask you first to clarify in what sense you think I'm wrong and why. If you are threatened by someone else's sexual preference, you might ask yourself what you get out of hating someone else for that reason. And aren't you then using this issue, using the children victimized, only for your own psychological need to feel superior as a hetero? Why do some hetero men need a scapegoat? Why would you need to distance this kind of act from people like yourself? </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pedophiles try to get close to children any way they can. Any group or profession that involves extended unsupervised contact between a single adult and a child should have policies for protecting the child. The Boy Scouts are no exception but they chose to discriminate against homosexuals rather than against sexual predators. The mistake is to equate homosexuality with predatory behavior. </p>
<p>In fact, sexual predators upon children molest both girls and boys. There is no preferred sexual orientation for criminal molestation or rape that I&#8217;m aware of - in fact I would guess that probably girls get molested and attacked a lot more than boys - if only because there are more heterosexual men than homosexual men. There are even some, like the predator who was convicted from my childhood congregation of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, who seem not to have a particular gender preference so long as someone is feeding their feeling of power and domination. He molested his stepdaughter and also her male cousin. As I mentioned, religion sometimes feeds into the problem rather than solving it. </p>
<p>If you need to think I&#8217;m wrong to distinguish between the &#8220;sets&#8221; of predators and the homosexuals, then I have to ask you first to clarify in what sense you think I&#8217;m wrong and why. If you are threatened by someone else&#8217;s sexual preference, you might ask yourself what you get out of hating someone else for that reason. And aren&#8217;t you then using this issue, using the children victimized, only for your own psychological need to feel superior as a hetero? Why do some hetero men need a scapegoat? Why would you need to distance this kind of act from people like yourself?</p>
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		<title>By: Francis W. Porretto</title>
		<link>http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2005/09/26/banning-gays-from-clergy/#comment-1674</link>
		<dc:creator>Francis W. Porretto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, at least you're not claiming that Pope Benedict is committing a crime by banning homosexuals from the clergy, but you're still wrong. Or has the Boy Scouts had the same sort of problems the Church has had with pederasty among Scoutmasters?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, at least you&#8217;re not claiming that Pope Benedict is committing a crime by banning homosexuals from the clergy, but you&#8217;re still wrong. Or has the Boy Scouts had the same sort of problems the Church has had with pederasty among Scoutmasters?</p>
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