{"id":885,"date":"2005-11-23T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/wont-anyone-think-of-children\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:11","slug":"wont-anyone-think-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/wont-anyone-think-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t anyone think of the children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/22\/AR2005112201066.html?nav=rss_print\/asection\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Vatican officials say those rules have been loosely enforced, and some have blamed homosexuality for a worldwide scandal over sexual abuse of minors by priests. Other Catholics say there is no connection between homosexuality and pedophilia.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.  <em>Some<\/em> catholics say there&#8217;s no connection between pedophilia and homosexuality.  As does the DSM and every major professional organization of psychiatrists and psychologists in the united sates.  <em>Some<\/em> shrinks point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucdavis.edu\/rainbow\/html\/facts_molestation.html\">98% of child abusers are not gay or bisexual<\/a>.  <em>Some<\/em> victims rights groups point out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapnetwork.org\/priest_stories\/the_gay_purge.htm\">majority of victims of sexual abuse by the clergy are girls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapnetwork.org\/snap_statements\/2005_statements\/112205_gay_men_priesthood.htm\">oppose this plan<\/a>.  <em>Some<\/em> newspapers occasionally do a bit of research rather than presenting things that are verifiable as a difference of opinion.  Or, you know, maybe they could &#8220;teach the controversy.&#8221;  Oh, no, that&#8217;s another debate over a verifiable phenomenon.<br \/>\nIf American culture is going to be relentlessly dedicated to positivism, could we please actually make an effort at doing even a smidgen of research.  We have google.  We have the internet.  Reporters have Lexis Nexis.  Heck, they could just call up an &#8220;expert&#8221; and ask for some information.  They could open a book.  There are so many ways to get information now.  It boggles the mind to have to think about it.  I remember the old days when libraries had card catalogs.  Now you can find out about almost anything without having to leave your desk.  It&#8217;s so much easier now to do research, yet it seems fewer and fewer news organizations ever bother.<br \/>\n<em>Some<\/em> catholics believe that the world is round.  <em>Some<\/em> people actually earn their paychecks by doing their jobs.<br \/>\nTags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Catholic\" rel=\"tag\">Catholic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Gay\" rel=\"tag\">Gay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: But Vatican officials say those rules have been loosely enforced, and some have blamed homosexuality for a worldwide scandal over sexual abuse of minors by priests. Other Catholics say there is no connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. Indeed. Some catholics say there&#8217;s no connection between pedophilia and homosexuality. As does the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/wont-anyone-think-of-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Won&#8217;t anyone think of the children?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}