"There you go again!"
And here we go again. I liked Reaganite in NYC's comment:
Rod, it is impressive―in an odd sort of way―to see how you took a story about a middle-aged homosexual politician having a sexual relationship with an underage intern and pivoted it towards one of your favorite topics of late: the pederasty scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.
Of course, Dreher gets this part right―most of the offending priests involved in "The Scandal" are homosexuals and not true pedophiles.
Rather than beat this to death or offer more of my own tired and snarky commentary, I will post part of this insightful and sincere apology which David Benkof, a gay male, offered to non-gays; it seems to be pertinent here:
Whenever a Boy Scout leader is caught diddling young teen Scouts, or a priest is sued for fellating choir boys, the professional homosexuals trot out and declare that most child molesters, including the accused in that particular case, are “not gay.” Oh, please. Most such cases are not pedophiles who equally victimize little boys and little girls. These dreadful predators tend to be ephebophiles - men who are attracted to adolescent boys, and who coerce them into sexual activities that are precisely the same as the ones gay and bisexual men do in bedrooms, bathhouses, parks, and piers with each other. When two penguins or monkeys are found to be engaging in those same activities, the professional homosexuals rush to the microphones and announce the animals are “gay.” If a lizard who can’t speak or count to ten is “gay” when it sodomizes another same-sex lizard, what exactly is “not gay” about a Scoutmaster who does the same thing to a 12-year-old? The fact is, the gay community should apologize for and take steps toward preventing future cases of same-sex molestation. I’m really, really sorry people who enjoy the same sexual activities I am inclined toward have been hurting so many young men and boys.
The fundamental problem here is that a great deal of homosexuality is a developmental disorder which manifests in many related behaviors that demonstrate a lack of maturity (such as narcissism). Consequently, you cannot seperate this type of activity from homosexuality in general. That's why they have to defend the perpetrators.
ReplyDeleteI used to live just outside the Castro district in San Francisco and was accepted as a member of the community such that I got the real inside-talk. The chicken-hawk factor is not seen in the same light within that community as it is outside. It's winked at as "naughty" with a mixture is tsk, tsk and admiration.
It's winked at as "naughty" with a mixture is tsk, tsk and admiration.
ReplyDeleteSteve, I've always intuited this to be true. That's because to me individual homosexuals generally seem to start out innocent enough, but then descend into an abyss of increasing decadence and decreasing normalcy. They accept a code that sees people completely materialistically. This code cannot really respect children let alone protect them except as kind of a concession to sane societal norms.
I think you are both absolutely spot-on.
ReplyDeleteI have a gay male boss, and boy oh boy, can I ever vouch for the "narcissism" part. (I also have two gay male colleagues -- hey, this is the apparel industry, what can I tell ya? -- and, while one of them does the narcissism thing to a T, the other one's one of the sweetest, nicest people you'd ever want to meet. Go figure!
BTW, I'd rather not go near the Dreherrhea Blog (it just oozes evil, IMHO). But can someone tell me -- besides NYC Reaganite, has anyone else there taken Dreher to task for his sick sick sick fixation on the Catholic Scandal and his obsessive tendency to relate everything back to The Scadndal and his utter sick-making hypocrisy in refusing to discuss his own communion's scandals whilst obsessively fixating on ours? Or does he not have enough readers left who'd even make such arguments? Or does no one give a you-know-what anymore, because they've made the point a bajillion times to no avail?
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