Bill Donohue’s Defense of Abusive Priests Travels to Chile
—Bill Donohue, the Catholic League’s hate leader, in a release titled, “Not All Gay Sex is Abusive.” Look at Bill, taking back the “gay sex can be positive” meme!
The New York Times is right, of course: it is “sexual abuse” legally because the age of consent in Chile is 18. Aside from the legal definition, it seems that (if their accounts are true) some of the victims would not tell the priest to get lost because of the priest’s position in the church, so the sex charges qualify as abuse in the same way that a manager soliciting sex from an employee might qualify.
Bill Donahue’s statement as quoted above about the New York Times simply confirm that Donahue is a liar – the article was hardly biased. It reported the charges that were made publicly (by several separate individuals) and also that those charges are being questioned by some other people. It will take time before it is sorted out.
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The words almost refuse to come out of mouth, but he’s actually right. “pedophile” has one of those hysterical buzz words, like “terrorist,” that has lost all meaning through overuse. So much so that a person can barely be in the same room with a child without feeling reflexively guilty.