Is it time Cathoic Priests were allowed to marry?

Hatuey said:

It can sound like whatever you want. The evidence supports exactly that. The pedophile-victim relation is almost exclusively one where one figure has power over the other. Priest/school boy, boy scout leaders/boy scouts, FLDS members/FLDS children, father/daughter, son etc. Do you have evidence to support the opposite?

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The only thing the evidence supports is the fact that those are all jobs that have regular contact with children, not some power fetish as you try to claim it is.

That is hogwash. Nobody decides to study(yes, you do have to go to school to become a priest) expecting to get a job taking care of kids anymore than somebody goes to work for NASCAR expecting to get a job as a race car driver. The list of requirements that one needs to fulfill to become a priest is about the same length as you would any other vocation.

Why would somebody who is simply attracted to children go through the trouble of becoming a priest simply so they may be lucky enough to work with them? We would have been hearing about never ending cases of pedophilia in the education world by now wouldn't we? But that isn't the case. The reality James is that the relationship between pedophile and victim is one of control. One figure has control over the other.

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Again these pedophiles seek these kinds of jobs to be around children.
What is a Pedophile and Related Sex Offender Information | PrivacyMatters.com
They like to work around children. Pedophiles often take jobs where they can be near children — especially positions where they may be directly responsible for children.

Well considering the fact that the Catholic Church actively works to protect its child molesters in the worst of cases and simply turns a blind to others it's not surprising.

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The only reason the Catholic church protected these scum is to protect its own image. And the Catholic church should get all the crap, jokes, satires and other ridicules for trying to protect its own ass instead of reporting these monsters to the authorities. The vast majority of priests are not pedophiles.

However let us look at your bland statistic for a minute and add some more later. 50% of all those arrested for pedophilia are married men. Who are the victims? Let's see:

Pedophile and Child Molester Statistics - Yello Dyno



In 75% of cases they are people who the victims seem to know.



In 33% of cases the victim was their own child.



So what do we have? Well we have that the victims are people they know, just like rape, that the victims are people they have control over, just like rape, that the person keeps victimizing most likely because of how underreported the crime is. The reality is that nothing seems to support your claims that pedophiles are attracted to children simply because they're children. They seem to be attracted to those they can readily victimize, in this case, kids. Place that same person who would have become a pedophile elsewhere and they may just as easily have become a rapist or a serial killer. Talk about bashing as much as you want, the evidence suggests pedophiles are conditioned. Not born.

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The fact they go after the victims they know does not support the notion that it is a power control fetish instead of a sexual attraction to little kids. The fact they go after children they know is so that child is less likely to tell a trust worthy adult or authorities what the pedophile did.

Who cares?

As with all organized religions, it is irrelevant to me. If some want to believe in magic and mystical superbeings with supernatural powers, that is certainly their choice. I stopped being duped by sleight of hand by the time I hit my teens.

jujuman13 said:

That would rather depend on several things, like
1) Have you been subjected to abuse by a Catholic Priest?
2) Are you the parent of a child?
3) If you are a parent would you care if you had a child and that child was abused by a Catholic Priest?

So on balance I have to say yes, my Honest opinion as well as yours and everyone elses opinion does and indeed should count.

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Are all catholic priests child molesters?
Are the vast majority of catholic priests child molesters?
Are a simple majority of catholic priests child molesters?
Are a quarter percent of catholic priests child molesters?
Are even ten percent of the catholic priests child molesters?

Allowing priest to marry is not not going to stop the pedophiles who are priests from molesting children.
Five myths about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal
3. Sexual abuse is more pervasive in the Catholic Church than in other institutions.

Sexual abuse of minors is not the province of the Catholic Church alone. About 4 percent of priests committed an act of sexual abuse on a minor between 1950 and 2002, according to a study being conducted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. That is roughly consistent with data on many similar professions.