Forty to fifty years ago our attitudes were so different in this area...
Now anyone who knows me will attest to how much importance I place on being fair, balanced and honest in any given situation. Let's reflect on the attitude society had to the subject of peadophilia say forty to fifty years ago. It was in general viewed so differently then.
Okay, dreadful crimes of paedophilia and its cover up took place everywhere. In all the faiths - Christian, Muslim and Jewish. Also in so many secular institutions. And don't get me started on the BBC!
All the Christian denominations share in this shame: The Catholic Church, the worldwide Anglicans, the Methodists, the Baptists, all the Lutheran denominations, the Jehovah Witnesses, the Mormons et al. And don't get me started on the Church of England!
But let us try and see this in context. Society did not view paedophilia with the abhorrence which we have today. Oh! no.
Now let me bring to light this example which will shock younger readers to the core. Back in the 1970s we had here in the UK an organisation called The Paedophile Information Exchange exist. This nefarious outfit held public meetings - several in Conway Hall in London. These degenerates were supported by many amongst the pinko/liberal left including politicians. And indeed there were smatterings of support within the Labour Party. Damian Thompson had a good article about this in The Spectator some years back.
Doesn't excuse any of the horror of what happened of course, but it does provide some background about how such dreadful crimes came to take place,
GENE
"Now anyone who knows me will attest to how much importance I place on being fair, balanced and honest in any given situation."
ReplyDeleteNo Gene, you are malicious, cruel, two-faced, hypocritical, bigoted and as genuine as a seven pound note.
And as for paedophilia, how about the man whose arse you creep round day and night? Lest we forget...
Had Ratzinger unfrocked Kiesle in 1985, the abuse of children at St Joseph's would not have continued for a further three years. That is a FACT, no matter how often you try to deny it.
Ratzinger's apology in full reads as follows [my footnotes}:
“I can only express to all the victims [1] of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness. I have had great responsibilities [2] in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses [3] and the errors [4] hat occurred in those different places [5] during the time of my mandate."[6]
1 ALL THE VICTIMS, Gene: victimS, plural: you can tell this by the S on the end of the word. All the victims of sexual abuse that occurred during Ratzingers time as Archbishop of Munich [1977- 1982] and later head of the Congregation of the Faith and Pope - that is, 1985 - 2013. The phrase "ALL THE VICTIMS therefore must include the victims of Stephen Kiesle between the years 1985-1988, when Ratzinger failed to unfrock Kiesle. [2] I HAVE HAD GREAT RESPONSIBILITES [see 1 above]: and one of those was to detect, root out and expel priests and others in the Catholic Church whose favourite hobby was buggering small boys and raping little girls. These GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES obviously include those children abused by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him in 1985. [3] THE ABUSES - these must include the abuses committed by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him [unless you can prove differently, Gene?].
[4] THE ERRORS - these must include Ratzinger's failure to unfrock Kiesle in 1985 and probably his failure to alert Fr Thomas Ryan that he was allowing a convicted paedophile rapist to minister to the young people in his church.
[5] THOSE DIFFERENT PLACES - except, of course at St Joseph's Church, Penole, CA, where Stephen Kiesle, still a priest, continued to abuse children during the years 1985-1988 - Ratzinger made it clear that his apology did not include this, didn't he, Gene, and you can prove that, can't you? What's that? oh, you can't? Dear me, and YOU call ME a lying tosser... [5] DURING MY MANDATE: that is, during the years 1985 - 2013.
It is clear to anyone whose mind has a greater ratiocinatory capacity than a pair of skid-marked underpants that Ratzinger was apologising for all the sexual abuse committed on his watch 1985-2013 by priests whom he failed either properly to oversee, accurately to diagnose and condignly to punish, as well as arranging for their being unable to access children and young people ever again.
"I can only express to ALL the victims of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness." It's that word ALL that gives it away, Gene: I'm sorry if it's confusing. Stuff your pissy little opinions up your arse. I will not apologise for telling the truth, and I will go on telling it until you acknowledge that it is the truth. In the meantime, I continue to wait for your answer to this:
"Detters can we leave A.N. WILSON and ARIANNA HUFFINGTON behind?"
Not until you have dealt honestly with this example of your lying bastardy:
'Gene writes beautifully - something not always the case with authors of trail-blazing literary works.' [A.N. WILSON]
"The genius of James Joyce is alive and well and living amongst us. His name is Gene Vincent." [A.N. WILSON]
'I was enthralled. A new star has shot into the literary firmament. [ARIANNA HUFFINGTON]
When you are going to admit that you have made these reviews and their authors up? Make no mistake: I am going to keep on asking until you tell the truth, or I lose patience, inform Mr Wilson and Ms Huffington and let nature take its course.
"And as for paedophilia, how about the man whose arse you creep round day and night?"
ReplyDelete??????????????
And how about the pinko/liberals who supported the Paedophile Information Exchange?
GENE
Are you saying
Delete[a] that I am or was one of them?
[b] or that I supported the Paedophile Information Exchange in any way, shape or form?
It would be better for you if you made it abundantly clear that you are not, Gene.