What follows is the Kitsap County Republican Party’s platform, adopted at its convention Saturday. I’ve made a request to Democrats to send me theirs after the meet next month.Kitsap County Republican PartyPLATFORMAs adopted March 27, 2010 OUR PHILOSOPHYWe, the Kitsap County Republican Party, believe that the following principles distinguish us as Republicans and as citizens [...]
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Bill Donohue made the argument during a raucous debate on Larry King Live Tuesday night, during which he repeatedly pointed the finger to homosexuality — rather than pedophilia — as the cause of the church’s sex abuse problems.
“You’ve got to get your facts straight,” Donohue said, addressing sex abuse victim Thomas Roberts. “I’m sorry. If I’m the only one that’s going to deal with facts tonight then that’ll be it. The vast majority of the victims are post-pubescent. That’s not pedophilia, buddy. That’s homosexuality.”
A rather surprised panel of commentators — which included pop icon Sinead O’Connor — then began to debate at what age, exactly, does sexual attraction to children cease to be pedophilia.
Donohue argued the age at which children become “post-pubescent” is around 12 or 13.
“Post-pubescent means beyond puberty,” Donohue said. “In other words you’re an adolescent and that’s what homosexuals do and most of them — the molesters — have been homosexuals in the Catholic Church.”
“Bill Donohue is so desperate to bash gays and defend the Catholic Church that’s he’s willing to pretend that people who are attracted to 13 year old boys aren’t really child predators,” opines
That theme — that the problem is homosexuality, not pedophilia — has become a common talking point for defenders of the Catholic Church in the wake of a series of scandals involving allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests.
As the
The Times continues to editorialize about the ‘pedophilia crisis,’ when all along it’s been a homosexual crisis. Eighty percent of the victims of priestly sexual abuse are male and most of them are post-pubescent. While homosexuality does not cause predatory behavior, and most gay priests are not molesters, most of the molesters have been gay.
The ad, signed by Donohue, then goes on to attack the Times for covering the story as an issue of pedophilia, and alleges that “issues like abortion, gay marriage, and women’s ordination” are behind media coverage of the sex abuse scandals. View the ad
Last week, a victim of Father Lawrence Murphy, who allegedly
Days later, the pope was accused of approving, in 1980 when he was archbishop of Munich in his native Germany, the
And on Tuesday, a lawyer for a man who claims he was molested as a teen by a priest in Miami said the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith under then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger “
The following video was broadcast on CNN’s Larry King Live, Tuesday March 30, 2010, and uploaded to the Web by
— With AFP
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Dayo Olopade explains why Michael Steele won’t lose his job no matter how badly he screws up:
But the most likely reason for Steele’s continued dominion over the GOP remains its hangover about race. Stretching back to the RNC election in 2009–just days after Barack Obama’s inauguration–the Republican Party’s leadership seems to be in constant cringe mode when it comes to its public image on racial issues. Within a political coalition that this week referred to Obama as “that black one,” and astride a grassroots Tea Party movement accused of spitting on black elected officials, it’s understandable. Of the 247 members of the congressional Republican caucus, none are African-American and just five are Hispanic. At the 2008 Republican convention, just 2 percent of the delegates were black.
This is what everyone seems to think, but I don’t totally understand it. I mean, I love accusing conservatives of being motivated by racism, but I wouldn’t even dream of saying that someone who felt Steele was doing a bad job was motivated by racial animosity—he’s a national joke. What’s more, what is it Republicans would be worried about here? Their share of the black vote was already near some theoretical minimum in 2008. And more generally, the party doesn’t appear to be making any kind of effort to court non-white voters. There used to be a large pro-immigrant faction of the party, but it’s vanishing rapidly and been opportunistically abandoned by its erstwhile leader, John McCain. So what kind of minority outreach initiative is it that Steele is so critical to?
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