"It's a seperate issue"
Not in the terms it has been set out by akenaton. As you rightly say, it has no relevence to this particular topic, yet, despite this, he has used four seperate threads on clerical child abuse to promote his particicular brand of homophobia
He does this in the form of pronouncements - making unqualified statements and then ignoring requests to back them up.
He claims to have no axe to grind with homosexuality, yet has attempted time and again to portray them as disease-carrying perverts with no control over their perversions.
He hasn't the bottle to open a thread devoted to his own particular perversion, but rather, chooses threads on abused children to put his message across.
He has referred to those of us who have expressed our disgust at clerical sex abuse as 'reliphobes', and those of us who have objected to his persistent bigotry have been called 'snide'.
He has claimed to be a non-christian, yet he has sprung to the defence of a heirarchy which hid and facilitated child abuse for decades.
As you say - it's a seperate issue.
Jim Carroll