Bonnie....."Sexually assaulting someone weaker - whether children, women, or the feeble-minded - is the real evil, whatever the combination of genders. Lying and seeking to cover it up compound the iniquity. These are the real matters which need to be addressed"

I agree fully with what you say, but if we are properly to address this problem it is important to understand exactly who is committing these crimes and why they are committing them.

It is also important to discover why this behaviour (the sexual abuse of boys and youths by men), is largely confined to the priesthood of the Catholic Church.

By turning a blind eye to the reasons behind the abuse, we do not serve our young people, in the same way as in ignoring homosexual hiv and life expectancy figures we do not serve homosexuals.

Roman Catholic priests have the highest rate of hiv infection of any occupation......ARTICLE HERE