{"id":10,"date":"2007-12-21T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/marriage-not-a-cure-for-sexual-abuse-10.htm"},"modified":"2007-12-21T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:40:14","slug":"marriage-not-a-cure-for-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/marriage-not-a-cure-for-sexual-abuse-10.htm","title":{"rendered":"Marriage not a Cure for Sexual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Gerald at <a href=\"http:\/\/closedcafeteria.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/sex-abuse.html\">The Cafeteria is Closed<\/a> has made some comments on my book. He thinks that having some married clergy would help remedy the situation.<\/font><o:p><\/o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I am less certain. Certainly celibacy creates a culture in which many or most clerics have sexual secrets: affairs with men or women, abuse of boys or children (rarely teenage girls, for some reason).\u00a0<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">But churches that allow married clergy have similar problems, as I document in the book. Married clergy not only have affairs with laypeople but abuse teenage boys and girls. Male clergy are the usual culprits.<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Men seem to get a greater thrill than women do from sexual transgressions \u2013 almost all perversions in the long lists that psychologists make are done by males, not by females.<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">As a man, I find this troubling. Perhaps it is misdirected aggressiveness, which is definitely more present in men than women.<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">But whatever code a church espouses, a male clergy will get a thrill by violating it. A Catholic priest can transgress by secretly marrying, a minister of the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Metropolitan<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Community<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Church<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, the gay denomination, is still not allowed to touch boys \u2013 but they do.<\/font><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Latin Church may someday follow the example of the Eastern Churches in allowing married clergy \u2013 but preventing sexual abuse should not be the motive.<\/font><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-10\" data-postid=\"10\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-10 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald at The Cafeteria is Closed has made some comments on my book. He thinks that having some married clergy would help remedy the situation.I am less certain. Certainly celibacy creates a culture in which many or most clerics have sexual secrets: affairs with men or women, abuse of boys or children (rarely teenage girls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy-sex-abuse","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}