Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
The sex problem in the Catholic Church was caused by gay priests preying on altar boys.\u00a0 That\u2019s not pedophilia (dirty old man and young girl), that\u2019s pederasty (gay man and young boy), which is a crime and also a sin.\u00a0 The behavior went on for years while the Church hierarchy actively covered it up, denied it happened, took the predators\u2019 side against the victims.\u00a0 The congregation at large believed the people in authority and dismissed allegations as wicked gossip and ridiculous conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n
There have been rumors floating around for a couple of years that sex with children is rampant in certain corners of politics.\u00a0 Bill Clinton rode the Lolita Express (a charter flight to a private island where underage sex is supposedly available).\u00a0 Anthony Weiner\u2019s texts.\u00a0 A pizza parlor in New York that sold no pizza but sent a lot of children on deliveries.\u00a0 Child porn found on computers that also were used to leak classified data.\u00a0 Celebrity suicides for no apparent reason but who are linked to people accused of promoting child sex.\u00a0 At this point, the politicians deny it happened.\u00a0 The FBI seems to be covering for certain well-connected people.\u00a0 The media dismisses the allegations as wicked gossip and ridiculous conspiracy theory.\u00a0 And ordinary people still believe the people in authority.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m getting a sick feeling in my stomach.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My big worry is that we – all of us – are getting so desensitized that the level of what it takes to shock us is approaching meaninglessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The sex problem in the Catholic Church was caused by gay priests preying on altar boys.\u00a0 That\u2019s not pedophilia (dirty old man and young girl), that\u2019s pederasty (gay man and young boy), which is a crime and also a sin.\u00a0 The behavior went on for years while the Church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67199\/revisions\/67200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}