1. It's exaggerated when compared by the increasing amount of sexual abuse against children and adolescents on television and in the education system. It's also interesting that the news and entertainment media, whose agents are far and away mostly moral relativists, should complain about the Catholic Church's record in this, when their own record is so abysmal.
2. It's not very popular either, despite the climate of moral relativism among political and media figures, to point out that most of the abusers are homosexuals and liberals themselves.
No one seems to complain much about Woody Allen and Roman Polanski has all kinds of defenders who otherwise have at one point or another made disparaging remarks about the Catholic Church.
What we have at play here is a rival magisterium to that of the Catholic Church which while it promotes an atmosphere of moral chaos, can play on the emotional heartstrings of people to arouse hatred for a the easily recognizable bad buy, while it advocates the same sorts of things.
Like Liberals in Germany, the American Democratic Party, here is moving for the legalization of sex with children taking barely perceptible steps. It shouldn't be hard to see that with the prevalence of moral relativism, that the barbarism of the pagan world we'd left behind centuries ago is not far behind.
Here's the citation from Catholic League explaining the story of how the Democrats in 2009 passed hate crimes legislation protecting pederasts, for it bears repeating:
“The House of Representatives will vote this week, possibly tomorrow, on a hate crimes bill championed by gay groups that includes pedophiles under the rubric of sexual orientation. This is the ultimate confession: liberal Democrats think of pedophiles as indistinguishable from homosexuals.
“When this subject came up last week in the House Judiciary Committee, an amendment to the hate crimes bill that would have excluded pedophilia from the definition of sexual orientation was defeated by Democrats along party lines, 13-10. This was considered good news by gay organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, left-wing groups like the ACLU and various Jewish groups like the ADL.
“The debate is over: for liberals, child molesters should be given the same rights as homosexuals. Moreover, they should be given more rights than pregnant women and veterans; the latter two categories were explicitly denied coverage under the hate crimes bill. Even worse, an amendment that would bar prosecution based in whole or in part on religious beliefs quoted from the Bible, the Tanakh (Judaism’s sacred book) or the Koran was defeated by Democrats along party lines, 11-8. In other words, religious speech may be denied First Amendment protection.
“There would be national outrage over this if the media were to report on it and the public were allowed to weigh in on it. But the clock is ticking and freedom and morality are hanging in the balance.”
In any event, it's important to discuss these stories within the context of how the media and its putative allies, the Democrats, have treated the Catholic Church in the past and how they are likely to do so in the future.
By William Wan
After months of church officials questioning, even attacking at times, the media for its coverage of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, a new study delves into exactly how much ink newspapers devoted to the scandals and how it compares to the coverage in 2002.
The report comes at a interesting time when officials have begun backing off their criticisms of media and begun a round of apologies and assurances that they are aggrieved and addressing the situation. Most recent example: Pope Benedict's statements last night. (One fascinating side note to Benedict's comments...as John Allen points out, Benedict for the first time blamed the devil, at least for the timing of the sex abuse scandals amid the Year of the Priests.)
For the most part, the new media study, conducted by Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, just puts into numbers a lot of assumptions people already had about the coverage (i.e. there was a lot of it, rivals 2002 scandal coverage, much of it this time focused on the Pope).
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