grude
August 30, 2012, 11:03am
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Some choice quotes:
“People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to — a psychopath,” Groeschel said. “But that’s not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 — is the seducer.”
Pressed for clarification, the New York State-based religious leader explained that kids looking for father figures might be drawn to priests to fill a hole.
Furthermore, Groeschel expressed a belief that most of these “relationships” are heterosexual in nature, and that historically sexual relationships between men and boys have not been thought of as crimes.
“If you go back 10 or 15 years ago with different sexual difficulties — except for rape or violence — it was very rarely brought as a civil crime. Nobody thought of it that way… And I’m inclined to think, on [a priest’s] first offense, they should not go to jail because their intention was not committing a crime.”
Fill a hole?! This must be an Onion article I am thinking.
OK, I updated his Wiki page.
Actually, here’s the remarkably similar Onion article from a decade ago.
Defenders are now saying the 71-year-old is senile and suffering from a brain injury. Makes you wonder if sometimes these conditions lead to people telling the truth.