Now there’s a mouthful if I ever saw one. But seriously, I find this story so intriguing on several fronts. Just look at the title of this article and it’ll make your head spin.
First, kudos to Foley for being a Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic = Jew Hater.
Next we add a little "gay" into the saucepan. Yikes, that appears to be at odds with the above. Roman Catholic + Gay = Confused
But we’re still good. Next add a pinch of "sexually abused". Ok, now were cooking. We have an excuse for him being gay because everyone knows that being gay is caused from some traumatic experience (sarcasm… maybe) But wait, it appears that’s not your ordinary sexual abuse. Foley claims that it was by a clergyman. BAM! That’s a bonus. So to recap, we have Roman Catholic + Gay + Sexually Abused By Clergyman = Confused Victim.
And now for the piece de resistance… Pedophile! Foley had some disturbing chats with a teenage boy. I won’t go into details but feel free to read it for yourself here. So our final dish is Roman Catholic + Gay + Sexually Abused By Clergyman + Pedophile = Republican.
Am I being a little hard on Republicans, maybe. But he’s not the only one and surely not the last. Take a gander at what the religious right has to offer. And you lefties out there, I bet you’re not far behind. Extremism on either side is a bad thing.
Once again I am proud to be an American.
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Once again I’m proud to be a Catholic that made it through being an alter boy with my virginity intact.
Editorial: a former Catholic… darn sleep deprivation
Haha Jones…
Hmm I feel sorry for the guy, obviously very confused. Very… Very… confused. He needs to retire out of the limelight and get himself a partner who’ll take care of him.
I almos became an alter boy, i got lazy, yay for being lazy!
actually my church has no history of such activities, amazing as that may sound. They were upset at my long hair though, man if they’d confront me about it i’d give em a mouthful. sigh, how we long for simpler times.
Man, that sucks. I was never molested as a child :( What was wrong with me?
In all seriousness though, I don’t know what was more disturbing in that transcript, the content or the writing style of a congressman. Granted, it was informal, and he may have just been trying to “fish” the kid in by being like him, but I doubt it.
How does even a semi-intelligent man in his position get stupid enough to do something like that? I just can not get my mind around it. I know he blamed it on alchohol, but there is no way he completely forgot doing it. I can guarantee you I would have never drank again.
This man is a liar. He got busted preparing to rape a child and suddenly he reveals that he’d an alcoholic, gay, clergy-molested ‘survivor’. What is that? The republican I’m not responsible trifecta? The worst thing is this son-of-bitch will never see the inside of a prison. Neither will his co-conspirators. I’ll never believe he hasn’t done this before. Makes me want to puke.
I read up until “cute butt bouncing in the air.”
Just couldn’t go on.
According to the DSM IV the “Diagnostic criteria for 302.2 Pedophilia” is:
* Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger).
* The person has acted on these urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.
* The person is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children in Criterion A.
The correct term for what the Congressman has is “ephebophilia”, a sexual preference for adolescents. If it is found he committed a crime it would probably be “corruption of a minor” or if he has had consentual sexual conduct, “statutory rape.”
I just read the transcript. Disturbing. Speaking of using scandals for politics…
Every time an excuse is used and accepted by the public (or worse a jury), it reinforces that truth. By blaming abuse and homosexuality, he is stregthing the conservative Christian stance that homosexuality leads to “pedophilia.” (The misuse of the term is also a political gambit that put a 22 year old with a 17 year old girlfriend in the same boat as a 40 year old molesting 5 year olds.)
Even when these people screw up, they can spin it to thier party’s agenda. Damned.
To be fair, he is also stregthing the leftist stance that abuse is an excuse for all manner of crime.
correction:
it reinforces that AS truth.
Andrew’s post touches on a legal/philosophical topic that I’ve been thinking about recently. The basic premise of an affirmative defense is that the defendant admits they did do the actions they are accused of but claims other factors reduces or eliminates culpability. The type of affirmative defense that I am thinking of in particular are those that fall into a category that I call “free will reducing” factors. These would include defenses like the insanity plea, duress, and the “I was abused as a child” defense.
I have the opinion that such defenses should never eliminate culpability but replace a certain amount of the penalty with rehabilitation instead. Clearly if their free will is impaired there is something in their mechanical mind that caused them to commit a crime and that part is in need of repair. Since they are a danger to others due to their flaw, they should be separated from society for at least for as long as it take to fix that part.
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing that is ‘broken’ about Mr. Foley is that he acts on his sexual attraction to an inappropriate age group. His unfortunate experience as a child and his addiction to alcohol do not absolve him of guilt, but I would be ok with forced hospitalization until he’s cured.
I’m curious as to the community’s opinions on this topic.
Actually two parts of the headline work well together: Almost all child sexual abusers were abused themselves as children. (It’s a learned misbehaviour.)
I don’t understand why this blog entry has “Roman Catholic = Jew Hater” in it. Nothing in the referenced article says *anything* about Jews.
Is gasmonso just trying to be an inflammatory as possible?
Actually Reader, that was directed at Mel Gibson.
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Thanks for the explanation.
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Simple solution to the “child abuse” is to legalize and have it become socially acceptable. Understand that it is not necessarily the act that causes such damage to the child but it is the child’s reaction to the act. If the child believe that what happened was wrong it become an albatross. That leads into self-blame and guilt which is very damaging to the psyche, more so that the original act. You see, the conservative christian society is actually the root of the problem behind the trauma experienced by victims of sexual assault. There have been many cultures where pedophilia was openly practiced and accepted and the children of those societies grew up to become productive and contributing members of that society. The only difference between that society and ours is that we attach a stigma to children and sexuality. In fact, society tends to attach a stigma to all sexuality, but especially children.
Dude, thats a waaaay NAMBLA way to view the situation.
Find an abused kid who was supported by his family, didnt come from a christian background etc and no bets that they still hated it and were scarred by it all. Also does it not occur to you that its not an equal power situation or that children arent generally drawn to have sex naturally? Its an abuse of power, nothing less.
Then how do you explain the cultures who openly practiced it not having these same problems? It’s not a NAMBLA view point, it’s an unbiased, unemotional, and scientific look at the facts surrounding the events. Let me show you one example: Why do you think the traditional term is called a bouncing baby boy?” It’s scientific fact that humans of all ages experience orgasm. The “bouncing baby boy” is actually getting his rocks off. If you search through old patents you find numerous devices that were in use in the late 19th century and early 20th century that were designed to prevent children from masturbating. Now, if children supposedly aren’t drawn toward own sexuality how can you explain so many devices to stop it?