What happens when an all-male organization like the Catholic clergy allows homosexuality to become institutionally entrenched? The answer is organizational and moral chaos. The priests start hitting on the altar boys. So-called "lavender mafias" emerge in certain parishes and dioceses. There are occasional, and outrageous, instances of pedophilia. Young homosexuals find the institution of the clergy a marvelous "cover," not to mention an excellent place to meet other homosexuals. And the higher-ups, at a loss for what to do, act to hush up what the Bible would have called these dens of iniquity.
If you doubt that the Catholic Church has a problem with all this, ask Cardinal Roger Mahony, who just announced that the Los Angeles diocese will pay $660 million to more than 500 victims of sex abuse. In the vast majority of cases we aren't dealing with pedophilia--an extremely rare disorder that is no more prevalent in the Catholic church than it is elsewhere in society--but rather with homosexual priests taking advantage of their authority to seduce teenage parishoners and altar boys.
Now consider what would happen to that other predominantly-male organization, the U.S. military, if it got rid of "don't ask, don't tell" and allowed open homosexual relations between soldiers. We can easily imagine all the problems, but is there an upside? The Spartans are one of the few groups in history to allow homosexuals in the military. They tried to use it to fighting advantage. The idea was that men would be more willing to die for the sake of partners to whom they had become sexually attached. So the Spartans fought as couples, with each young soldier romantically linked to an older veteran. Typically the older veteran played the "male" or dominant role and the youthful recruit the "female" or passive role in the relationship.
Putting on my Clausewitz hat, I've been thinking about how this strategy could be employed by the American military. Should the United States army set up gay platoons, where camaraderie is based not on team loyalty and male friendship but rather on sexual partnering among veteran soldiers and new recruits? I mentioned this to a friend in the armed forces and he could only forsee one benefit. He noted that if the American military gets soundly whipped in a future engagement, we could always laugh off the defeat and say, 'Well, yeah, but you only beat a bunch of gays."
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 6)
1. If same-sex pedophilia reflects on ALL homosexual behavior (including between adults), then mixed-sex pedophilia reflects on ALL heterosexual behavior. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Just follow your reasoning to its logical conclusion. I'd love to see you try it.
Also, repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell doesn't automatically mean man can have sex with men while on military bases. Keep in mind that there never has been a DADT policy directed at heterosexuals, and yet male and female soldiers still cannot have sex together. Let's be clear: DADT does not deal with actual sexual behavior; it simply prohibits soldiers from admitting that they have any type of same-sex attraction (while, to be sure, they can talk all day long about their opposite-sex attractions).
Mike at 10:19PM on Mar 21st 2008
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mcvjdvnnxw at 10:34AM on Jan 24th 2009
4. Sex abuse happened in the Catholic Church because the priests were gay? Wow! You sure about that? Look at the statistics on pedophilia. It isn't an issue of homosexuality. Homosexuality has put the church in chaos? I don't even know how to respond. Your homophobia is really on display here.
Unpleasantly surprised
sheila moriarty at 1:22PM on Jul 16th 2007
5. I cannot believe that you get paid to write stuff like that. Especially here on AOL. This oppinion suggests that homosexual people are less patriotic and weaker than any other individual. How unfortunate that you have a forum to spread your homophobic ridicule so far and wide. I would have thought that you would have grown out of such childeshness in your high school years. Go away with you pettiness and bring on someone who can write about important issues and not have to ridicule anyone in the process.
deejay at 12:49PM on Jul 16th 2007
6. Dinesh, you have got to be kidding. This seriously has to be a joke.
Though I am not a fan of humor that requires multiple logical fallacies and hateful ignorance. Not to mention that I am surprised you would parody your own political ideology.
Have you been hired by the Colbert Report?
Tom at 10:59AM on Jul 16th 2007
7. OH....MY....GAWD.....UH...WHAT?...WHO IS THIS GUY ANYWAY? and how the hell did he get to headline on the internet with such a crock....Priests that molest/rape alterboys ARE NOT pedophiles...but simply closet gays looking for a place to be?.....I am not gay nor lesbian...but it would be like saying that man does not have to be sick to rape a woman...a sane man does not have this behavioral trait nor does a gay man...only a very sick person engages in such behavior....as far as gays in the military...it's like saying you can't be black or short you don't choose to be gay or short or black that's how you are born....it's ignorant MEN like yourself that make things like this nasty ................deep breath ...heavy sigh....
phylmraz at 11:08AM on Jul 16th 2007
8. Give thought to the fact the current leadership of the Catholic church were at one time new priests. Did they in fact engage in the activities that they now profess to rid the church of? I contend they did indeed. Perhaps not all of them of course, but surely a percentage of them. read my fictional novel, Mother Superior's secret; for an insight into what could be truth.
Eric L. at 11:14AM on Jul 16th 2007
9. PUHLEEEEEZE! The priest's that molested chidren are PEDOPHILES. If an altar boy is gay that, doesn't mean he wants to be molested by a man that is a priest, let alone any man.
Pedophilia does not equal Gay! Absolutely nonsensical.
How about we worry about getting our troops out of Iraq, instead of worrying about their sexual preferance! Their deaths do superscede that, HUH?
S-L-O-W-L-y, PEDOPHILIA DOES NOT EQUAL GAY PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!
BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace
rhodalee at 11:19AM on Jul 16th 2007
10. You are a nut. Go back to Guyana and write about thr president, who ???/
sam at 12:05PM on Jul 19th 2007
11. What an idiotic theory. Lifting "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" would not allow open homosexual relations any more than the current policy allows open heterosexual relations. If they happen in either instance, they should be treated with the same degree of severity.
Tom at 11:32AM on Jul 16th 2007
12. DD' mGasps - "What happens when an all-male organization like the Catholic clergy allows homosexuality to become institutionally entrenched? "
Considering that Mark Foley has become the epitome of the conservative movement in this country...
And the vast numbers of "holier than thou" conservaives types caught with their hands in kiddies pants...
I'm not sure you are in position to discuss what problems the Catholic Church has.
Unless it's homophobic conservative experience with a 12 step program for child molesters.
The Mormon Church, in conservative Utah - seems to have the same problem -
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rory_oco_070615_mirror_2c_mirror.htm
Sadly - these creeps (pedophiles) seek cover under the organizational seal of a trusted institutions, like churches...
And of course trumpeting their tawdry conservative warez as homophobic bigots is a sure way to gain trust to be alone with little Johnny or Suzie to not too nimble-minded conserative parents.
Of course every month brings the arrest of seemingly a half dozen or so Rethugly perverts and pedophiles like this one:
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/05/19/news/south_dakota/c28b4fde3796c223862572e00010b1b1.txt
So when are the conservatives going to pay up for their heinous crimes?
BT at 11:34AM on Jul 16th 2007
13. Most pedophiles are straight and pedophilia and gay are not the same thing, idiot. There are already plenty of gay people in the military, always have been and many have served with distinction. The problem seems to be openly admitting that gay people serve in the military. So as with most of America's myths about who it is, we'll just keep denying this truth too because too many crazy people want to pretend it's not so. I wonder though, if there are bombs going off all around you and the person who pulls your behind out of danger is gay...what happens then? Think this has never happened before?
Nikijm at 11:34AM on Jul 16th 2007
14. I do not think DD was saying that HE doesn't think the priests are NOT Pedophiles, but rather Cardinal Roger Mahony's view regarding the distinction between pedophelia and homosexuality.
I am an ex Catholic...or as my mother would say, and Agnostic. I have no love for the RC Church, infact, the recent statements made by the BMOC of the RC Church about the "one true religion" just rattled my cage.
10 min of research on Google on CATHOLIC sites will show you that the rules of the RC Church are man made, and dictated by varous popes through the centuries.
Sorry.. I digress.
12 years of Catholic schooling... I need more therapy. :)
Mary at 11:34AM on Jul 16th 2007
15. Ask Cardinal Mahony who is Jesus. Members of the Catholic church believe Jesus is their high priest. God our Father brought this about as follows:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son (Jesus) whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;”
“Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purges our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;”
“Jesus “Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he (God) at any time,”
“Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he (Jesus) shall be to me a Son?”
Alan Klaus at 11:57AM on Jul 16th 2007