We moan about racism, sexism and the like but it’s not often we see genuine hatred. It’s what is on offer at the moment, however, as the Pope is libelled, slandered and abused. It doesn’t really matter of course and only proves that bad people detest good people. Much as the homosexual pedophile scandal - the vast majority of the victims are adolescent boys – is grotesque, this Pope has done more as Cardinal and Pontiff to expose and prosecute the guilty. For his work he has been attacked by people who often care not a bit for the poor young men whose lives were smashed but are obsessed with Catholic-bashing.
If anyone takes the time to read what actually happened they will soon realize that Benedict was always on the right side and some of the people who said and did the least were, shall we say, liberal in their theology as well as their sexuality. Speaking of which, it’s extraordinary to see people who have called for the age of consent for buggery to be reduced to 13 pretending to care about boys of 13 being sexually exploited.
Let’s be realistic here. Normal men who are celibate and give in to temptation have affairs with adult women and do not suddenly become attracted to young boys. The catamite fetish is well-documented but, sadly, was not understood by the Church and not dealt with properly.
If anybody would like to read more about this vile perversion they should look at the work of Gerald Hannon, who once wrote that, “I could never understand … how children’s hockey differed from an organized child-sex ring … Both involved children and adults. Both involved strenuous physical activity (adult coaches taking the role of the adult lover). Both involved danger. Both involved pleasure. Yet we approve of children’s hockey and deplore child-sex rings.”
He continued, “Penetration, for example, might be of little interest to most children (though I recall watching some pornography in which two 10-year-old boys f…ed each other, apparently with gusto) and we must find some way to balance a child’s needs, an adult’s needs … It makes good educational sense to push a child’s limits, much as we do in sports or academics, by requiring of them things they might at first feel incapable of doing.”
Gerald Hannon is a former homosexual prostitute who works as a freelance journalist and is on the masthead of Toronto Life magazine. He recently wrote a fawning profile of Toronto Mayoral candidate George Smitherman (the likely winner) for the publication, which is edited by one Sarah Fulford. Who? She is the daughter of columnist Robert Fulford, who has just written an article in the National Post that is intensely critical of Pope Benedict and the Church’s handling of the abuse scandal. Is it, as Thomas Aquinas said, a funny old world.
