The Curious Incident at the American Spectator - Julian Sanchez

[Swede]

If you’ve ever wondered what a lobotomy in print form looks like, search no further than this tedious, rambling piece in The American Spectator by Daniel Oliver. The author strokes his chin, at great length, over the question of why, in all The New York Times‘ recent reporting on sexual abuse by priests, “the word ‘homosexual’ does not appear a single time in all the articles the Times has run since the story first broke.” He likens the omission to Sherlock Holmes’ “curious incident” of the dog which conspicuously failed to bark at night. Oliver notes, by way of possible explanation, Bill Keller’s (correct) 2002 assertion that “there is no known connection between pedophilia and homosexuality,” but then makes painfully clear in the following paragraph that he has utterly missed the point:

The Times may believe that, but other experts –and probably most Americans — would disagree. Besides, that’s not exactly the issue. The issue is whether there’s a connection between the homosexuality of the priests and the molestation of the boys.

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[hedgehog]

1. If homosexual priests are the problem, would someone explain

the many little girls, teenage girls and grown women raped by priests?

[EC]

2. Girls couldn't be "altar boys" back when many of these

cases were happening therefore they were all boys...pediphellia is not homosexuality...I don't know any gays that want to have sex with kids...

[Zoeisright]

3. Oliver is a fucking idiot. Homosexuality is not pedophilia.

Why won't these dumbshits THINK before they open their big yaps and start spewing their stupid lies? Oh yeah, that's right, they're stupid.

[snot]

4. Doesn't he have an editor?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. some people say.....that they'll believe what authority figures tell them,"everybody else" believes.

fucking conservative thinking.

[provis99]

6. well, let me explain to him.

A homosexual wants to have sex with adults. A pedophile wants to have sex with children. These right-wingers are unbelievably dense.

[yurbud]

7. the articles identify the gender of the victim and all Catholic priests are male...

Only a right winger would need those dots connected explicitly.