http://nbnm.net/threatqualitypress/HarpersMagazine-1970-09-0021110.pdf
https://threatqualitypress.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/today-in-idiots-thom-nickels/
COMMENT for FBing later on:
Of course Thom was basically right, but I doubt there's been much "abuse" of "minors" at any period. They used to weed certain types out of the seminaries, and then, circa 1966, they stopped. So the druggies, drunks, manic-depressives, pederasts and those who really had no vocation—they increased. Because, y'know, gotta be tolerant. "Remember, Jeeziz preached peace and luvv."
COMMENT for FBing later on:
Of course Thom was basically right, but I doubt there's been much "abuse" of "minors" at any period. They used to weed certain types out of the seminaries, and then, circa 1966, they stopped. So the druggies, drunks, manic-depressives, pederasts and those who really had no vocation—they increased. Because, y'know, gotta be tolerant. "Remember, Jeeziz preached peace and luvv."
He DID? Are you sure? Not, "I bring not peace but a sword"? And this is your, uh, *theology*? Sounds to me like some proddy Sunday School Shyte for 6-year olds.
I'd like to see some hard evidence of some of these "abuses," since they all sound like teenyboppers john-ing naive, friendly young prelates who appear to have lots of extra cash and other goodies. That scenario sounds more familiar and plausible to me than the predatory-priest one, as I've observed that young male prostitutes do tend to travel in packs.
And about every other adult gay male I've known has boasted of selling himself, at age 15 or 16, in various swish-swank cruising grounds in Minneapolis and Chicago and even, Lord save me, Philadelphia back when it was still a nice, safe town.
I can well imagine that 35 or 50 years later, when the ex-catamites have lost their looks and a lot of their friends, they decide they can still turn a different sort of trick: the ludicrous accusation. "Father Jim diddled me in 1972! I wanna million billion dollars!" Lots of gullible pigeons in this world, and it certainly seems to work. No 40-year-old Polaroids or tape recordings needed; just go sign up with Moe Shyster!
And to get even more anecdotal: The only priest I ever knew who got put on a watch list, was put there because he joked to a colleague that a third party of the same order was *clearly* light in the loafers. So suggesting someone is queer, however jocosely, is now to be considered ipso facto evidence of sex perversion.
I'd like to see some hard evidence of some of these "abuses," since they all sound like teenyboppers john-ing naive, friendly young prelates who appear to have lots of extra cash and other goodies. That scenario sounds more familiar and plausible to me than the predatory-priest one, as I've observed that young male prostitutes do tend to travel in packs.
And about every other adult gay male I've known has boasted of selling himself, at age 15 or 16, in various swish-swank cruising grounds in Minneapolis and Chicago and even, Lord save me, Philadelphia back when it was still a nice, safe town.
I can well imagine that 35 or 50 years later, when the ex-catamites have lost their looks and a lot of their friends, they decide they can still turn a different sort of trick: the ludicrous accusation. "Father Jim diddled me in 1972! I wanna million billion dollars!" Lots of gullible pigeons in this world, and it certainly seems to work. No 40-year-old Polaroids or tape recordings needed; just go sign up with Moe Shyster!
And to get even more anecdotal: The only priest I ever knew who got put on a watch list, was put there because he joked to a colleague that a third party of the same order was *clearly* light in the loafers. So suggesting someone is queer, however jocosely, is now to be considered ipso facto evidence of sex perversion.
