Well, this is not really a big topic, but I wanted to write about it because it felt so off.
BBC world was just making a report about a woman priest in America who has just been ordained as a priest. Now I don'T know much about religion but apparently it's a sect of Catholicism.
Fine, so far. IT's interesting that a woman is a priest.
THen comes the shocker. The presenter said, " Considering the recent questions that have come alight regarding priests' sexuality, this is going to cause more issues for Catholics"
WTF
Is the presenter seriously putting a lesbian woman in the same bracket at those male priests who have been sexually abusing children? Lots of paedos are heterosexual and married. THe chance of a woman having a sexual threat towards children is much much lower than any man, straight, gay or whatever. I know its the issue of her being a woman here, but I don't see why the reporter had to connect this to the recent cases of paedophilia we've been hearing about in the Catholic church. I just felt the report was trying to say "see, women have dubious sexuality too". What on earth was the point?
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BBC made shocking comment about newly-ordained lesbian priest
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Sakura · 23/05/2010 01:23
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