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Kiddie-fiddling priests not pedophiles

From the "It-was-so-much-easier-during-the-Inquisition" Department: Bill Donohue (head of the Catholic League) made a gob-smacking statement, on Larry King Live (30 March 2010), while defending the Catholic Church on allegations of sexual abuse by priests and cover-up by the Vatican: "The vast majority of the victims are post-pubescent. That is not pedophilia, buddy. That is homosexuality." According to Donohue, the age at which boys become "post-pubescent" is around 12 or 13. What does this mean? Does the Church want us to believe that a priest raping a 12 year-old boy is not the same as a priest raping a 10 year-old boy? Surely not.

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