Brody's Notes... Swift angry responses in growing debate over Vatican diplomat's remarks

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Sept 30 | LGBT bloggers world-wide are outraged and disgusted over the statement issued by the Vatican on Monday, Sept 28th, at a conference of the United Nations Council on Human Rights held in Geneva, Switzerland:

The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that,
"available research showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse." He continued by stating that,

"the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males."

One blogger commented that:

The group SNAP (which stands for something like Survivor's Network of people Abused by Priests) estimates that the majority of those abused were girls, which is the case with most sexual abuse of minors.
I can only imagine that the media and the church are so hung up on abusing boys because that's the REAL tragedy. Females are supposed to be used for sex, so the only problem with abusing girls is that they're too young. But touching boys is gay and therefore bad.
It would be wrong for the Catholic church to argue that it was mostly girls, so it's ok, but by ignoring more than half the victims, they're implicitly saying that the abuse of girls is not part of the wrong doing.

Another stated that:

The Church has used the focus upon boys to try and scapegoat "gay" priests for the scandal.

Huge surprise.

As for women, girs impregnated by priests in Ireland were locked up in the Laundries to preserve the secret; they spent their lives cleaning the linens of the very priests who not only raped them but frequently cane back to the Laundries to help themselves to 'seconds.'

If the UN had any stones, they would declare the Vatican City-State to be a rogue nation and send in troops to stop the crime syndicate that is operating out of Mons Vaticanus.

Tim Trent, BN&S correspondent from Bracknell, UK, said:

I was heartily disgusted to read the Guardian article entitled 'Sex abuse rife in other religions, says Vatican'. The attempt to divert attention from the industrial scale abuse of boys and girls by Roman Catholic priests and nuns is odious, and the language they are quoted as using to try to do so is appalling.

For more of Tim's article; The Marketing of Blame, please go to his website, Marketing By Permission.

Adam Blaze, the managing editor of The Bilerico Project had this to say in his article, The Vatican Talks Man-Boy Love:

We're not so bad, at least not as bad as those child molestin' Protestant whores! And the Jews... don't get us started, don't even get us started!
Only 5% of priests have touched those beautiful, barely-11 (seriously, that's the line the Church is drawing) boys' bodies. That's about the chance Britney Spears has underwear on! *rimshot*

Efforts to get a response from Vatican diplomats at the Embassy of The Holy See here in Washington D.C. were rebuffed and instead BN&S was referred to the Vatican Mission to the United Nations in New York. A spokesperson there refused comment other than to say that the Archbishop's statement and remarks were approved by the Vatican.