By Selwyn Duke
After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a
radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare moderate in talk radio,
although he’s most notable for only moderately deep thinking. He was
talking about the Catholic Church sex scandal, and he fielded a caller
proposing a unique solution: allow priests to have concubines. This
prompted the host to chime in and opine that perhaps the discipline of
celibacy should be revisited. After all, said he, it’s only the Catholic
Church that has “these problems.” It’s the kind of shallow analysis
that passes for social commentary today.
First, the notion that only the Catholic Church “has these problems”
is a media-generated fiction. In fact, a recent AP investigation
found that sexual misconduct — and cover-ups to avoid scandal — are
rampant in the government school system. It discovered 1,801 educators
who were found guilty of sexual misconduct with youths between 2001
and 2005 alone. Moreover, reports the AP, this is the tip of the
iceberg, as most cases go unreported.
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