EXCELLENT COLUMN ON THE SELECTIVE EXPLOITATION OF CHILD ABUSE
http://australianconservative.com/2010/04/how-campaigning-atheists-exploit-child-abuse/
How campaigning atheists exploit child abuse
 Ben-Peter Terpstra
Child abuse is an uncomfortable and confusing subject for many of us. Legally speaking, I’m talking nightmare material. But compassionate citizens ask: When people talk about real problems, are they causing them or exposing them?
The answer seems obvious enough. There’s no justification for sexual abuse – and survivors shouldn’t have to ask for permission to show their scars. Indeed, when leftwing celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg offer excuses for paedophiles, what messages are they sending to children?
It’s also important to note that survivors of sexual abuse can be used as political tools, by militant atheists. Or as the brilliant Tim Andrews argues:
I should begin by noting that obviously every instance of abuse is deplorable, and the Church of Rome has made numerous mistakes (to put it rather mildly) in their handling of the issue in the past. And I certainly think the Church of Rome’s institutional culture, combined with the modern innovation of clerical celibacy, is to blame to a large degree.
With that being said, however, it is clear beyond all doubt that the attacks on Pope Benedict XVI are without any substance whatsoever, a fact conceded by even those who have been previously scathing in their criticism of the Roman Church.
So why the attacks on Benedict? What is this all about, at its core? The thing is, this really, this isn’t about abuse in the Church of Rome. Not in the slightest. Rather, it is an act of desperation by an alliance of militant-atheists and a dying out breed of ultra-liberal Catholics opposed to the moves by the CoR to return, at least somewhat, to traditional values.
There are plenty of other examples. And questions. For starters: How does accusing a senior citizen without proof, help genuine victims? The truth is…it doesn’t.
Politics
While anti-Catholic journalists are trying to connect conspiratorial dots, dating back decades, to Benedict, more recent sexual abuse scandals are being watered down or buried. For proof, just read the Wall Street Journal:
U.N. forces in Congo in 2008 were suspected of sexual abuse of minors.
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A confidential probe by U.N. and Moroccan investigators turned up evidence [emphasis mine] that 14 soldiers were involved, according to a person familiar with the matter; DNA analysis showed some of them had fathered children with the victims. But the U.N. has never disclosed the results of the investigation or whether any of the soldiers were punished. The Moroccan government has stated that no conclusive evidence of abuse was found and that it dropped all charges.
More than six years after the United Nations implemented a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct by its peacekeepers, the organization is still struggling to persuade member states to investigate and discipline accused soldiers.
“It’s my biggest headache and heartache, this whole issue,†says Alain Le Roy, who has served as the U.N.’s under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations since 2008.
Heartache, indeed.
So where are all the full-throated investigative reporters covering Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon? Alas, many evangelical atheists have poisoned themselves with political correctness – meaning that the United Nations is ceremonially excused.
Although I differ with Tim Andrews on the celibacy question, I applaud his stand against pissy little atheists with anger issues. By and large, the media’s attacks on Catholicism (miles removed from constructive criticism) seem to spring from an angry place. Moreover, the mighty chorus tells us that the Church of the United Nations is beyond accountability, and that investigating sexual abuse allegations in Muslim-majority nations is also unfashionable because Islam is a “Religion of Peace.â€
Ben-Peter Terpstra is an Australian satirist who blogs at Pizza Trays And Beer Bottles. He also publishes the Quote Digger blog.
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