LogFAQs > #964023137

Yeah so growing up with the Catholic church, they do two things that cause this problem.

They say it's ok to "have attractions" to men, but not to act on it. Their 4 vocations that every Catholic should fall into are married, single, nun, or priest. They say you should not get married if you do not intend on having kids.

It's said that every Catholic fits into those 4 vocations, so gay men are more inclined to become priests. They like to take sexually repressed gay men and put them in the company of young guys all day long. They also tell young men it's a mortal sin to masturbate, if they do it without confessing and then they die they will go to hell, end of story. So half the time a priest is interacting with a young man it's to discuss the young man's sexual experimentation.

So all the young Catholic boys are also going to pews and telling these old sexually repressed often gay men that they are masturbating in a private setting, all because everyone involved is taught from a young age not to use their critical thinking skills or question how things work, because that's a sin.

Then they handle all incidents internally, because why would they go to the law? They're taught that they are the ultimate moral authority, so they in their eyes they are the ones to hand out punishments and reform people. And of course, they don't do a good job, they just shuffle the predators around after the predators grovel for forgiveness.

It's almost like every problem in the entire thing all comes back to people trying to build a functioning social network from fundamental beliefs and not embracing research at any point. They just put two magnets together because that's the way the system works and they keep wondering why they keep sticking together.