Volcano? The Gays.

Flood? The Gays

Tornado? The Gays.

Hurricane? The Gays.

Mass shooting? The Gays

9/11? Yep. The Gays.

When something, anything, goes wrong, the religious immediately claim it is God’s punishment for the Gays. You might not be one, but you might not reject them, so, it’s God’s punishment for your perversion.

So, if your church has a problem, put it on the Gays.

Sexual predators do not roam, they will be too open to the possibility of getting seen or caught. Like pack animals hunting a herd, they do not run to the front and go after the stronger animals, they hold back and grab the weaker ones in the back that are more convenient with the attack less likely to be noticed.

They will also feel freer to hunt their prey if they know that the people in authority will do nothing.

The two major elements the predator welcomes are convenience and tacit permission.

In a patriarchal institution like the Catholic Church the available and convenient prey are boys.

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In a letter to Catholics in the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, in response to the latest predator priest revelations, Bishop Robert Morlino wrote.

“It is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord.

There has been a great deal of effort to keep separate acts which fall under the category of now-culturally-acceptable acts of homosexuality from the publically-deplorable acts of pedophilia. That is to say, until recently the problems of the Church have been painted purely as problems of pedophilia — this despite clear evidence to the contrary. It is time to be honest that the problems are both and they are more.”

However, his statement, that there is “clear evidence”, isn’t consistent with the criminal justice study released in 2011 by John Jay College which studied the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse record from 1950 to 2010 and was commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, of which Morlino is one. It found no correlation between homosexual identity and the sexual abuse of minors, or that homosexual priests were more likely to abuse minors than heterosexual priests.

Ironically and counter to the bishops charge that acceptance of Gays has produced an increase of incidents of sexual abuse, the study found a decline in incidents of priestly abuse when large numbers of gay men entered seminaries in the 1970s and 1980s.

He, and those who push this same falsehood, want to distract with “the Gays” and ignore the need to examine the churches hierarchical system.

Referring to the problem as the result of a “homosexual subculture”  hides the fact that women are also victims and silences women victims.

Saying the abuse is “Gay sex”, also silences male victims who fear being labeled as Gay, there is still a negative attitude about Gay people based, in part, on how Gays are spoken of by those who benefit from misinformation, and reduces a crime to a mere moral failing that prayer and repentance can clear up, until the next time.

Child sex abuse is a crime of violence committed by those in positions of power over their prey who use sex as a weapon.

The offense, besides the acts of abuse, is the cover up and deflection of responsibility, and it appears the church does not want to accept its responsibility.

And until it does, sexual abuse will continue with the tacit permission of those in charge who look for people to blame other than themselves, their structure, and their institutional history.