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I\u2019m delighted to see liberals and\/or feminists starting to do the same thing now.\u00a0The fact of these recent revelations\u00a0shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone in the slightest: not one bit<\/em>. The only surprise is: why did it take liberals and mainstream (largely liberal and secular) society so long<\/em> to finally say \u201cenough<\/em> is enough<\/em><\/strong>\u201c? Could it be, it\u2019s because the very sexual revolution that liberals have championed for so long, has arguably played a key role in bringing these scandals and outrageous behaviors (in terms of being so widespread) about?<\/div>\n
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And they say that conservatives (like me) supposedly care so much less<\/em> about \u201cwomen\u2019s issues\u201d and that liberals are so much more<\/em> compassionate and concerned, and treat women as equals? That\u2019s all exploded to hell now<\/em>, ain\u2019t it? Sexual sin knows no political boundaries. It\u2019s a human sin problem, and last I checked, we are all fallen creatures, with concupiscence and lust that we must overcome by God\u2019s grace. Liberals were ecstatic about Judgment Day Roy Moore (i.e., keeping the myth alive that this is supposedly more of a conservative and \u201cChristian hypocrisy\u201d \/ \u201cholier than thou\u201d problem), and then, lo and behold, the Senator Al Franken scandal arose . . . I must say: I\u00a0love<\/em> the irony and comedic timing there.<\/div>\n
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All of a sudden, now 70-something liberals like Jeff Greenfield (whom I have liked as a newsman through the years) become morally courageous (with Bill Clinton safely out of office and Hillary defeated and irrelevant) and say that Bill Clinton is a sexual predator? Welcome to the club, Jeff! Of course, we conservatives have been saying that since before Monica Lewinsky: all the way back to Gennifer Flowers in 1992 (that\u2019s 25 years, by my math). We were mocked and pilloried (the \u201cvast right-wing conspiracy\u201d routine); that is, till the blue dress appeared, and till Clinton admitted to at least the Lewinsky shenanigans. Where was all the vaunted, self-proclaimed liberal \u201csuperior\u201d concern for women and equal treatment, back then, and for the intervening 25 years? Radical feminist icon Gloria Steinem defended\u00a0The Zipper against all the allegations in 1998, in the New York Slimes<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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I wrote almost ten years ago, when the Catholic sex scandals were swirling around (which I immediately condemned in no uncertain terms), that this was universal in society. I documented how Protestants and Orthodox and institutions like the public schools had their own sex scandals, and said it was in every other sector of society, too, so that if only the Catholic Church is scrutinized, people will be allowing many other victims to suffer.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bingo<\/em><\/strong> (to use some Catholic lingo)! Now we have Hollywood (that surprises anyone<\/em>??!!) and national politicians (that does, too<\/em>?) and the press (Halperin)\u00a0being exposed for the same garbage.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The latest scandals all over the place also show very clearly that it\u2019s obviously not a problem confined to men who are supposed to be celibate by profession (priests). The Catholic scandals largely had to do with homosexual promiscuity and abuse of young men; but the current ones (at least those we are hearing<\/em> about) deal mostly with heterosexual promiscuity and immorality.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I wrote in my own combox, under an article about Protestant, Orthodox, and Jewish sex scandals, on 6 April 2008<\/a>: (italics and bolding added presently)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I refuse to sit by and accept the myth that these horrors only occur in Catholic circles<\/em> (since that is all we hear about in the media). It\u2019s just not true. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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I utterly condemn the heinous sins and at the same time tell the truth about where<\/em> they are occurring (and that is everywhere<\/strong>, pretty much<\/em>). If we pretend that it only<\/em> happens with priests<\/em>, then we are enabling the perpetrators to commit even more crimes<\/em><\/strong>, as we put our heads in the sand.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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In other words, pointing out the severe bias of the media is not helping the abuse continue; it is the pretense of \u201cCatholic only\u201d<\/em>\u00a0that does that, because then it can occur in all these other places, and folks aren\u2019t even aware<\/strong> of it<\/em> (which is exactly what the molesters and pedophiles like: safe anonymity).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Now, in November 2017, society is starting to wake up. How many thousands of victims could have been spared these past ten years, if folks had stopped pretending that it was only a problem in the Catholic Church, or that saintly, equal-rights-for-all bleeding-heart liberals (unlike those wicked conservative bigots and woman-haters) would never ever mistreat women and use and abuse them as a result of the so-called \u201cprivilege\u201d of their power and riches?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Again, in my blog post, \u201cWisconsin, Irish, German, and Other Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandals: Collection of Factual, Objective Links\u201d <\/a>(dated 4-21-10), I linked (in the final section) to several papers that contended for the same thing: the society-wide nature of these sexual problems<\/em>. That observation appeared to fall on deaf ears in our society till now. And so, in the meantime, that many more lives were harmed and altered forever (many literally ruined) by our society\u2019s unwillingness to face the facts. Here are some of those articles I linked to, with excerpts:<\/p>\n

\u201cSexual abuse is society\u2019s problem, too\u201d<\/a> (Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture<\/em>, 25 March 2010); excerpts:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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. . . take the public schools. When an accusation was lodged against the history teacher, a generation ago, was he prosecuted? Not likely. Far more often he was quietly let go, and eventually found a job teaching in another school\u2013just as priests were allowed to work in another parish. . . .<\/div>\n
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It wasn\u2019t just the Church. Society as a whole chose to avert its eyes and cover up the evidence of scandalous conduct. Now that the Church has been under fire for a decade or more, it\u2019s time to broaden the inquiry. What other institutions were guilty, and why? What other institutions need reform? . . .<\/div>\n
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For years now we have been talking about sexual abuse as a problem for the Catholic Church, and that it certainly is. But it\u2019s a problem outside the Church as well, and that problem should now be addressed.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u201cRabbi calls media coverage of Church abuse scandal one-dimensional\u201d<\/a> (Catholic News Agency<\/em>, 7 April 2010); excerpt:<\/div>\n
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A lot of sex abuse involving children is going on, the rabbi noted. \u201cIt\u2019s not simply a Catholic problem.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I even found one article that (almost prophetically) discussed the Hollywood director and child rapist Roman Polanski in conjunction with the Catholic scandals: \u201cDominic Lawson: The Pope is vilified, Polanski indulged\u201d<\/a> (Independent,<\/em> 19 April 2010; see more about Lawson<\/a>). Excerpts:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Polanski has not been doing the usual TV interviews that accompany critical acclaim. He is under house arrest in his Swiss chalet, fighting the attempts of a California court to extradite him for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl, Samantha Geimer, in 1977.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The world of film \u2013 indeed, of art in general \u2013 regards this (Polanski\u2019s arrest, that is, not his abuse of a 13-year-old girl) as a scandal. This attitude was most clearly evident in the remark of the Hollywood actress Whoopi Goldberg, who last year defended him with the observation, \u201cI know it wasn\u2019t rape-rape\u201d. With this remarkable neologism, Goldberg gave a new gloss to the old line (usually uttered by men) of \u201cshe said no, but she meant yes\u201d.<\/p>\n

Geimer\u2019s testimony to the grand jury of the Los Angeles Supreme Court therefore bears repetition. She told the court how the then 44-year-old director plied her with the drug Quaalude mixed with champagne at the home of Jack Nicholson, and then, ignoring her befuddled requests that she wanted to \u201cgo home\u201d, began to molest her. Polanski, obviously much less befuddled, repeatedly asked her if she was on the pill; not satisfied with the clarity of her response, he buggered her. . . .<\/p>\n

I had always imagined that it was people who raped children, rather than organisations, but perhaps Prof Dawkins is not so much interested in bringing men to book for their abuse of children, as the Catholic Church for the opinions it propagates. In fact this was made clear \u2013 Dawkins is at all times wonderfully lucid \u2013 in his book The God Delusion<\/em>, published in 2006. He wrote then that \u201cwe live in a time of hysteria about paedophilia, a mob psychology that calls to mind the Salem witchhunts of 1692\u201d. Dawkins went on: \u201cThe Roman Catholic Church has borne a heavy share of such retrospective opprobrium \u2026 I dislike the Catholic Church, but I dislike unfairness even more and I can\u2019t help wondering whether this one institution has been unfairly demonised over this issue, especially in Ireland and America.\u201d<\/p>\n

. . .\u00a0there is also a similarity between Polanski\u2019s behaviour and that of the sexually predatory priest. In both cases the abuse was one of a position of power. That is much more obvious in the case of the clergy: especially in a country such as Ireland, where the constitution of the Republic itself gave them \u201cspecial\u201d authority. They had, in effect, absolute power, which was not just (as Acton observed) absolutely corrupting, but which also intimidated their victims into acquiescence.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the world-famous film director fully understood the power he had over a 13-year-old would-be starlet, whose pictures he had promised to take for a future edition of French Vogue. It is almost the oldest story in Hollywood, but none the less disgusting for that; the defence of \u201cshe wanted it, really\u201d would not impress the cultural world if the proposer of that eternal exculpation were a man without artistic pedigree.<\/p>\n

Just as it was outrageous for the Catholic Church, at any level, to put the burnishing of the reputation of its priesthood ahead of the sufferings of children, so those who put their faith in artists should realise that they too have no special claim to be beyond good and evil.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So,\u00a0I tried to do my share to expose the society-wide sexual coercion going on: ten years ago and seven years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m very glad to see that finally the message is gaining traction: among all<\/em> political perspectives, so that at long last, instances of this monstrous behavior can be decreased<\/em>. Polanski was wildly cheered at a recent Hollywood awards show. Maybe now he won\u2019t be anymore. That\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n

Now, we see liberals condemning Bill Clinton\u2019s behavior: 25 years late, but better late than never (though they had no problem nominating his ultra-abuse-enabling wife). And we see Democrat Senators giving fellow Democrat Senator and pervert Al Franken no quarter. That\u2019s new<\/em>. And that means that (thank God) we have an opportunity to make some huge and long overdue changes in what our society permits, as regards [mostly] powerful men and their [mostly] female sexual victims.<\/p>\n

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Sexual abuse knows no political bounds.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2020\/06\/i-excoriated-society-wide-sexual-abuse-in-2007.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2020\/06\/i-excoriated-society-wide-sexual-abuse-in-2007.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2020\/06\/i-excoriated-society-wide-sexual-abuse-in-2007.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"I Excoriated Society-Wide Sexual Abuse in 2007"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/","name":"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism","description":"Catholic biblical apologetics","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/#\/schema\/person\/471eaa20e441eca4bb1ea50393cf632e","name":"Dave Armstrong","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/820e6db89734ae7a9e5dac8d498f5ac7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/820e6db89734ae7a9e5dac8d498f5ac7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dave Armstrong"},"description":"Dave Armstrong is a Catholic author and apologist, who has been actively proclaiming and defending Christianity since 1981, and Catholicism in particular since 1991 (full-time since December 2001). Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. They have three sons and a daughter, and reside in southeast Michigan (metro Detroit).","sameAs":["https:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dave.armstrong.798","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LuxVeritatisApologetics"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/author\/davearmstrong"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}