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Link leads back to Slog.
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Link doesn't go anywhere. :o(
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The appearance was great though!
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I hope it's lovely to be called "White-House-backed", though.
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Peedo clerics?

Call for....Flirty Harry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7YCKmna…

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I thought Dan's two lines on Real Time were excellent (about confusing gays with child-rapist priests and about priests claiming moral high ground when they're the ones raping children).

Well done Dan!
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They are the judges. They just don't want to be judged. That's an unsavory role.
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Read the comments, they are hilarious(ly awful). What sucks even more is they are going after Terry. They sound like they are arrested in a perpetual state of puberty.
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Of course not. You were supposed to ignore them.
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@9 They're probably scared of Terry's hotness. Dan should be more careful taking him out in public.
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child rapists go where it is easy to prey on children: teachers, camp counselors, baby sitters, bus drivers, etc, and yes, priests & pastors.

All priests are not child rapists, just like all teachers and baby sitters are not child predators. Child rapists will sometimes fill the roles of priests and others to prey on children. It does not mean all the people in those roles do this. It would be like saying all parents molest their children just because some bad parents do this.

I really wish people would stop calling priests child rapists just because a few predators slithered below the radar and did this. Dan only bad mouths calling all priests rapist because he hates religion. He shouldn't generalize it to all priests because most of them do not do this. How can he expect others to accept and/or tolerate his ideals when he is so unaccepting & intolerant of others (like those who choose to be religious).
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@12: The difference is that summer camps and schools actively try to drive out such behavior and severely punish those who engage in it.

Whereas religious groups hide, protect, and do everything they can ensure that the predators can keep on raping children, especially the Catholic Church.

One group protects child rapists, and the other persecutes them. It is a pretty obvious distinction if you think about it clearly without your religious feelings and need to protect your worldview clouding your judgement.
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Good interview Dan. I was impressed with your compassionate understanding of how anger would bring out the 15 year old's expletives even after the mature mind has evolved. I remain surprised though at the concurrent failure of compassionate understanding in regards to the empathy gap being filled when people have personal experience that defies their ideology. People naturally believe whatever those they trust and respect tell them, right up until personal experience tells them otherwise. No one has the capacity to be an expert on everything so we rely on trusted others to fill in our knowledge gaps. We should celebrate when experience brings folks empathy, rather than shake our heads at their "hypocrisy."
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@11, even I'm scared of Terry's hotness. One glimpse and I collapse in a puddle of dysmorphia.
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@12 the difference is that teachers, day care providers, and other child care professionals all have to go through extensive background checks. They are heavily scrutinized and any improper behavior is required by law to be reported. The Catholic church does not conduct background checks on its clergy, and they have an extensive history of covering up child abuse by pedophile preists. This practice is so heavily ingrained in the church that even the Pope himself has been implicated. Any reputation the Catholic Church has earned for harboring child molesters is well deserved.
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@12 You make a good, if elementary, point: not all priests are child abusers. Here's the problem, though: the church has worked diligently to protect those individuals. Most people who bash the RCC, myself included, are appalled by the extent to which the hierarchy of the church itself worked to hide, deny, obfuscate, etc. what was going on. We probably would have still been upset when we a pedophile priest was outed, far less than we were when a pedophile priest was outed, 25 years and 5 parish transfers after he started abusing . It's not enough to say most priests don't do that: we get that. But we're not inclined to forget that the organization abetted them throughout the time when they were committing these horrific acts.
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Also gays have molested and raped children too. Sexuality does not matter when it comes to child predators. They are sick freaks (child predators) and they come in the form of heteros and homos. Just like they fill any role in society that lets them get close to children.

It is a very flimsy argument and insult what Dan waved around, about gays not raping children and child rapist priests. Because there are gay people out there who DO rape children (though not all of them do), and not all priests rape children. He should come up with a better argument. The argument he made completely underscores the problem of sexual predators and gives people a false impression about them.

This really hit a nerve for me. I was raped by a baby sitter and later by my cousin. The baby sitter who raped me was gay, but my cousin is straight. I let my guard down around the sitter cause I'm a woman and I did not expect it since he was not attracted to me, but rape is not about attraction. I have a close male friend who was raped by the apartments care taker (a man) who used the key (which he had access to from his position) to break into his apartment and do this. This care taker could be gay or straight, cause it isn't about sexual orientation or being attracted to the victim. My male friend had it worse cause people started calling him a fag for being raped by a guy.

I've only spoken to one person in all of the support groups I've been to who was raped by a pastor (not even a priest, a baptist pastor), so this isn't an issue of religion when it comes to rapists. It is about rapists & predators finding positions of power and/or opportunity to victimize people. Dan needs to lay the freak off and stop giving people the misconception that it has ANYTHING to do with gays and that it is a catholic problem- because it is NOT!!!
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@12 The Catholic Church is the largest single Christian denomination controlled by a strong, monolithic hierarchy. That this church's hierarchy not only repeatedly and systematically shielded any of its priests from prosecution when accused of child molestation, but routinely reassigned them to positions where they would still have contact with children, makes the entire denomination institutionally culpable for decades, if not centuries of child molestation.

The comparisons by apologists to random offending members of other denominations, or to offenses by secular teachers is laughable. The Catholic priesthood is a single organization, with a single monarch at the head of it, a strong ruling hierarchy with the power to discipline or remove priests, if they wished, which they regularly do for not following official doctrine. That means that all the child molestations committed by all the priests of that church were committed by a single institution, complicit throughout, an organization which has actively worked to hide those offenses, move the offenders to other legal jurisdictions to hamper investigations and allow them to offend repeatedly.
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To everyone,

Yeah religions protect pedophiles, along with the rest of the world. My family protected my cousin instead of me when I told about him. The guy who hired the one who raped my male friend, he performed a back ground check which showed a history of sexual assault, but still felt it okay to hire him to a custodial position with access to all of the keys. My sitter knew her son was like that when she decided to leave us (my sister and me) alone with him when we were just small children.

I'm sure some people perform back ground checks and don't hire people like that, but rape is under reported so it will not always show up on a back ground check. Even when it does, some people still feel the need to hire these scum bags. Families are the worst at protecting predators, and I've spoken to so many victims who were ostracized by their families cause they decided to protect the perp. I'm not defending religion. That was not my reason for bringing this stuff up. I'm ticked at Dan for using child predators in his little speech and marginalizing it to a religious and sexual orientation thing. He's not the only one to do this. I'm sick of it being a religion thing. What about all the other idiots out there who protects them, and I'm really tired of families who protect them. It should be a crime.
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@9 If you want to see even more awful comments, follow the link on weaselzippers to mediaite, where the original post is.

It's like an offended-papists & homophobes convention.
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@10 hit the nail on the head. Exposing the faults of authority figures is a worse sin than authority figures abusing children in the eyes of authoritarians.
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I dunno, heartfelt@14. I was pro-gay-rights as a teenager, back in the freaking '70's, and in the complete absence of knowing that I knew anyone gay. It was the result of a basic ability to do moral reasoning about a situation I myself hadn't experienced. There is a real difference between conservatives and liberals in this regard.
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All those comments on weaselzippers are predictably nasty, but this one was funny in referring to Terry as Orville Reddanthrobbin.
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@14 Hypocrisy is when you use a far laxer standard of ethics for governing your own actions than you use in judging others. It's kind of the opposite of empathic enlightenment.
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our family LOVED every single word.
thank you for speaking the TRUTH, Dan.
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One picture is worth a thousand words. These two homosexuals are smiling because Biden has agreed to meet them in the men's room.
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@ 27 Yeah, you said that over the comments at weaselzippers. It's not really funny enough to post twice, sorry. Don't quit your day job.
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Wow, I read some of the comments on the original site. Every time I read shit like that I start to think that the end of human life on earth wouldn't really be such a loss. People can really be just horrible and without any redeeming virtue. Let the planet chug along without us.
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This can't be that reliable. Look at their punctuation. -ly adverbs do not need hyphens after them.
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so does Terri not own an iron?
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couldn't Danny spare one measly sixth of one nights lecture fee and get the kid braces?
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but it was nice of Danny to take his grandson to meet the veep......
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isn't Terri a little young for a comb-over?
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^ YO troll. What do you have against family? I assume you are aware that parents and kids age, that they are not some sort of crisply ironed and framed Sears or should say Walmart portrait. Static in time and ever the Leave it to Beaver icon.

Then again maybe your family is such a horror your best memory is that forced, freshly scrubbed, discount store "Family Portrait".
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The best part about that article are the comments. I thought they were trolls at first. You can't make this shit up, it is pure unrefined comic GOLD.
The best one reads: "One picture is worth a thousand words. These two homosexuals are smiling because Biden has agreed to meet them in the men's room."

As if Biden could tap that.
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I used to live near a Catholic church. I now live across the street from a 2 Dad family. Which one has history shown to not be safe for children?

Dan was freaking sharp on Real Time. I definitely got a whiff of "How dare you! I'm an excellent father!" from the exchange. Go Dad!

Peace
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@22 "Exposing the faults of authority figures is a worse sin than authority figures abusing children in the eyes of authoritarians."

A Canadian priest has been excluded from his community in Montreal, after he alerted his colleagues during a meal, over the fact that a 18-year-old had confided in him of having been raped by a priest over whom the said community had authority.

He was ordered to shut up at once by his superior. A few hours later, he was ordered to take his meals in a room separate from other priests, Some days or months after that, he was finally let go.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Whistle…

http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actuali…

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