Reply #34: Well, let's see [View All]

Maybe you can start by justifying your use of the word "bigoted".

Then explain how pointing out the inherent conflicts of interest in the compilation and release of the report is "neither rational nor factual". Or pointing out the flawed use of statistical data (something Myers does know a thing or two about, btw), including the church's (notoriously reliable) self-reporting of abuse cases to determine where "peaks" were. Then you might use your intimate familiarity with the report to explain the dishonest dodge of trying to re-define "pedophilia". Or why it even matters to a decent human being how many of the victims of sexual abuse were younger than 10 in the first place. Or why an organization that claims to get its moral sense from an eternal god blames the perceived moral looseness of two decades of human history for the sexual abuse of children by priests (many of whom went through seminary long before that, and shouldn't have needed to be "trained" not to sexually abuse children in any case).

And I'm not "speaking for the board". Just telling you what to expect with your thinking. Anyone else is free to tell you different without checking with me.

And you can feel free to defend the report and the Catholic Church to your heart's content.