House of Cards was coming to an end anyway.

But, the Spacey things brings up an interesting point.

Do you suppose Hollywood will face the same media backlash that was unleashed on the Catholic Church when their pedophile priest problem was exposed?  

The Catholic Church did not have a pedophile problem so much is they had a homosexual problem.  A career path involving all men must be highly attractive to a homosexual. And whether society wants to admit it or not, homosexuality has an uncomfortable relationship with pedophilia. The question is: is Hollywood facing the same thing?  Is there a higher percentage of gay men in the Arts than in the general population?

Not to agree with, or disagree with anyone but: in the early 70's the facility for the mentally retarded I worked at had a fairly high number of gays on the staff (male & female).  Not a few but a fairly good number of the males  told me they first seduced young men in their early teens, know as jailbait to most of us. The gals also were active with the young gals...  So I sort of suspect they may be a statistical correlation-but I don't know if for a fact.

As you probably remember, the church was known for bending boys over the alter and the Senate for turning over their pages.....naughty naughty everywhere.

WebsterMark wrote on 10/30/17 at 16:36:03:


Potter does  

The definitive report on the Catholic priest scandal was done by John Jay College. The analyzed over 4,200 church leaders accused of abuse.

Straight from the report.

"The largest group of alleged victims (50.9%) was between the ages of 11 and 14, 27.3% wer e 15-17, 16% were 8-10 and nearly 6% wer e under age 7. Overall, 81% of victims wer e male and 19% female. Male victims tended to be older than female victims. Over 40% of all victims wer e males between the ages of 11 and 14."

I was reading up on this and ran across the term "twink". I wouldn't look it up if I were you and I advise not to do it on your work computer or you may be out of a job, but it's a regular term among gay men.

and more:  homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls." This bears out: Although homosexuals comprise only 1–3 percent of the entire population, they are committing up to 33 percent of all sex crimes against children.

Look, I know most of society today prefers to accept homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality, but the fact remains since a small percentage claims this is their inherent sexuality, it is by definition a deviancy. It has ramifications. The priest abuse was one.

Note, the report reserves a scathing critique of hiring bishops and senior church management whom they classified as "gay friendly." This is why the % of Catholic priest who self identify as gay is far higher than the general population. If you're gay and religious, what better career path?

It's something of a tradition that sexually confused, repressed boys that are raised religious, gravitate towards the clergy...
Once you've gathered them together in one occupation, it only makes sense that the statistics would skew accordingly.
Now you've got a bunch of screwed up men in a position of trust and authority with free access to children,... mostly boys.
There aren't any alter girls...  

It's a problem of the churches own making...
The irony of condemnation and repression...

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/31/17 at 08:56:24:

Why do you think there are so many gay priests?...

I has seen it in a hundred movies...