It was, of course, on South Park a while back. Jesus comes back and reprimands the Pope and Bill Donohue for, you know, screwing everything up (prescient, Trey and Matt, prescient), and Donohue has them both arrested.
He would. It’s particularly appropriate right now since it’s Holy Week for Christians and since Bill Donohue has been embarrassing himself and his church all over the teevee a lot lately.
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Wayne, I need someone to do some homework for me.
As you may be aware, Donohue’s latest outburst is related to an alleged DOE report by one “Charol Shakeshaft” that alleges that public school teacher sexual abuse is ‘much worse’ than that which occurs at the hands of Catholic clergy child rapists.
According to an article in the rabid hardline Canadian antiabortion “Lifesite” that cites this alleged report, Donohue is quoted:
‘Isn’t it news that the number of public school students that have been abused by a school employee is more than 100 times greater than the number of minors that have been abused by priests?’ he asked
‘All these reporters, columnists, talking heads, attorney generals, DAs, psychologists and victims groups who were so quick on the draw to ‘get priests’ (sic)have a moral obligation to pursue this issue to the max. If they don’t, they’re a fraud.’
I’m going off to do some digging. I’ll be back with anything I find about this latest outburst. I suggest that you may want to do the same…
Oops, sorry. The article in question is:
“Forgotten study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse Than By Priests” Lifesite: 01.04.10:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10040101.html
See you later…
Got him! It didn’t take anything more than a visit to the Wikipedia article on Charol Shakeshaft to find out precisely why it is that her research report is not often cited. According to the Washington Post, citing the Times-Picayune back in 2004 (cited at the source below), it was criticised by national US teachers unions at the time for its sloppy research design, which did not distinguish between sexual harrassment and full-scale child sexual abuse, therefore artefactually inflating the numbers of the latter.
Clearly, any sort of professional sexual harrassment is patently unjustifiable and should be grounds for disciplinary sanctions and dismissal. However, it is not child rape.
Donohue is *lying* again. What a surprise:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34518-2004Jul7_3.html
Even if the teacher stat were true, and I’m not surprised that it was another lie, the clergy and especially the upper hierarchy are held to a higher standard and have much more power and influence over people (and children) then a single school teacher. So, yes, it *is* worse when the church engages in these heinous crimes, including the cover-ups.
To help gauge the care and attention given to the quality of the work… you may be interested in two of the references that Shakeshaft has used in her 2004 report.
Cameron, P. (1993). Child Molestation and Homosexuality. Colorado Springs, Colo.:
Family Research Institute.
Cameron, P, Proctor, K, Coburn, W Jr, Forde, N, Larson, H, Cameron, K. (1986) Child
molestation and homosexuality. Psychological Reports. 58, pp. 327-37; 57,
pp. 1227-1236.
Oh, I see. Thank you, Grant. Given Mr Cameron’s cavalier approach (…) to mainstream scientific and social scientific proof, what a surprise to learn that Shakeshaft’s obvious mendacity mongering and shoddy ‘research design’ is of similar provenance. Not. As a matter of interest, does Shakeshaft cite that other subcultural ‘luminary’ of utter junk science, Dr Judith Reisman, as one of her other ‘sources’ in this context?