BREAKING: Gerad Slayton, Executive Director of an LGBTQ pride center was arrested in a child s*x sting on charges of attempting to meet a minor for lewd acts. pic.twitter.com/oUyoVdlqp0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 17, 2024
I say this because if you’ll remember every time a priest was accused of abusing a child, the media and their fellow travelers ranted that if only priests could marry this never would’ve happened.
Remember when the media really uncovered the abuse and the cover ups by the Church? I do. I applauded the media and urged the Church to do better.
But a funny thing happened after a while. The sexual abuse of children story just disappeared. Never mind that public schools have seen insane numbers of abuse of children over recent decades. Nothing about that. The sexual trafficking of children has been virtually ignored by the media. Jeffrey Epstein’s story was silenced by the media for years. And when that Christian movie with Jim Caviezel about this very issue, what happened? The media called it a conspiracy theory for nutters.
Hollywood made several movies about investigating the Church for covering up abuse. It was THE story. Good. But suddenly when we look for that abuse elsewhere it’s all crazy innuendo and debunked conspiracies. It’s almost like they never really cared about children at all but were using the scandal to take down the Church. Yeah, it’s almost like that.
January 18, 2024 at 10:28 am
its all about the narrative…
truth and/or science are only valid and meaningful when they bow to the narrative. And, this one is so clearly BS, that (as sad as it is) may teach us how Christianity has had explosive growth at various points in history…because the surrounding culture was such an obvious lie. [you will know them by their fruits]
January 19, 2024 at 6:13 am
The Catholic Church will continue to be attacked by the culture and rightly at times but we the Church are counter culture as it has always been. The world does not love the Church nor will it ever. Our end is the cross. Our Lord bore His cross and consequently was nailed to it. We should expect the same. We are a Church of saints and sinners. Saints who know they are sinners and sinners who think they are saints.