Obscura V

Bad Not surprising news: - Listen up all heavy drinkers

Well there you have it, if you're sucking down the drink in excess, you might as well be shooting up. Alcohol is a menace when abused, just like everything else. The difference is you can get drunk anywhere, anytime and people will just tut-tut and move on. Imagine if you could legally walk up to a bar, order a hit of any drug and just administer it to yourself right there. Absurd, isn't it?

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Good-in-the-long-term-news: - Any exposure for the issue is good

Don't get me wrong, I don't have any bone to pick with any religion (I'm an agnostic with atheist tendencies depending on the day- call me a fence sitter if you must) except when they impose bone headed rules such as celibacy for their priests. It doesn't make sense to ask of a person to give up or suppress their sexuality when they are flesh and bone beings like all of us. If a Catholic priest is allowed to get his ya-yas out at home, whether he is straight or gay, it is very unlikely that he would find it necessary or desirable to molest his altar boys, unless he's also a pedophile, which is a different matter altogether. Who made this celibacy crap up anyway?

As far as retribution for the past victims of the abuse, I'm not entirely sure if an apology will be enough to ease their emotional suffering. Perhaps a few million dollars per victim might help. For any future abuse there is only one right thing to do and that is to encourage and make it safe for victims to speak up immediately, a sort of 'training for altar boys', if you will. One thing is for certain, this apathy and sweeping under the rug of the issue by the church is a bunch of cowardly bullsh*t.


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