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Catholic priests aren't the only ones who molest kids. Where there is a position of power, there will be someone who abuses it. The reason Catholic priests are more visible is because the Catholic Church is a nice, tidy, unified bogyman; everybody knows about the Vatican and the Pope, but can you tell me who the current archbishop of Canterbury is? Who keeps track of all of these Methodists and Presbyterians? Where's the headquarters for the Southern Baptists, and who's the chief bible-thumper? Protestantism is too fractured, Judaism is equally decentralized, and at the moment, everyone is more concerned about Muslims blowing them up rather than whether the imams are diddling kiddies down at the mosque while the ayatollahs cover up for them. That said, there is a long history of men hiding their sexuality behind a Roman collar, whether they do it out of a sincere belief that through prayer, service, and abstinence, they can overcome what they perceive as a moral flaw (I speak in terms of perception not because I think pedophilia is fine, but because most of the literature I've read deals more with homosexuals than pedophiles and ephebophiles) or because they feel that a vow of celibacy is a more easily managed beard than a spouse. Sadly, again from what little I've read about pedophiliac priests, a lot of them fall into the former category, and, being only human, find themselves unable to resist temptation.

Hey, I just quote things.

Don't tell me what to do.

I did not know that, but if it's true, it would be really cool.😎

I finally got a chance to read the Satanic Bible last summer, and ritual Enochian bullshit aside, LaVey's Church of Satan is one of the most reasonable religions out there.

"Do what thou wilt, be the whole of the Law.". (Aleister Crowley)

500 minimum; 500 - 1000 is recommended.

You forgot leave the seat up.

My kids loved them, and now the grandkids watch them - I've got four or five sets on DVDs, so they watch them over and over, and repeat lines like "Remind me to kill you later" and "Look at the grouse" and "Niagara Falls..." over and over and over.

"It" being the 3 Stooges. There's no way in hell I'm sitting through Pikachu doing anything.

Both.

I know. But he's 6 - he'll happily dance with Pikachu for and hour and a half, and if he's dancing with Pikachu, he's not quoting the 3 Stooges at me.

Thank you - Dexter will be so pleased.

That's oddly titillating.

I did it in like 5 minutes once. Of course, a screwdriver was involved...

If we were cool kids, would we even be here?

Middle aged spread.

Not so much as back in the days of the "Curseyehameha."

There are those for whom attention is the end game. Flaunting one's sexuality is preferable to a rampaging case of Munchausen's.

Could be worse - I had this one. For three solid days. Don't know how it got there, was very glad when it left.

I hated my middle name so much that when I got married, I dropped it. Now I use my maiden name as a middle name, especially considering the juxtaposition of my Slavic name with my husband's Gaelic one - infinitely more fun.

A bit?

Benadryl will make one hallucinate. It does, however, require a metric fuck-ton of them. And it's difficult to walk the fine line between "make one hallucinate" and "make one seize."

A wet rock

If he was only banned once, you only need to ask him once.