Reply #21: You're absolutely right in what you say, but I believe that most men [View All]

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become priests or ministers or rabbis intending to be true to their vows. Those who know they are pedophiles or ephebophiles often believe that serving God as a clergyman will deliver them from temptation. Obviously, anyone old enough to be a cleric should know what his/her sexual appetites are, but denial can be powerful, especially in someone who believes they have a vocation, a call, to serve God.

No matter what he or she does for a living, anyone who is proven to have abused a child should go to prison and be kept away from children forever. The latter is easier said than done, though, as we've seen in various cases reported in the news of pedophiles freed from prison only to not only rape but kill their new victims.