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Wednesday, 31 March 2010

A damascene conversion

From
they are sad, pitiful losers, the furthest of outcasts from our society.
[...]
they can undergo counselling that reduces their chances of reoffending substantially.
To
I'm not really inclined to spend my time engaging with paedophile-defenders like - as you put it - "His Holiness."
[...]
I hope one day you have an awareness of the despicable and evil crime you are defending
How times change!

See posts at Dolphinarium:
Paedophiles are Human Too
and
Johann Hari's rude and bigoted reply to a reader who corrected his factual inaccuracies

Let me be clear: the Pope is not a paedophile-defender, far from it. That slur was in response to a reader who dared to correct Jonathan Hari's outrageous misrepresentation of Crimen Sollicitationis and Pope Benedict. For a sympathetic approach to offenders (particularly if they are pop stars) cf. Johann Hari's earlier article Paedophiles are People Too.

2 comments:

Pons Sixtus said...

For a long time, I've wondered why anyone with half a brain would even want to read Johann Hari. By and large, he's an unpleasant, 'one issue' (i.e., homosexual rights) journalist, who screams like a spoiled brat should anyone dare to disagree with his point of view.

Dominic Mary said...

Sorry, Father, have I got it wrong . . . Johann Hari is a 'sad pitiful loser' ?

Sounds a fairly accurate, if rather over-generous, statement to me.

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