If everything is going fine in the United States, why did the Roman Catholic Church, in a document officially issued Nov. 29, 2005, ban most homosexual men from becoming priests? Specifically, it forbade candidates “who are actively homosexual, have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called gay culture.”

One of the answers, according to a study by the John Jay College of Justice, is that from 1950 through 2002 more than 4,000 priests have been accused of sexually abusing more than 10,000 people. Settlements with the victims, more than 80 percent were male, have cost the church more than $500 million. This can be checked on the law school Web site.

Historically, many of the great art works of the Renaissance had “kiddie porn” elements, in particular the great David of Donatello, which today would get Donatello arrested and taken off to jail.

Man/boy love is perfectly obvious in the pagan homoerotic art tradition, from Greek and Roman sculpture to poetry of the 19th century.

Politics doesn't trump science. For example, Karl Logan writes in the July 16, 2004 edition of The Citizen, “In the sexual abuse of boys published in the AMA journal - perpetrators tend to be males who consider themselves to be heterosexuals.” The latter statement is false and misleading. Gay is male to male and heterosexual is male and female. What the AMA stated is 95 percent of Americans are heterosexuals, so they commit the most opposite sex crimes.

Another example, in the same letter is that Logan went to Rosa Grube, education coordinator at SAVAR that he referred to “as rape crisis ward.” Her answer was “I've never seen homosexuals to be an issue with child molesters.”

One answer is that SAVAR is a quasi-political organization that supports homosexual causes. The question is how far are they willing to go?

Gale Martin

Auburn