John D.R. Atchison
Associated Press – October 6, 2007:
A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to molest a 5-year-old girl committed suicide in his cell Friday in federal prison, authorities said.
Atchison, 53, was arrested last month at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after weeks of Internet conversations between the prosecutor and a detective posing as the mother of a 5-year-old girl, authorities have said.
He was carrying presents for the girl, including a doll and hoop earrings, and also had sexual materials, including petroleum jelly.
Ewww!
Barney Frank hired a male hooker and possibly helped him run a prostitution ring out of Frank’s house. Google “Steve Gobie” for more info.
Brian Doyle , Bush appointee, not a Democratic activist. (2007)
Neil Goldschmidt, guilty (1970s)
Rep. Mel Reynolds, Did not receive a pardon from Clinton. Served his full sentence for sex with a 16 y/o (1992)
Sen. Daniel Inouye, accusations that investigations found to be groundless (1970s)
Former Rep. Gus Savage, yup, sexually harassed a woman (1989)
Sen. Brock Adams, accused, never indicted (1987)
Rep. Fred Richmond, guilty (1978)
Rep. John Young, accused, never indicted (1976)
Gerry Studds, although distasteful, no crime committed. (1983)
Barney Frank, ?????
So out of ten names, you are wrong on six and the seventh is too far off the charts to even be considered, But, ya gotta luv it when the right wing apologists copy crap from their fellow right wingers with out verifying.
But I noticed you missed
Rep. Jon Hinson (R-Miss.), arrested for oral sodomy in Congressional restroom (1980) (Married with children)
Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.), charged with oral sodomy Washington restroom (1980) Married with children and family values guy)
Reps. Dan Crane (R-Ill.), Sex with underage Congressional Page (1981) (Accused along with Gary Studds, Family values guy with children)
Rep. Ernie Konnyu (R-Calif.), accused of sexual harassment by staffers (1987)
Rep. Donald “Buz” Lukens (R-Ohio), guilty of sex with 13 y/o (1989). Later charged with sexual assault of an Elevator Operator (1990)(Family type guy, wife, kids, values)
Rep. Arlan Stangeland (R-Minn.), Made hundreds of call from various mistress’s homes on Government credit card (1990), (married with seven children.)
If that is not enough, then try this link
The Urban Dictionary of Republican Pedophiles
http://tinyurl.com/e67y5
29. Smartalix
http://tinyurl.com/crt4r
Also check Wikipedia for each of these dudes.
Here’s about 80 cases of Democratic misconduct.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743276/posts
I guess this must prove all Democrats are inherently evil.
RBG
#11, TheMe, “Even if all of christian priests were pedophiles, its nothing compared to”…”You follow too much stories shown in medias owned and controlled mostly by people of one anti-christian religion, me thinks”
So that makes it insignificant? Posters here have collected accounts of a handful of pedophile politicians and relatively few victims… a tiny fraction compared to the many thousands of defiled children at the hands of many thousands of priests.
#33, RBG,
There is still nothing to suggest Frank committed any crime. His story is plausible and the verifiable facts did check out. Also, Frank never pretended to hate gays. Nor was he ever accused of giving blow jobs in a washroom.
When your first eleven examples all have “Unindicted…” after them, that shows how far you are stretching.
It shows how badly conservatives will lie, distort, and smear their opposition. Which shows that they, in turn, are the evil ones.
35. Mr. F. If you decide to play by rules that are based on what the accused says and what they present as “plausible” then Larry Craig too is in the clear.
RBG
#34
Of course it doesn’t make it insignificant, it only shows your cowardice 🙂
You are so eager to ‘strike’ at christian priests just because you know they won’t strike back at you.
I have only pointed out that millions of muslims do the same thing with the blessing of their religion on a daily basis (versus very small percentage of deviant christian priests) so why don’t you talk about pedophile side of entire muslim religion instead of making insignificant (compared to muslims) ‘news’ on few deviants among christian priests?
Every religion, race, nation etc etc have their share of deviants, but christianity and their priest are not the ones who applaud pedophile behaviours, so why not talk about where it really matters: islamic countries and muslim religion, if you *really* want to condemn pedophilism 😀
#36, RBG,
I agree. He should never have pleaded guilty. There is not enough evidence to convict him. I am quite sure the only reason he did is because the very arrest is a career killer, as we see.
Now do I give a crap if he does pick up other gay men. If they are willing then there should be no problem. I do care about someone carrying on a gay life in secret while in public castigating homosexuality so strongly.
TheMe, like most christians, you are a hypocrite. Why not clean up your own act before pointing your finger at others? All christian churches are a mess, with as many as 40% nuns and other female workers reporting sexual abuse by priests.
As for Muslims, Africa and pedophiles, why don’t you ask your god to clean up his act. After all, they are HIS children.
#37 TheMe Every religion, race, nation etc etc have their share of deviants, but christianity and their priest are not the ones who applaud pedophile behaviours, so why not talk about where it really matters: islamic countries and muslim religion, if you *really* want to condemn pedophilism
Actually, for me, it matters a bit less what is happening in other countries. An older Muslim man marrying a 13 year old girl, in a culture where that is normal and expected, is a far, far cry from a priest diddling a five year old. Not only that, in the west I think we’d do better to take the log in of our own eyes before we start looking at the sawdust in other people’s eyes.
There is no justification for kiddie fiddling priests and their is no justification for the people who turned a blind eye to these priests. it was wrong, and it should be identified as wrong and be punished as wrong. There is not ‘well these people do this’ or ‘those people do that’ about it. Not just Catholicism, but the whole of Christianity should look at what its churches has done in its name and hang our heads in shame not look to other religions as try to shift the attention away from our sins.
Well said Ben. My level of frustration just went down 5 notches. 🙂
40. Ben
Since we all seem to be in agreement that this is an example of homosexuality being induced – in this case by strict Christian doctrines, abstentions and regimen – perhaps Christians need to invent a homosexuality test.
RBG
42. RBG Since we all seem to be in agreement that this is an example of homosexuality being induced – in this case by strict Christian doctrines, abstentions and regimen – perhaps Christians need to invent a homosexuality test.
Pedophilia and homosexuality are two completely and totally different things. We are most certainly not in agreement about homosexuality being induced! Homosexuality is what happens when two adults of the same gender fall in love and have a relationship with each other. Pedophilia is what happens when a pervert can’t control his actions and hurts a child for his own gratification.
Personally, I don’t think its celibacy that causes kiddie fiddling priests. I think people who find themselves sexually attracted to children will be drawn towards a celibate life as a way of avoiding coming to terms with their sexual disorder. Unfortunately, once they are in the priesthood they are surrounded by children and the temptation is too great. I am sure there are some twisted bastards who join the priesthood simply because it gives them access to children, but I like to think most start off honestly then get corrupted.
The worse thing for kiddie fiddlers is that people who find themselves sexually attracted to children have little or no support to find a way of dealing with their disorder because they so they start attacking children. What would be really helpful would be to find places where pedophiles who have yet to attack children can find some sort of councilling (or maybe some sort of drug or something) to help curb their urges.
Don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t excuse the sick bastards that will attach a children (I don’t care how little support you have or how strong the urges are, it is still wrong, wrong wrong), but sometimes an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure….
MedicineNet.com
Homosexual: A person sexually attracted to persons of the same sex. Homosexuals include males (gays) and females (lesbians).
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3781
Merriam-Webster
1 : of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward individuals of one’s own sex
http://tinyurl.com/2rokea
There’s no other qualification.
“I think people who find themselves sexually attracted to children will be drawn towards a celibate life as a way of avoiding coming to terms with their sexual disorder.”
Interesting theory. Do we see the same levels of illicit attraction to both boys and girls proportional to the desires of the general population? You’d think a person could remain celibate without the trouble of having to become a Catholic priest. I wonder if Orthodox Catholic priests, who are expected to be married, have the same degree of pedophilia? Like-wise other celibate groups such as monastic orders of Hindus and Buddhists, society’s virgins, unmarried Muslims, celibate gays, etc.?
Now that the word is out and focus is on priests, I wonder if the twisted bastards will dissipate into the general population? You’d think that it would be easier and likely for those types to become day care workers, community workers or kindergarten, etc. teachers.
RBG