Dadeus Grings – crazy name, crazy guy – is a conservative Catholic Archbishop in Brazil. During a Bishops’ conference, he explained that:
“Society today is paedophile, that is the problem. So, people easily fall into it.”
And why is it paedophile? Let me guess..
“When sexuality is trivialized, it’s clear that this is going to affect all cases. Homosexuality is such a case. Before, the homosexual wasn’t spoken of. He was discriminated against.
“When we begin to say they have rights, rights to demonstrate publicly, pretty soon, we’ll find the rights of paedophiles,” he said.
In what might have been more of a personal confession than intended, he explained how this comes about:
“We know that the adolescent is spontaneously homosexual. Boys play with boys, girls play with girls,” he said. “If there is no proper guidance, this sticks.”
While he condemned the paedophile priest scandals, he maintained it was right for church authorities not to have contacted the police:
… he said internal punishment of priests guilty of abuse was sufficient and that police should not be involved.
“For the church to go and accuse its own sons would be a little strange,” he said.
Oh, and he’s a holocaust denier (the only proper context for the use of the word “denier”):
In 2003, he argued that only 1 million Jews died in the Holocaust, though a few years later he recanted. Experts say 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
Last year, he outraged Jewish groups in Brazil by telling a magazine that “more Catholics than Jews died in the Holocaust, but this isn’t known because the Jews control the world’s media.”
Including as you’ll have guessed, this blog.
