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Comment Re:The pedophile priest problem (Score 1) 284

How is requiring Celibacy promoting pedophilia?

Humans have sexual urges, it is not realistic to expect them to be celibate. Deprive humans of sex and put them in control of a ton of people who look up to them as the hand of god, a situation very much deliberately created by the catholic church, and you will have abuse in a significant percentage of cases. It's particularly telling that the Greek Orthodox church is not having these problems; they're basically Catholics with marriage for priests and without a pope.

This is dumb on so many levels -- 1) rate of pedophilia (actually it's not pedophilia since most victims were teenagers, but that's a nit) in the Catholic priesthood is not been shown to be higher than in other populations like teachers and Protestant ministers. 2) Orthodox (not just Greek) have their set of problems no less than Catholics. They don't get the press because a) there are so few of them in the US and b) they don't have the (comparatively) deep pockets the Catholic Church does so suing them isn't very productive. Yes, all healthy people have sexual urges, but most of us don't act on them inappropriately, priests included.

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Comment Re:A fresh start (Score 1) 859

"Freedom of speech, in the United States at least, is not given to citizens so that they can harm other people's reputations or hold them accountable for their actions" Actually, in the US, freedom of speech is not "given" to us by the government (cf. Declaration of Independence). We believe the right to freedom of speech comes from our Creator, not the government. Major difference between the US and most European states.

Comment Re:Algol 60 (Score 2, Informative) 321

Algol 60/58 or Fortran 66 are not "software version numbers". They are specifications that individual compilers complied with (to varying degrees). Each of those compilers had their own version numbers that were revised from time to time though the compilers were still a "Fortran 66" compiler. Naming by year definitely predates Win95; I seem to recall there was a Clipper release called "Summer of xx" (sorry don't recall the year).

Comment Re:Mike Murray is LDS (mormon) (Score 1) 1475

In my opinion, churches that take stances on political issues like that should lose their tax-exempt status, as the clause under which they are tax exempt clearly prohibits political activism.

There's nothing wrong with churches being tax exempt and being political. The restrictions are against PARTISAN politics. There's a really, really big difference. Your opinion would seem to be that churches have no right to participate in public discussions at all.

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