Yes, the Huckabee quote is fake. I fell for that because Huckabee has publicly defended Duggar. But the Walsh quotes are legit. You can hear the latter one, straight from the horse's a** - er - mouth.
You "fell" for it because you try too hard to deflect and jump on any anti-conservative point of view that's out there. And also, because you are a leftist and it's what you read, follow, and receive on your internet feed. Since it was "our" daily reminder, and I proved it to be false, stop with the daily reminders. Your credibility is ish.
And it does, indeed, show that he is not concerned with protecting children. He can't claim that it is OK to marry and start a family at the age of 16, when it comes to young girls, and then turn around and pretend he is concerned about protecting children when it comes to adolescents deciding they are trans or gay.
And he can't claim he is concerned about protecting children when he downplays priest sexual abuse because it "usually" involves post-pubescent teens -- aka minors.
Nonsense. He did not advocate for marrying at 16. All your posts are not in context. You have to do more than simply read or listen to a short clip from leftist liars. That audio clip is 12 years old BTW. What does Walsh say about it now?
And, he did NOT downplay the sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests and the ensuing cover up by the Church itself. He framed the issue based on facts, which are....
100% of Catholic priests are male.
80% of the victims were male.
The majority of victims were over the age of 13 which is the far end of pubescense for boys.
Pedophilia involves the sexual abuse of pre-pubescent children and isn't distinguished by the gender of the victims.
Further information....."According to Father James Bretzke, a professor of moral theology at Boston College, "
"It's an empirical fact that lots of men are gay who are priests. I would also observe that the numbers of gay men and women in the church ministry is probably larger than the general population."
In the 2000 book "
The Changing Face of the Priesthood," Rev. Donald B. Cozzens suggested that the priesthood was increasingly becoming a gay profession. Cozzens estimated that as much as 58 percent of priests were gay, and that percentages were even higher for younger priests. His numbers matched
previous estimates by sociologists who put the numbers of gay priests between 10 and 60 percent.
Father Gary Meier, a gay, St. Louis-based Catholic clergymen, says there's a wide range of statistics out there on gay priests, but jokes that in his experience, "30 percent are gay, 30 percent are straight, and 30 percent are in denial."
The over-riding issue with the Catholic priest sexual abuse is that gay priests were seeking sexual satisfaction from minor males.....and males in general. Cardinal McCarrick slept with seminarians and the leadership knew it. But what are they going to do? Pull back the covers and expose their own sexuality? Lol. Good one.