Catholics, Gays and Pederasts
There has been much excitement in the last week or so about some high-up in dear old Mother Church claiming that gays had a tendency towards paedophilia (not to be confused with haemophilia, which incidentally does not mean being aroused by the sight of blood, or Philadelphia, whose founding ethos did not centre on brothers touching each other
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But our not knowing these things is what leaves people free to make aribtrary declarations, and other poeple to get angry but unable to support their counterarguments. Science may, however, be able to work out what patterns, if any, do occurr. And Knowing is Half the Battle!
It seems I don't know crap about this either. The reason I started thinking about it the day before yesterday was that I was in Castle Park over lunchtime on Friday, and I saw a bunch of unaccompanied about ten-year-old boys trying to do parkour-moves (mainly rolls) and discussing breakfalls. So I demonstrated some rolls and breakfalls for them and how to do it properly. When I got back to work I proudly told my colleagues I had been teaching small children to do rolls and breakfalls, they all immediately reacted with serious concern and asked whether their parents were around, whether I had been seen, and warned me that I would have to be careful about such things in this day and age, and the rest of the afternoon was interspersed with paedophilia jokes. This was utterly depressing. I knew I had no interest whatesover in touching up ten year olds, and the thought that someone might suspect me of such was horrifying and enraging. I spent the rest of the day pondering the subject, and have decided it is in sore need of the tender ministrations of science's scalpel.
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