You've known a couple of people, and your experience falls vicitm to the same problem as so many of those studies .. small sample size. And my experience has been different, encountering just what the USC study that is so critical of the other studies found in the data of those very studies, a higher incidence of sexual promiscuity and experimentation and depression.
And as always, this is where we end up. I challenge you to substantiate your position and you call me names. You claim the banner of charity, but you give geckowwjd a run for the least charitable Catholic I have ever interacted with.
laim the banner of charity, but you give geckowwjd a run for the least charitable Catholic I have ever interacted with.
I'll take that as a back-handed compliment, because, from my point of view, you're probably putting me into a group who are simply too bright and assertive to sit back and accept the mindless and cruel-minded pontifications dished out by your ilk. We WILL speak up for all those poor folk who are being demonized and excluded by your power-hungry ecclesiastical establishment, whose historical record is so God-awful!
Re: In Your Defensiveness, You're Becoming a Proponent of OBVIOUSLY "Un-Christian" Cruelty!
Date: 2006-03-13 12:33 am (UTC)And as always, this is where we end up. I challenge you to substantiate your position and you call me names. You claim the banner of charity, but you give
Re: In Your Defensiveness, You're Becoming a Proponent of OBVIOUSLY "Un-Christian" Cruelty!
Date: 2006-03-13 03:08 pm (UTC)I'll take that as a back-handed compliment, because, from my point of view, you're probably putting me into a group who are simply too bright and assertive to sit back and accept the mindless and cruel-minded pontifications dished out by your ilk. We WILL speak up for all those poor folk who are being demonized and excluded by your power-hungry ecclesiastical establishment, whose historical record is so God-awful!