Dancing Boys

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Dancing Boys

“Priests don’t like to say raped--they prefer misdeed, 

inappropriate touching, or a mistake. That is insulting.

I am not a mistake.”--Charles L. Bailey, Jr.

from THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS.

What does Michael Jackson

& Wal-Mart have in common? Little

boys underwear half off.

I saw a haunting piece on CNN this morning, all about how the

American military has to turn a blind eye to the Afghan generals,

politicians, & religious leaders who all have sex slave young boy

companions. One prominent general said, “It is the way of things.

 I could not compete with the others if I did not have a boy”. I must

submit that sometimes for Westerners, the heart makes the 

simplest things so damn complicated--how the reality of things

allows Afghan leaders to go all Kite Runner & shit & we are expected

to respond like a muzzled declawed grizzly or a lioness with 

belladonna in her eyes; so that bold child rape can be excused as

some kind of acceptable Muslim socialization, that we must not tamper

with the sick, perverted Afghan customs for fear that we might disrupt

our fragile relationships with the men in power? For Christ’s sake, two

American sergeants were booted out of the Army for assaulting an

Afghan officer who was bragging about having sex with his boy. Have we

all gone insane?

Personally, the sordid fact that there are Catholic cardinals & bishops

who keep harems of alter boys dampens my enthusiasm for the

lauded arrival of Pope Francis at the White House today. Can you

image Obama in the Lincoln Room saying, “Welcome to America,

Frankie. Tell me though, what are your views on pedophile priests--

did you ever bugger young boys on your way up?”  It throws a

sickening shade like shadow dancers, that nauseating image of

young Afghan boys shaking their pre-adolescent butts for those

old men, who in my book are hardly a cut above those who practice

bestiality with farm animals, chickens, & dogs.

When I look at my beautiful grandchildren & think about all those

child pornographers & twisted demented predators who want to have

sex with them, who tweet & text to our children, I cum every time I

look at those craved images of you”, I get a little crazy, wanting to

shoot eggs with guns, or personally perform the rites of castration

that will swell the ranks of eunuchs. I don’t care that this moral stigma 

has been with mankind throughout recorded history, damn it, we need

stand our ground on this issue--even though our intervention

will do about as much good as it does to complain of the

Muslim treatment of women.

The rape of young boys

is unacceptable, within the church

or any other society.

Glenn Buttkus

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