(A)t least ten teenage boys were castrated in the 1950s by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church as a "treatment" for homosexuality, the Telegraph reports.
Dutch journalist Joep Dohmen, reporting for the NRC Handelsblad uncovered ten cases of the castrations, one of which was suffered by Henk Heithuis, who was castrated as a minor for reporting to police sexual abuse by a priest that he endured while in the boarding home.
Although the priests were convicted of the abuses, Heithuis was still transported to a Catholic hospital, and underwent a surgical castration as a treatment for homosexuality and, according to the report, a punishment for tattling on the clergy
Turd is remarkably silent given a thread about boy genitalia.
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
Go on Turd, explain to us why this is all part of God's infallible Roman church.
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
Fat Cat wrote:Go on Turd, explain to us why this is all part of God's infallible Roman church.
St. John Chrysostom wrote:The road to Hell is paved with the bones of erring priests and monks, and the skulls of their bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.
Sinners exist in every church, even The Church.
"Liberalism is arbitrarily selective in its choice of whose dignity to champion." Adrian Vermeule
Read the story. The guy in question, according to court papers, requested his own castration, as did Alan Turing in the same era. The pedo priests who abused him were swiftly convicted. The 50's were a strange time. Not the Church's fault. Unless anyone has evidence to the contrary.....
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