{"id":2091,"date":"2010-03-19T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:14:49","slug":"priests-and-child-abuse-not-a-lack-of-freedom-but-an-excess-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/03\/19\/priests-and-child-abuse-not-a-lack-of-freedom-but-an-excess-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests and child abuse: not a lack of freedom but an excess of power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard on the BBC: the reason why so many priests abused so many children isn&#8217;t that priests aren&#8217;t allowed to marry it&#8217;s that priests have too much power.<\/p>\n<p>(In retrospect, the alleged link between celibacy and pedophilia is a nice piece of prejudice. &#8220;If only priests could live as normal heterosexuals they wouldn&#8217;t exploit children.&#8221; Because married heterosexuals never abuse positions of power.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard on the BBC: the reason why so many priests abused so many children isn&#8217;t that priests aren&#8217;t allowed to marry it&#8217;s that priests have too much power. (In retrospect, the alleged link between celibacy and pedophilia is a nice piece of prejudice. &#8220;If only priests could live as normal heterosexuals they wouldn&#8217;t exploit children.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}