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Cardinal Peter Turkson: because only gay priest rape children

WILL Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson be the next Pope? He’s black. He’s African. He’s 64. The Ghanaian is President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that priests would not rape children under his watchful gaze because there are no gays in his Church:

“African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency. Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind, are not countenanced in our society. So that cultural taboo, that tradition has been there. It has served to keep it out.”

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Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)