So Who Isn't Apologizing for Pedos Today?

[Lemur]

Just a weird thing I noticed today, seems like everybody's excusing or explaining away pedophiles. First there's filmmaker Roman Polanski, who raped a 13-year-old girl. Guess who's name is at the top of his apologists? Woody Allen. Oh, the jokes just write themselves.

Today, Martin Scorsese and David Lynch also added their names to those of sixty-odd other cinematic luminaries who've signed a petition calling for Polanski's immediate release. But the award for complete lack of self-awareness has to go to another new signee who placed his moral capital in such matters on the table today as well: Woody Allen.

I mean, it's not like he was tipping his step-daughter, right? C'mon, folks, let's have some understanding here!

Staying with the Roman theme, The Holy Catholic Church has issued a statement about pedophile priests that amounts to (a) Everybody does it, and (b) Is it really pedophilia if you're doin' a teen?

The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that "available research" showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.

He also quoted statistics from the Christian Scientist Monitor newspaper to show that most US churches being hit by child sex abuse allegations were Protestant and that sexual abuse within Jewish communities was common. [...]

The statement said that rather than paedophilia, it would "be more correct" to speak of ephebophilia, a homosexual attraction to adolescent males.

"Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17."

So if only one in twenty priests may be a pedo, and if they're doing it with boys as old as eleven, what's the big whup? Why can't everybody take a chill pill?

Did I miss anybody? Were there any other pedo apologists in the news today?