Trump supporter in the rightwing media says Epstein wasn’t a pedo. 15 year olds are “barely legal”. That’s a relief to conservatives, eh? Now they can feel better about their president’s penchant for young teens girls.
Kelly continued: “This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. And I realize this is disgusting. I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts, that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/megyn-kelly-epstein-pedophilia-russell-brand/
And this comes as a HUGE relief for Catholics. Now they can claim their priests weren’t pedophiles, they were just gay.
I’m not entirely sure how this justifies the child exploitation though. Maybe a Catholic here can shed some light on it?
Why does this matter to the Catholic League?
For too long, the media and the chattering class have said that the Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal was due to “pedophile priests.” Wrong. The data clearly show that the vast majority of priestly victims were male (81 percent) and that 78 percent were postpubescent. Why is this important? Because it means the molesters were homosexuals. When males have sex with males who are postpubsecent, that’s called homosexuality, not pedophilia.
https://www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-is-right-about-epstein/