Ummm...

Saw this on CNN about 20 minutes ago, speaks for itself.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.

Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.

"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years," he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. "The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."

Yeeeaahhhhh, the article goes on from there, and I'm noticing a pattern. There are never any atheistic or agnostic child molesters. They always seem to be priests, Cub Scout leaders, (who are not allowed to be non-religious) or leaders of wacko sects. Even when pedophiles turn out to be average Jon Does their first line of defense is that they are good, church-going Christians. So is there something about believing in God that makes people find 13 year-old boys smokin' hot?

I don't have an answer to that question, I'm merely releasing it into the ether.