GenX
08-09-2007, 10:35 AM
"The mainstream media has all but ignored the recent Associated Press report that the three major insurance companies for Protestant Churches in America say they typically receive 260 reports each year of minors being sexually abused by Protestant clergy, staff, or other church-related relationships.
In light of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church beginning five years ago, religious and victims’ rights organizations have been seeking this type of data for years. It has been hard to come by since Protestant Churches are more de-centralized than the Catholic Church.
Responding to heavy media scrutiny, the Catholic Church has reported that since 1950, 13,000 “credible accusations” have been brought against Catholic clerics (about 228 per year.) The fact that this number includes all credible accusations, not just those that have involved insurance companies, and still is less than the number of cases in Protestant churches reported by just three insurance companies, should be making front page of The New York Times and the network evening news"
LINK (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286153,00.html)
Looks like sexual abuse knows no boundaries. A sexual deviant is a sexual deviant. Catholic, Baptists, Pentecostal, Mormon...it doesn't matter; deviancy is deviancy.
What a shame some people want to use this tragedy simply for denominational gain.
What an even bigger tragedy some of those very same people are ministers of a church. Such people come off more like vacuum cleaner salespeople looking to 'one-up' the competition than 'men of God'.
In light of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church beginning five years ago, religious and victims’ rights organizations have been seeking this type of data for years. It has been hard to come by since Protestant Churches are more de-centralized than the Catholic Church.
Responding to heavy media scrutiny, the Catholic Church has reported that since 1950, 13,000 “credible accusations” have been brought against Catholic clerics (about 228 per year.) The fact that this number includes all credible accusations, not just those that have involved insurance companies, and still is less than the number of cases in Protestant churches reported by just three insurance companies, should be making front page of The New York Times and the network evening news"
LINK (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286153,00.html)
Looks like sexual abuse knows no boundaries. A sexual deviant is a sexual deviant. Catholic, Baptists, Pentecostal, Mormon...it doesn't matter; deviancy is deviancy.
What a shame some people want to use this tragedy simply for denominational gain.
What an even bigger tragedy some of those very same people are ministers of a church. Such people come off more like vacuum cleaner salespeople looking to 'one-up' the competition than 'men of God'.