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"If the country is serious about [sexual abuse of children] as a national issue, we have to direct our resources to where the problem is worse," Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, an New York-based Catholic advocacy group, told the Register. "But instead what we get is a selective indignation that suggests there is an agenda here."

Donhue is attempting to deflect the problem in the Catholic system rather than address it. While the problem of sexual abuse against children is abhorant no matter where it takes place, it is especially heinous when it occurs under the care of the church. For not only are the children violated, but fundamentals of the moral authority and the safety of those who put their trust in the church as a sanctuary of God are undermined. Also remember, for all the claims that our schools are falling apart because of the removal of prayer, the Bible and the ten commandments, these acts happened in places where all three are mainstays.

If I am not mistaken, and I cannot find actual proof, orginally when the sexual abuse stories were coming forward more and more often, Donohue was almost claiming that such did not exist and those who were moving these stories were on a witch hunt for against the church.

Providing cover is as much something of hate as the actual act itself.

People like Donohue and his peers in other faiths should put plug in it when thier faiths are proven to be doing misdeeds. They should be the first people to own up and move for quick reform instead of trying to misguide guilt and blame.