Hey man, you gotta give me time to wake up, right?
I only post "dirty priest" stories when one or another of FR's resident Catholics figures that they'll get their jollies off of posting some stories about Protestant clergy. I just want to remind everybody where the stereotypes about Catholic priests came from. And I've got a list of 40-50 stories from within the past month that can go up, if need be.
However, if the Catholics didn't post theirs, I wouldn't post mine.
I covered elsewhere that the belief that there is a much greater problem with clergy abuse among the Catholic clergy than among other groups is not simply perception, but actually appears to be statistically supported.
TO TQC: I read your post but your claims that the scandals are SIX TIMES greater on the Catholic side seems dubious at best. You have a lot of assumptions in your calculations.
TO COLEUS: How is it that Catholics or Christians in general profit from your continual, ill concieved attempts to prove Proddy clergy are naughtier than Catholic?
In all honesty I think both of you need to grow up a bit. The “he started it” defense hardly seems mature or productive. Have either of you stepped back and contemplated how this stuff looks to the casual browser/lurker at FR? Seeing post after post of “Priest molests boy”, “Pastor molests girl”, “Reverend molests sheep”, “Vicar molests self”?