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To: Alex Murphy

Anecdotally, I suggest that such statatistics are meaningless, because they ignore the practrice in the protestant denominations is not to report offenders but to get them out of town. However, the abuse I have onserved in these denominations tends to be heterosexul. I agree that the whole scandal is owing to ther trap that the Church feel into in the 1970s when it lowered its standards to admission to the priesthood generally and the “gays” flocked in, warnly welcomed by the gay priests already there, who had a field day while orthodox priests were demoralized by the shattering of the traditional image of their vocation.


40 posted on 07/18/2007 10:41:05 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan
get them out of town

Not so. The independent denominations would immediately fire them. In all but a few (Episcopal, United CoC) they would be immediately removed from the pulpit, probably never to return.

There are some very large, very wealthy denominations out there. If there were practices of hiding homosexual abusers in the ministry, you can bet your bottom dollar that trial lawyers would have been after those millions.

They have not been able to do so. That gives us some indication of the difference in how these homosexual pedophiles are either aided or abetted in other denominations. I could be wrong, but is the complicity of these bishops that has made the RCC vulnerable, not individual acts by individual priests. The RCC's exposure wouldn't have been anywhere close to this level if it had been individuals who were not then secretly harbored and repositioned by the bishops.

53 posted on 07/19/2007 2:21:37 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: RobbyS
Remember too that in the 60s and 70s -- the high water point of the abuse incidents -- priest (and nuns) were leaving by the dozen (or by the hundred) to get married. It was so marked a phenomenon that it even showed up in a sit-com (the show Dick van Dyke had after the one with Mary Tyler Moore) -- a nun and a priest running away together to get married. These were the stories that made the papers in those days -- and the several "support groups" for women romantically involved with priests who weren't leaving! It was a general breakdown.
56 posted on 07/19/2007 3:04:16 AM PDT by maryz
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