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To: marshmallow; padre35
Four...... out of how many total posts? I mean just this year. And two of those you've linked to have nothing to do with Protestant clerical sexual abuse....So it's two posts out of how many? Work that out as a percentage. It will be less than 1%. If you survey a longer time period it will probably be less than 0.1%.

Oh, I see - when you said If you think I'm on a quest, I challenge you to post a link to any previous stories I've posted of Protestant hanky panky, you didn't mean to end the sentence with a period, you didn't mean "sexual behavior", and you didn't mean "any" - you actually meant "sexual abuse" and "just this year". So what about those four threads that you posted earlier this summer? I guess you didn't mean "any this year" either. You meant "a meaningful percentage out of this year". Gotcha.

If you wanted to play "Three Card Monty", you could have said so.

53 posted on 09/23/2010 9:37:02 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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To: Alex Murphy; padre35
Oh, I see - when you said If you think I'm on a quest, I challenge you to post a link to any previous stories I've posted of Protestant hanky panky, you didn't mean to end the sentence with a period, you didn't mean "sexual behavior", and you didn't mean "any" - you actually meant "sexual abuse" and "just this year". So what about those four threads that you posted earlier this summer? I guess you didn't mean "any this year" either. You meant "a meaningful percentage out of this year". Gotcha. If you wanted to play "Three Card Monty", you could have said so.

I figured the math would upset the apple cart.

The story is about alleged sexual impropriety by a Protestant pastor. Here's what I was accused of:

"Marshmellow, and several other Catholic FReepers are on a quest to somehow rehab the Catholic Churches handling of their own priest sex scandal via posting whatever accusations they can find of a Protestant Clergyman engaging in the same behavior."

The words used by my accuser were " priest sex scandal". Quote/unquote. Did you get that? He set the terms of reference, not me. Thus when I wrote " If you think I'm on a quest, I challenge you to post a link to any previous stories I've posted of Protestant hanky panky", I was referring to precisely this; Protestant clerical sex scandals. Of which you've found two instances, not four.

So out of the hundreds of articles I've posted this year, two pertain to this issue. If you search over a longer time period, I'll bet the number of articles I've posted on this subject as a fraction of the total articles I've posted is even lower.

I could take any one day at random and find more articles posted by you on the subject of Catholic sex abuse than I've posted on Protestant sex abuse in an entire year. I was actually surprised you didn't post this news, Alex. Did you miss it??

55 posted on 09/23/2010 10:05:25 PM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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