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To: Dr. Eckleburg
If your own lying eyes don't tell you the truth, then believe the true statistics that say sexual abuse among Catholic priests is at least four times higher that in Protestant churches.

Wrong again.

From fox news: (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286153,00.html)

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. It’s not.

1,023 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:00 PM PST by Hacksaw (I support the tiger.)
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To: Hacksaw; Alex Murphy
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.

This has been your side's only defense and it's been dismantled.

RCC numbers include primarly priests.

Protestant numbers include, as you said yourself, "clergy, staff, or other church-related relationships" which we've seen when we read the actual article includes janitors, church workers, and members of the congregation.

So your comparison is ridiculous. But it is all you've got.

1,025 posted on 02/01/2008 11:33:58 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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