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Thanks for your frankness. It seems like frankness, anyway! LOL Nob help you if it’s not true!

I do think that sincere confession, properly and considerately directed, will repair a lot of damage, both psychic and even physical - since repressed memories, inconvenient and sometimes inexplicable desires or fantasies, etc, will quite often lead to physical illness (what besides eating spicy food late in the evening causes ulcers...?) and even injury from accidents and explosions of temper.

I can even see the logic behind a responsible cleric berating (from his pulpit on a day of worship) someone he knew was flaunting Nob’s law - if the person showed no signs of wanting to correct. Who wants a scummy liar in the congregation, who moreover might leave viruses in the church bathroom at some point? Out the b4$tard!

That’s why confession is often the better route, because there is such a thing as a responsible cleric left in this world. They are growing few and far between, but they exist.

I feel bad that you were abused by a cleric and then caused pain to your family because you were having a hard time admitting to yourself what happened and dealing with it. It sounds like you lucked out telling your wife and kid. (Haha, that’s why I always do bad things in front of everyone! Because I’d rather face angry rejection than embarrassment!)

Regarding others saying that you’re now “gay” - I wonder if we shouldn’t try to rethink creating a category of behavior peculiar (in this age, anyway) to those males and females who have been sexually abused in youth. Who are seldom gay, but most often seem quite unhappy.

Jesus: *frowning* Please take off the William Buckley mask.
Me: I can’t! It’s stuck!
JC: Very funny.