I agree with you 100%. Those who bend over backwards to defend and excuse that which shouldn’t be defended to protect the church in the end do the institution more harm.
Care to name some names?
I see nobody here "defending" or "excusing" anything. But it would be nice to have the truth -- the whole truth -- told, and the media hasn't been doing that in the latest round of cases. It's not "defending" or "excusing" the inexcusable to insist that innocent people not be railroaded or slandered.
This latest round of attacks is nothing more than an attempt to smear the man who has done more than any other single individual to clean up the problem. Why? Politics, and the desire to sell papers.