Now show us all a thread of members of some other denomination proclaiming proudly that their clergy concealing knowledge of ongoing wrongdoing from the authorities is a good thing.
As several Roman Catholics do on this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3227423/posts
OUCH, that stung /sarc. The point of my posting is that abuse is across every religious group.
To address your “Red Herring” question. Talk about concealing wrongdoing and not “Facing the Music”. I am still waiting for the flood of sinners, who answer the alter calls that I see each week on TV, turning themselves over to the police for the murders, thefts, etc., that they have committed, and have just “confessed directly” to God at the alter call.
I have never heard a pastor tell the people, that once they make the alter call that they will then need to turn themselves over to the police, for abusing their child, robbing the bank, or murdering a person. Hmmmm...I wonder why pastors do not add that information before the alter call?