[MamaB]

You mean like Catholic priests who molest children, nothing is done about it and they are sent to a different place to repeat their actions?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Statistically, Protestants are the same.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2007/06/18/80877.htm

[af_vet_1981]

You mean like Catholic priests who molest children, nothing is done about it and they are sent to a different place to repeat their actions?

Catholics or Protestants who commit sexual immorality are not saved, whether a priest or someone like Bill Gothard, Jim Bakker, or Jimmy Swaggart.

But a couple of years ago, in 2011, a story came out on 20/20 that for many people within that broad Bob Jones community made them really think about how the school was responding to allegations of rape or sexual abuse. And it was a story actually that didn't take place at Bob Jones University but instead at a church up in New Hampshire. There, about 15 years before, a teenage girl had been raped and impregnated by a deacon in her church. And when she became pregnant and her mother took her to the pastor, rather than help the family go to report this to the police or take some sort of other action, this young woman, this teenage girl, was made to stand before her congregation while her pastor read a confession. And then she was sent out of state away from her family. So when this came out years later...

MARTIN: Well, it's not just that, but you also reported that the rapist, who was a registered sex offender, was also made to confess, but to adultery, and not rape. And he remained at the church. He was able to stay.

JOYCE: And he remained at the church while she was sent away. Absolutely. And when this came out 15 years later, people were looking at this. And they were looking at the pastor involved in this - the pastor who made the decision of how to handle this. And it turns out he was a Bob Jones graduate, for starters, but not just that. He also served on the Board of Trustees for the school as well as two other affiliated Bob Jones boards. So here was a man who was, you know, very much enmeshed in the leadership of the school, and this is how he had chosen to deal with the rape of a minor girl - by seeming to punish the girl and allow the man who raped her to go unpunished.

Evangelical Protestants have to deal with the Song of Solomon in the context of the Mark Driscoll/ Mars Hill controversy.

2. Sexual licentiousness

Driscoll has frequently said that his favourite book of the Bible is Song of Solomon, and this gives him an opportunity to talk about sex in the most sensuous and irreverent way. His latest book, Real Marriage (2012), deals with self-stimulation, the use of sex toys and forms of cybersex. The most provocative of all involves sodomy within marriage. [Challies blog]

http://www.challies.com/book-reviews/the-driscolls-and-real-marriage

[LurkingSince'98]

You are speculating about priestly abuse that peaked in the 1960s.

Here are some links so you can drill down to know rather than speculate:

http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/PriestAbuseScandal.htm

http://www.usccb.org/search.cfm?q=John+Jay+College+of+Criminal+Justice+with+Full+Report

http://www.usccb.org/about/child-and-youth-protection/

By the way for the last 10 years our entire Diocese does criminal background checks for every priest and layperson with any possible contact with children.

Criminal Background Check for Everyone in any possible contact with children.

Does your church do that?

Can you bet the livelihood of your entire church that it cant happen?

AMDG