Posted on 03/25/2013 4:36:18 PM PDT by Starman417
I really don’t care if one is worse than the other.
I spent twelve years in public school. I never had any one of my peers get diddled by a teacher—at least that I know of.
I have four, yes four, peers that I know personally, who have been diddled by priests.
I also have first hand knowledge of the crap our Bishop did in diddling young boys, and covering up the mis-deeds of not one, not two, but three of MY own parish priests over twenty years.
And not one of them is in jail because of the cover ups and obfuscations of the Princes of my church.
There is no excuse for what these men did. There is no amount of media outrage that is too much.
They are evil incarnate.
My experience with ministers’ issues have been with adultery. The few cases I have seen in our area were not predatory, and in fact, were consensual.
The ministers got the boot. No crime was committed.
Like the priests such men bear more than a little responsibility in their offices and claims of representing Christ.
The ministers in my experience suffered public humiliation, and banishment from their “flock.” What they did was immoral but not illegal.
They paid a higher price than did any of the priests in the little cabal that ruled Western MA.
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