N.Y. Man Gets 50 Years in Daughter's Rape

AIM News ^ | 6-16-2004 | By WILLIAM KATES

[sonserae]

Sorry, it was 80% rather than 85%. I read the book a few years ago....by the way, it's excellent and I highly recommend it...

"According to the Child Sexual Abuse Network, 80 percent of all molestation happens within religious homes. Why there? Because the perpetrators of this abuse cannot come out in their churches as say, "I need help," The people struggling in the vise grip of sexual compulsivity know they won't be embraced and patiently dealt with inside appropriate boundaries. So they stay hidden, anxiety-ridden and feeling like an alien in their own church and in their own bodies. Most will end up acting out their need for love and affection in totally inappropriate ways."

Quoted from the Book, "More Jesus Less Religion", Author Stephen Arterburn, page 94

[tsomer]

"Wow. You are clueless. This happens all the time,.."

I must be. I don't read those magazines in the check-out lanes.

[Politicalmom]

Pathetic attempt at a put down.

I read those stories here on Free Republic.

You just continue to delude yourself.

[tsomer]

Pathetic attempt at a put down.

OH! OUCH! I mean, like, ouch.
ouch ouch ouch...
(did I say ouch?) I've been STRUCK THROUGH THE HEART!

I retire.
In shame.
I only wish to spend my final moments with my loyal, smelly hounds. They do not see my humiliation.

[WorkingClassFilth]

You know, I don't doubt that this kind of problem exists in religious circles, but I would highly doubt that religion is the nexus of child molestation. I'd just be guessing, but it wouldn't suprise me that the religious affiliation was incidental but used to narrow the focus and cast blame on religious people.

As a barometer, how does one square that with the findings TIME magazine published a few years ago that found the greatest sexual happiness was found in religious marriages? Further, it is known that the majority of gays have been victims of molestation. In turn, molesters tend to molest.

Putting it all together, is seems to me that statistics are saying that the greatest happiness one could find is to be a religious gay in a heterosexual marriage while molesting children on the side...

[sonserae]

I must tell you that in my experience, the people that I've known that have been molested, did come from very religious homes. One of my friends uncle's who molested him was an elder in the church. His father who was a deacon used to masterb*** in front of him. Most came from Southern Bible belt backgrounds where it is common to put on a face at church that you have a perfect family and "everything is fine"....you never discuss problems or difficulties or "anything unpleasant"....it leads to people having double lives because there is no healthy outlet for them to talk about their feelings.