“I would have liked to see such public recognition a few years ago.”
Don’t blame other Protestants, as you have found me out. I am “the problem” and it’s all my fault. Please accept my sincerest apologies.
As a convert from the Piskies to the Catholics, I can assure you that plenty of people on FR have blamed Catholic theology or discipline for the homosexual priests molesting the adolescent boys. This has not been confined to threads dealing with some aspect of the fallout from that situation. Pretty frequently, when there's any kind of thread about the Catholic Church, some drive-by snarker chimes in with, "Yeah, child molesters. Wouldn't happen if they allowed priests to marry." and unloads all his or her hostility to the Church onto the thread.
That routine has just gotten as old and tired as "hughly series" or "Bush's fault!", so when this thread came up a rejoinder of "Sez you!" seemed pretty natural to most of us.
You were just unfortunately standing in the line of fire at the time. If you weren't one of the aforesaid snarkers in the past (nobody is keeping a list), please accept my profound apologies on behalf of my annoyed brethren.