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Like no Dems in post #4, I too have noticed this seemingly unending series of posts by you reporting on Protestant ministers committing sexual sins and crimes. Strangely, you never report on Catholic priests doing the same, as alluded to by VeniVidiVici in post #14; I looked back through many months of your posts to confirm that.

Why this imbalance? What is your point? This series of yours is now so onesided that we can only conclude that surely you have an agenda, some axe to grind, though only on one side. It's time to divulge it, rather than leaving us to speculate.

My interest is simply in busting the illusion of Protestantism being a religion somehow connected to the Holy Scripture. It is not: it is a theological fantasy invented by failed monks and liars in 16c.

The purpose of the FreeRepublic is broader: it is to correct the mainstream media anti-conservative bias. One aspect of this bias is the uncessant reporting on the sexual abuse by Catholic priests, when the truth is that Protestant ministers are statistically abusers at the same rate, and public school teachers — the worst.

That is all there is to it.

Priest Abuse Fliers
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/09_10/2007_09_02_Stephens_PriestAbuse.htm
By LaTonya Stephens
Tri-State Homepage
September 2, 2007

http://tristatehomepage.com/content/fulltext/?cid=2567
Victims of abuse are asking other victims to step out of the shadows and the Evansville diocese to acknowledge their responsibilities.
The Silent Lambs organization and Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests say recent revelations of molestation by a local priest is another example of the church's failure to protect the innocent.
They showed up Sunday at Saint Benedict's Cathedral handing out fliers encouraging members to support abuse victims and to push the catholic church to be honest about abusive priests.
David Clohessy says Bishop Ferald Gettelfinger's recent disclosure of abuse by now deceased Monsignor Othmar Schroeder prompted the action.
Clohessy says for 11 years Bishop Gettelfinger has known that Schroeder is a predator and yet kept silent.
He also says Gettelfinger admitted that there are others whose names he has not disclosed.

Those wanting to learn more about the SNAP victim's group can log onto www.snapnetwork.org.

Like no Dems in post #4, I too have noticed this seemingly unending series of posts by you reporting on Protestant ministers committing sexual sins and crimes. Strangely, you never report on Catholic priests doing the same, as alluded to by VeniVidiVici in post #14; I looked back through many months of your posts to confirm that. Why this imbalance? What is your point? This series of yours is now so onesided that we can only conclude that surely you have an agenda, some axe to grind, though only on one side. It's time to divulge it, rather than leaving us to speculate.

If I may, I think the purpose is to provide a counterpoint to the slew of articles posted by people such as Alex Murphy which reported on sexually related crimes commited by Catholics. The posts by Coleus show that the issue is hardly a Catholic issue, as some have tried to imply.

And all of a sudden these articles are not quite so funny anymore.