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To: Dr. Eckleburg; siunevada; A.A. Cunningham
Jenkins asks us to consider why there is no such term as "pastor pedophilia"?  It is not for lack of pastors involved in sexual abuse, rather it has much to do with the way the issue of pedophilia has been "framed" by our social constructionists.  For example, who ever heard of Tony Leyva?

In the 1980s, Leyva had abused perhaps one hundred boys in several southern states, but few of us ever learned of it. Leyva had the distinction of being a Pentecostal minister and was, therefore, not within the "frame" of those who were busy constructing reality. The same is true of the three brothers, all Baptist ministers, who were charged with child molestation in the 1990s: the public learned little about this highly unusual series of cases because it was not deemed worthy of dissemination by those fixated on Catholic scandals.

Were it not for the way the problem of clergy sexual abuse has been socially defined, the public would know that the problem is hardly confined to the Catholic community.   Indeed, as Jenkins has written, "In reality, Catholic clergy are not necessarily represented in the sexual abuse phenomenon at a rate higher than or even equal to their numbers in the clerical profession as a whole."   The biggest difference between the Catholic and Protestant clergy in relation to this problem is due mostly to reporting procedures: there is no counterpart among Protestants to the highly centralized data keeping done by the Catholic Church, hence it is often difficult to make comparisons between the clergy of the two religions.
A Review Essay of Philip Jenkins's Pedophiles and Priests

21 posted on 02/21/2006 6:13:06 PM PST by GirlShortstop
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To: GirlShortstop; xzins; blue-duncan; AZhardliner
Catholic clergy are not necessarily represented in the sexual abuse phenomenon at a rate higher than or even equal to their numbers in the clerical profession as a whole."   The biggest difference between the Catholic and Protestant clergy in relation to this problem is due mostly to reporting procedures...

See post #23.

As long as you go on believing this "reporting procedure" fairytale, the problem will only continue to destroy the next generation.

24 posted on 02/21/2006 7:29:34 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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