[lonestar67]

Isn't it interesting that you do not see such melodramatic articles written about public education where the incidence of such crimes is much higher?

[Mad Dawg]

I get it. If you want to point out abuses in Protestant ministry, before you do so, you have to take a bunch of licks at Catholics just to show your bona fides.

My personal response is, yeah, it's an outrage. It also seems to be pretty popular and persistent. Taking good and effective steps to minimize such occurrences is one thing. Having a huge public display of the vapors is another. It seems to me that what we need is some folks who can look at the problem systematically and calmly. Eros seems to be part of the fuel of the Spiritual life. Christians who want to renounce the amateur status and go pro may have bunches of Eros. Somebody might need to see if that's determinable and then talk about ways to keep it within bounds.

But again, as the other poster notes, it's not clear if the clergy are more likely to commit these abominations than the populace in general ...

[siunevada]

To me, the headline is misleading since he doesn't seem to propose an answer to that particularly provocative question.

It's more of an advisory to be on your guard. Good advice, but the headline promised something the article did not deliver.

[Reaganesque]

Why Would a Baptist Church Hire an Accused Child Molester and Adulterer as Counselor?

Because the accused Ax-Murdering Transvestite wasn't available?

[Tax-chick]

Pope Leo X was a Medici. 'Nuff said. He was famous for his zoo.

[ventana]

Sex Abuse Spans Spectrum of Churches

Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html

V's wife

[sandhills]

"What a travesty when spiritual leaders betray their ordination vows..."

Yep. Like the article said, there are popes in there, and there is also the guy who "picked up his hammer and drove..."

After making a vow to God, he married a nun who he conveniently released of her vow.

[Between the Lines]

It is hard to tell which the author hates the most, Baptists or Catholics.

[Between the Lines]

You have posted part one of a two part story. Here you can read both parts:

Title: Why Would a Baptist Church Hire an Accused Child Molester and Adulterer as a Counselor?

Now it has been revealed that an accused sexual predator was hired by the large and influential Trinity Baptist in Jacksonville.

Here is the irony of this article. Though the author rants about preventing sexual abuse in the church, he keeps the predator's name out of the article. Outing these sexual predators is our best defense that he will not be able to do it again.

The author in omitting the predator's name has committed a sin equal to that of the church he is admonishing.