Actually Mark, that's factually incorrect, if you compare apples to apples. From the figures and statistics I've studied, any given Catholic priest (historically) is four times more likely to molest an underage child (either sex) than any given "non-hierarchical" pastor. That number IIRC increases by a factor of (at least) 8 if the comparison is made between a Catholic priest and a "mainline Protestant" pastor. If you've got something that shows otherwise, I'd love to see how it stacks up against the other study data that I've read.
We've never had a situation where 12% of our priests had sex with the members and 40% had inappropriate contact.
These are from the Baptists themselves. Again, I don't mean to point the finger at Baptists, I would just compare - I happened on this article first. And the folks that have rightfully been looking into Catholic clergy abuse of children are now looking several of the non-hierarchical sects.
Celibacy ain't it. These ministers are all able to marry and have as an active a sex life as they wish. Oh, and statistics sometimes get a little muddled as well. Many of the ministers who molest their own children get into the stats as domestic child molesting rather than clerical child molesting, which would put the figures up a little higher yet.