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To: Alex Murphy
Dear Alex Murphy,

The priests identified as accused in the John Jay study committed offenses ranging from outright rape to inappropriate touching. Especially with older adolescents, “sexual assault” doesn't quite properly describe all these cases.

Thus, “sexual misconduct” better fits the entire range of accusations.

“So 88% had some kind of undefined ‘sexual relationship’ that did not include intercourse.”

You misread what I wrote. Of the pastors responding to the survey, 12% admitted to sexual intercourse. 38% admitted to at least some inappropriate sexual behavior. Not 12% of the 38%. Twelve percent of all the pastors who completed the survey.

So, your little trick of multiplying 12% by 38% is inaccurate.

“If the Catholic apologist were really comparing apples to apples, the real statistics would speak of Protestant clergy accused of criminal sexual contact with minors,...”

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Protestant powers-that-be have the guts to do what the Catholic hierarchy did, in paying someone to find out the extent of the problem in our Church.


sitetest

63 posted on 09/29/2009 6:25:37 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Protestant powers-that-be have the guts to do what the Catholic hierarchy did, in paying someone to find out the extent of the problem in our Church.

First, I have to ask who you think these "Protestant powers-that-be" are? Because if they haven't got the guts, it leads me to ask where did the statistics come from?

65 posted on 09/29/2009 8:31:15 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (...We never faced anything like this...we only fought humans.)
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