That doesn't say much for their collective powers of discernment. And on that note:
...It should be a warning sign to everyone that if a religious order looks to "the Psychs" for expert advice on dealing with known sinful behavior, instead of looking in their Bibles for solutions, they prove themselves to be scripturally deficient if not illiterate....We should not expect "psychological treatment" will end sinful behavior. That's what many bishops have believed, however, and look at what fruit it has yielded - $3,000,000,000 awarded in damages and settlements by Catholic dioceses within the United States alone.
Alex Murphy, May 20, 2009If the InsideCatholic.com blog can be believed, two-thirds of all American bishops were complicit in covering up the immoral and illegal actions of 4% or fewer Catholic clergymen. All we can say with certainty is that 96+% - 105,302 Catholic clergymen - were never accused, yet 95 percent of all Catholic dioceses in the United States were impacted negatively. The numbers are more damning for the bishops then they are for the priests.
.... Alex Murphy, Sept. 29, 2009
Alex Murphy -> “That doesn’t say much for their collective powers of discernment.”
It appears there’s way less discernment in Protestant child sexual abuse cases and to make it worse they say they can’t do anything about it -
“...According to the Associated Press, the SBC has concluded that its decentralized structure of independent churches makes it impossible for it to establish a website of pastors credibly accused of child sexual abuse, or even to require the reporting of such crimes to the police...”
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20080612.html
More than 260 sex abuse cases reported annually to insurance companies by Protestant churches
Rose French/Associated Press
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jun/15/more-260-sex-abuse-cases-reported-annually-insuran/
http://abcnewsstore.go.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/DSIProductDisplay?catalogId=11002&storeId=20051&productId=2000921&langId=-1&categoryId=100020
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2557225/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2486420/posts
Like I said to your cohort - weed your own trough first.