We all know that one reason the Catholic Church is targeted is because lawyers need a ‘target’ with what they think are ‘deep pockets.’ The embarrassment to the Priest or Religious charged with a sexual crime is a smear not on just ‘that’ one person or one church or organization, it is an attack on the entire Catholic Church.
Protestants abuse young girls sexually. I was married to one ... but it’s called ADULTERY in the Protestant Church ... and the solution is a divorce and the minister/preacher can remarry without much fanfare if the ‘child’ is over the legal age.
And unless it’s a big name television preacher, the public won’t ever hear about the sexual exploits of most deviant Protestant preachers. FEW Protestant preachers are sued by their child-lovers because VERY FEW Protestant preachers have any money and they’re considered ‘self-employed’ and unable to cash in on their church denomination’s funds.
If it’s a Baptist, like the one across the street from where I lived, the Baptist Church sent him to some ‘counseling’ organization in Texas to be rehabilitated and paid off the woman [in this case, and married] with a sizable “gift.” [However in his previous church he had been with an UNDERAGE girl.] He came back from ‘counseling,’ his wife didn’t lose her position in the community and the ‘other woman’ drove around in a new car. End of story. BARELY made the local paper and only because a reporter caught the reported incident on the Police Scanner.
The public’s lurid curiosity about celibacy is fed by the uneducated sexually deviant purveyors of sleaze and headlines. And some of them are so-called “catholics” who don’t know the Church nor her teachings.
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS sexually abuse children regularly. It rarely makes the papers. Teachers Unions protect the guilty and the child is made out to have ‘enticed’ the teacher ... except MayBe when it’s a Female Teacher and an underage male.
H3LL, if NAMBLA and GLBT and GLSEN had their way, TEACHERS would start having sex with Newborns before they left the Hospital Nursery and call it all ‘education’ ... and ACLU and Teachers Unions would be protecting the sexual deviants.
As long as the public sees sex as a recreational sport and not as a procreative responsibility ... children [heck, everyone] are at risk of rape and sexual abuse.
Inside the marriage of one man/one woman, it’s a whole nuther ballfield. Or bedfield.
Good post. :)