[RobbyS]

A lot of this is a reaction to the piling on, the exaggeration, the venom, and yes, the unfairness. If I can found lying drunk and hauled off to jail, am I more of a sinner than the man who drinks himself into a stupor in his own room? The public scandal is the problem, but the constant sandal-mongering, and digging up dirt. The Catholic Church is subjected to this, but other institutions not so much. A Catholic diocese is robbed of millions by lawyers, but the local school board gets Scot free by simply letting worse offenders flee into the night. The irony being that that board can be sued for praying at school board meetings but not for concealing the crimes of its employees, because it is a sovereign institution. To be sure, the priest scandal caused others to be put under closer scrutiny, but no one goes after the schools with the ferocity and energy as they go after the Church.For the Church is hated for other reasons, and the Schools. not.

[CynicalBear]

>> The Catholic Church is subjected to this, but other institutions<<

Do the other “institutions” parade themselves as representatives of Christ? If others don’t see what you are doing as pathetic be advised that I certainly do.