That site sure writes funny to be a credible site, for instance, here where they go from saying “child sex-abuse” and then mixes up some things to give a false impression by describing adult sex instead. This isn’t the way respectable sources write and mix and match.
“James Cobble, executive director of CMR, who oversees the survey, says the data show that child sex-abuse happens broadly across all denominationsâ and that clergy aren’t the major offenders.
“The Catholics have gotten all the attention from the media, but this problem is even greater with the Protestant churches simply because of their far larger numbers,” he says.
Where does the Baptist buck stop?: Southern Baptists acknowledge abuse among churches
(Terry Mattingly: Leadership U., June 19, 2002)The clergy sexual abuse statistics were staggering.
Local reports from angry, hurt and humiliated laypeople were too horrifying to ignore.
. . . “The incidence of sexual abuse by clergy has reached ‘horrific proportions,’ “ according to a 2000 report to the Baptist General Convention of Texas. It noted that studies conducted in the 1980s found that about 12 percent of ministers had “engaged in sexual intercourse with members” and nearly 40 percent had “acknowledged sexually inappropriate behavior.”
Rabbi’s Odyssey Reflects Struggle on Sexual Abuse: Jews Begin to Confront Silence That Hid Clergy’s Misdeeds (Alan Cooperman), Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 2, 2003; Page A17
Rabbi Sidney Goldenberg appears in court in December 1996, accused of abusing a 12-year-old girl. He later pleaded no contest to one count. (File Photo/ Mark Aronoff — Santa Rosa Press Democrat)”
Perverts are in every faith. But the Catholics are the only ones sued because that’s where the money is.
http://home.catholicweb.com/olguadalupeprolife/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=275734&From=Home
Sexual Abuse of Minors in Protestant Churches
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286153,00.html
http://suite101.com/article/church-sex-abuse-scandals-are-not-just-a-catholic-crisis-a232196
http://home.comcast.net/~rosses8/pedoph.html