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To: ConservativeMind
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"There are no real scientific data" on Protestants, he said. Since 1974, his Walk-In Counseling Center has been consulted on more than 2,000 cases of clergy sexual misconduct of all types, two-thirds of them with Protestants.

He finds that sex with adult women or teen-age girls is the most frequent Protestant problem.

In a typical Protestant case, a jury awarded $10 million in February to relatives of the late Deborah Yardley of Columbus, Ohio.

The suit charged that the Rev. Steven Colliflower, a United Methodist, had an affair with Yardley when she sought his help with alcohol and emotional problems. He left the ministry shortly after she made the allegation. She later died of liver disease.

The conservative World magazine says Protestantism faces a "severe problem" of clergy involvement with people the ministers are counseling, calling this "an egregious abuse of power."

Schoener said that clergy having sex with prepubescent victims is "very rare" in all Christian denominations.

A study of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), covering eight states over six years, found 17 cases filed against clergy with 31 victims, all female, with one case involving a minor.

51 posted on 07/07/2009 12:26:27 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: BillyBoy
The Catholic church has paid out nearly $2 billion dollars for their sex abuse cases, mostly with little boys being raped by men:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophile_priests#Compensation_payouts

How much have Protestant churches paid out in sex abuse cases, in total, remembering that there are 100% more Protestants in the US than Catholics?

54 posted on 07/07/2009 12:30:16 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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