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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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To: ConservativeMind
You seem to be confusing "sexual misconduct" with pedophilia. 1.7% of priests were accused of "sexual misconduct" of some kind. That doesn't mean they were caught "raping little boys". Your posts are about as truthful as using Mark Sanford, John Ensign, and David Vitter being caught in sex scandals mean their is "rampant pedophilia in the Republican Party".

In any case here's the answer to your question:

"Among 2,252 priests serving over four decades, only one abuser could be termed a pedophile under the strict, clinical definition of the word - meaning the victim was prepubescent."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/659629/posts

So there's your answer. 1 priest out of 2,252 committed an act on par with "raping little boys"

Unfortunately we don't have data of all 3,000 or so protestant denominations in the U.S., but I have no doubt you could find plenty of "Sexual misconduct" among their ministers, and probably at least 1 person that actually fits the correct definition of a "pedophile"

59 posted on 07/07/2009 12:47:51 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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