I figured the math would upset the apple cart.
The story is about alleged sexual impropriety by a Protestant pastor. Here's what I was accused of:
"Marshmellow, and several other Catholic FReepers are on a quest to somehow rehab the Catholic Churches handling of their own priest sex scandal via posting whatever accusations they can find of a Protestant Clergyman engaging in the same behavior."
The words used by my accuser were " priest sex scandal". Quote/unquote. Did you get that? He set the terms of reference, not me. Thus when I wrote " If you think I'm on a quest, I challenge you to post a link to any previous stories I've posted of Protestant hanky panky", I was referring to precisely this; Protestant clerical sex scandals. Of which you've found two instances, not four.
So out of the hundreds of articles I've posted this year, two pertain to this issue. If you search over a longer time period, I'll bet the number of articles I've posted on this subject as a fraction of the total articles I've posted is even lower.
I could take any one day at random and find more articles posted by you on the subject of Catholic sex abuse than I've posted on Protestant sex abuse in an entire year. I was actually surprised you didn't post this news, Alex. Did you miss it??
....If a civil lawsuit is filed alleging sexual impropriety by a megachurch pastor, that is news whether you like it or not. Irrespective of guilt or innocence....The alternative is to keep it quiet. IMHO, that would be far worse in the long run. Why? Because news would leak out one way or another, which in turn would lead to rumors, many of them false, which would in turn would lead to accusations of cover-ups and fixes. Is that how you'd prefer this to unfold? Far better to be open about it publish it and let the cards fall where they may.
-- FReeper marshmallow, September 23, 2010