Posted on 01/14/2011 5:57:52 PM PST by topcat54
I just figured there was so much syrup being slopped all over you from Mother Mary’s Sweetness jar
that you could stand a hosing off. Wouldn’t want layers of those sharp crystals forming all over you.
Then they’d likely accuse you of stealing their sugar! LOL.
did they dissolve the churches and run away?
Information is at the link.
Keep reading.
Here’s another interesting link:
http://news.exchristian.net/2006/12/clergy-sex-abuse-widespread-across.html
The regional SNAP office in Texas has made a similar request. Brown says that confidentiality allows ministers who have molested children or had extramarital affairs to move undetected from one church to another and prey on unsuspecting congregations.
In an article posted on the Baptist Standard Web site last March, Jan Daehnert, then an interim director with the Baptist convention, said the convention takes acts of sexual misconduct seriously and tries to prevent them. He said that the list remains confidential in large part to protect the identity of victims. *******************
So, confidentiality protects the identity of the victims? WRONG! It protects the identity of the perpetrators and the churches FIRST. The truth must come out.
Your comment in this post.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2657209/posts?page=1394#1394
Stated (copied and pasted) “Non-denominational churches are the worst for child abuse, because they form and dissolve with no formal organization to take responsibility when crimes occur, and they do occur. Criminal pastors flee to other states, take up different work or live off what they stole, leaving behind girlfriends and boy “friends” of all ages. “
The link you provided demonstrates no such thing.
Try again.
If the Church covered it up and moved him to another location, with a new bunch of kids to abuse, you'd have an arguement.
In addition, I find this woman’s comment most interesting....
“Iowa-based Guide One Center for Risk Management, which insures more than 40,000 congregations, also said Catholic churches are not considered a greater risk or charged higher premiums.
Our claims experience shows this happens evenly across denominations, said spokeswoman Melanie Stonewall.”
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So, the Catholic church is apparently insured against stuff like this. So, then why all the whining about the Catholic church paying out these lawsuits and how churches are closing because the donations from its parishioners is going to pay out lawsuits?
What’s the story here? Are they insured or not?
If they are insured, why are people portraying the Catholic church as paying out of its own pocket?
If they’re not insured, how can these statements have any validity?
Fundamental independent churches practice it, and then we hear tales of the horror of anectdotal Baptist churches, somewhere in the south/midwest actually discipling someone and the indignant lawsuits that result.
There is a reason that Christ said he'll purify the church and start with the pastors and work His way down. People are sinners. We see it in the bible, time after time, the Kings sin, Kohenim sin, the Levites sin, everyone can sin. It seems to be a condition of mankind.
So, where is it?
The examples given in the following statistics doesn't address sexual contact with children, so their comment was meaningless and still unsupported.
It’s nothing to me if you (plura) want to ignore the information I’ve gathered. There are other, intelligent readers who will fully understand the posts.
And I see no reason to get into any prolonged discussion with either of you, previous experience doesn’t show any interest in the truth from your (plural) side.
Lots of suggestions and innuendos.
I have no use for people who treat *charged* as if it were *convicted*.
Unlike Catholics we can choose the church we attend and actively resist this behavior in our church. We dont have to wait years for the pope to do something
INDEED.
WELL PUT.
Well, not exactly. Seems this fellow was youth pastor at another church where he was caught with his hand in the youth group cookie jar. They called it "inappropriate contact" with a minor. He was arrested and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. The church dismissed him. Its not clear when the church found out about his activities. So this guy takes a job with another church, the one I mentioned in the previous post. The first church tells the second church to keep an eye on this fellow. So what does the second church do? You guessed it; they gave him a leadership job in charge of teenage boys. No background check was performed. So Mr. Youth Group starts plying the young men with gifts. Next thing you know hes in the news again for inappropriately touching a boy he met at the church.
It apparently doesn't seem to bother you if the ones "charged" are Catholic.
I thought they put them in prison immediately.
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