[Judith Anne]

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.

[1000 silverlings]

No doubt you can spend the rest of your life unearthing sex scandals in whichever religion and denomination you want to. There is a biblical format in place to deal with sinful and criminal behavior, set up by that loony (in your words) Paul.

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.