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Current events drive the heat factor on the Religion Forum.

You've only been a Freeper for a month or so. If you had been here back in the FLDS scandal or Romney's failed campaign, you might think the Mormons were the only ones being told to leave threads.

The Catholic Church has suffered some lousy news recently which no doubt has become fodder for the antis as the FLDS scandal was for those antis.

Next time maybe the Lutherans will be on the receiving end of bad news.

Posters who can't handle the heat need to stay out of the kitchen.

Shouldn’t the posters who couldn’t stand the heat from buccaneer stay out of the picture?

I believe the bias has been going on for quite a while.

I think there is an anti-Mormon bias on this website, too.

Maybe Lutherans can be unfairly picked on.

I’m not so sure about Calvinists and members of assorted pseudoChristian religions, though.

Interesting that this involves Philadelphia. You'd think the political powers that be in the city of brotherly love would be consistent. The gay blades that run the city council and the prosecutor's office were harrassing the Boy Scouts because they don't allow pedophiles in their organizatiut on, and now here are the same people going after the Catholic Church because some 37 such people were discovered.

So, what is the consistent pattern here ~ is it that one organization builds a barrier and another doesn't? Or is it something more subtle ~ maybe EASE OF ACCESS for adults into the organization?

It's possible for adult pedophiles (who haven't got a track record of criminal convictions) to possibly enter the Scout leadership ranks ~ but it's pretty obviously difficult for adults to enter the ranks of RCC priests (who, unless transferring in from the Episcopals are ordinarily quite young).

Maybe that factor is what has turned the pedophile enablers in Philadelphia to targeting both the Boy Scouts and the RCC. They sought to force Boy Scouting to open the doors ~ and at the same time they simply sought to force competitors out of the ranks of the priests ~ perchance thinking that the fewer competitors in an organization already seriously short of priests they themselves might find other routes of access open to them to get at the Catholic children. If not choirboys, then CYO football!

Hope you don't think I'm trying to hijack the thread, but Catholicism isn't the real burning issue here ~ it's more about WHAT'S REALLY UP IN PHILADELPHIA?