[Mrs. Don-o]

The Powers that Be will use these kinds of allegations, even 30 - 50 years old, to take down any institution they wish to morally discredit. The charges are at this point incapable of proof or disproof, but no matter: just the accusation itself is a lifelong sliming.

Who will they go after next? My guess would be the Southern Baptists, simply because they're big, and they're on record opposing institutionalized sodomy and infanticide.

[daniel1212]

The problem is that so many cases of real abuse are true, and were allowed due to failure of oversight and discipline, thus requiring administration from without. Which, in addition to the great harm on the victims, allows the state to stand where it ought not, and before was reluctant to tread, which can be conducive to justifying more intervention, but this time to conform to such things as psychological health standards, under the pretense of the public good.