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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not Catholic. I do think this is awful. But I also wonder if you’re equally as obsessive on the school and Family fora, or [b]whether you bother to report on leaders from other faiths[/b], every time there’s a news report about molestation. [/quote]

This.  The media and liberals seem to have an obsession with Catholics that do wrong.  Protestants, Muslims, Jews - they all get a pass.[/quote]

No, there’s plenty of coverage when an evangelical pastor is busted for gay s*x.

The media/popular attention is due to the fact that these guys are massive hypocrites. Trying to exert control over other people’s sexuality and reproduction, including through political influence, and meanwhile engaged in the most rank personal conduct. As for Catholics, [b]there is plenty of evidence that  the Catholic Church specifically has an abuse problem caused by the celibacy requirement and the type of people who are attracted to that[/b], plus access to minors, and a culture of covering up abuse. [/quote]

Thank you for letting us know you don’t know much of anything about what drives pedophilic behavior and sexual assault in general. Here’s a hint - it’s not about lack of legal appropriate age sex partners.

Consider the Southern Baptist church whose hundreds of heterosexual married clergy have molested hundreds (more likely thousands, because so many never report) of children in their congregations.

Consider the Boy Scouts, whose troop leaders and other volunteers molested 80,000 boys over the years.

Consider all the tens of thousands of kids who get molested at home by dad or mom or grandpa or uncle or sibling - immediate family is undoubtedly the primary source of child molestation and quite clearly vows of celibacy are not at issue.

Please, educate yourself. The Catholic Church has much to be ashamed of for many years to come, but our larger society has covered up more child sexual abuse than it has.[/quote]

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