(November 19, 2012 at 2:12 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I don't blame religion for this stuff, I blame a cloistered heirarchical organisation known for closing ranks, keeping silent and quietly shuffling offenders to other parishes and fresh victims.
I do blame the religion in the sense that opportunities to molest would not arise as readily in these situations if the leaders were not accorded automatic respect and trust because of their job. I would not leave my children in the care of an engineer or a welder just because they were an engineer or a welder, but clergy get unchaperoned access to children simply because they get paid by a church and wear fancy dress.
Nice thread title, by the way. Punmanship counts for a lot, in my estimation.
