Tim wrote:
On Dec 27, 5:43 pm, wrote:
On Dec 27, 6:16 pm, Boater wrote:
John H wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:00:29 -0500, Boater wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Dec 27, 1:40 pm, Boater wrote:
Brian wrote:
On Dec 27, 12:01 pm, Boater wrote:
John H wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:21:33 -0500, Boater wrote:
John H wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:28:10 -0500, Boater wrote:
John H wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:59:07 -0800 (PST), wrote:
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More of your crossposting friends, Harry?
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John
Have a Super Christmas and a Spectacular New Year!
More likely one of Loogy's.
You seem to have a real issue with crossposters.
I appreciate decent manners. You don't.
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** Good Day! **
John H
Liar. If you appreciated good manners, you'd demonstrate them.
I am. When was the last time I called you a name, or crossposted to get
support from other groups?
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John H
Crossposting really annoys you... :)
Well, i said I wouldn't bring Christian and various other religious
newsgroups in here, but now that you've said:
"Crossposting really annoys you... :)"
I might keep that as an option.
?;^ )
It matters not to me.
Harry, It's just a guess on my part, but if I got a lot of Christians
to post in here about nothing but religion, I really doubt if you'd
like it.
And again, I'm not sure, but I would imagine you would jump all over
and belittle everyone who posted about Christianity or any other
religion.
Just what I'm thinking, but not sure.
You'd be wrong. This isn't a boating newsgroup. Hell, Herring has done
his best to turn it unto a pseudo-Christian non-boating newsgroup.
Perhaps we could discuss pedophila among the Christian clergy,
Nothing sick about that, right Harry! Hell, Salty has the same kind of
thoughts. Maybe there's something going around?
Note, there was nothing ill-mannered in this post.
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John H
There's nothing sick about discussing the pedophila problem plaguing
christian clergy. What is sick is either pretending it doesn't exist or
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Sick is bein so intolerant that you will run with anything you hear
and never have any reguard for the facts, just to hurt someones
feelings or dismiss your own shortcomings...
You mean, like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7FaS...eature=related
And that has what, precisely, to do with pedophilia among the clergy?
Time ranks SBC rejection of sex-offender database as 'under-reported'
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By Bob Allen
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
NEW YORK (ABP) -- Time Magazine ranked the Southern Baptist Convention's
refusal to establish a database of clergy sex offenders one of the most
under-reported news stories in 2008.
A ranking of under-reported stories in Time's "Top 10 Everything of
2008" special feature placed the story at No. 6, behind a mix-up that
accidentally sent U.S. nuclear-warhead fuses to Taiwan, the Congolese
civil war, violence in Sri Lanka, and new guidelines for insurance
coverage for mental health and regulation of food from animals that are
genetically altered.
****"Facing calls to curb child sex abuse within its churches, in June
the Southern Baptist Convention -- the largest U.S. religious body after
the Catholic Church -- urged local hiring committees to conduct federal
background checks but rejected a proposal to create a central database
of staff and clergy who have been either convicted of or indicted on
charges of molesting minors," the magazine noted.****
"The SBC decided against such a database in part because its principle
of local autonomy means it cannot compel individual churches to report
any information. And while the headlines regarding churches and
pedophilia remain largely focused on Catholic parishes, the lack of
hierarchical structure and systematized record-keeping in most
Protestant churches makes it harder not only for church leaders to
impose standards, but for interested parties to track allegations of abuse."
Christa Brown, Baptist outreach leader for the Survivors Network of
those Abused by Priests, agreed the story was under-reported.
"It's such an extremely important story," she said. "The largest
Protestant denomination in the land -- a denomination that claims 16.2
million members -- refused to even attempt to implement the sorts of
proactive measures for routing out predators that other major faith
groups have."
Brown, a survivor of clergy sex abuse, worked two years to draw
attention to the problem of unreported sexual abuse in Southern Baptist
churches before seeing denominational leaders recommend against her
suggestion of a national database.
Last month Brown and SNAP National Director David Clohessy wrote SBC
President Johnny Hunt asking for a meeting about establishing a system
to report abusive clergy.
"As president of the Southern Baptist Convention, you now have the
opportunity to show genuine leadership on the issue of clergy sex abuse
and cover-ups," the letter said. "This may be one of the greatest
leadership challenges in the history of Southern Baptists."
The SNAP leaders said Southern Baptists' local-church autonomy makes it
all-the-more imperative that congregations have enough information to
make responsible decisions about whom they call as ministers.
"The only way people in the pews will find out about clergy child
molesters is if victims feel safe in reporting them," they said. "And
victims are never going to feel safe if they have to report abuse by
going to the church of the accused minister."
"Telling clergy victims to 'go to the church' is like telling them to go
to the den of the wolf who savaged them," the letter said. "It is cruel
to the victim and unproductive toward the end of protecting others."
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Nah...pedophilia among the clergy is just an isolated problem...