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kwassa

(23,340 posts)
19. Not totally unique.
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 05:11 PM
Jul 2016

Just off the top of my head, Joe Paterno and the Penn State football and college administration did a very similar thing. No religion involved, other than football.

edit to add:

The Boy Scouts of America has announced it will review more than a half-century of its confidential files on alleged sexual predators and will inform law enforcement of any cases it had not previously disclosed.

The unprecedented review will examine about 5,000 cases dating from the 1950s to the present in which Scouting employees or volunteers were suspected of molesting children and were expelled from the organization, officials said.

The announcement came nine days after The Times published an investigation that found Scouting officials did not report to police hundreds of cases of alleged sexual abuse between 1970 and 1991, allowing many suspected predators to resign quietly or under false pretenses. The findings were based on a review of 1,600 files entered into evidence in a 1992 court case.


http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-boy-scouts-20120927-story.html

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My UU church is welcoming... TreasonousBastard Jul 2016 #1
"Too bad the hate churches get all the press" Act_of_Reparation Jul 2016 #4
Closer to half a million. trotsky Jul 2016 #5
What??? Act_of_Reparation Jul 2016 #6
many Catholics are liberals, too. kwassa Jul 2016 #8
Except when it comes to protecting their church. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #9
and over-simplification by some of those that hate all religion. kwassa Jul 2016 #11
I fail to see your point. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #12
It must have been too obvious for you to see. kwassa Jul 2016 #18
Only if one ignores the facts. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #23
So you've run away. No surprise there. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #34
ONCE AGAIN FOR THOSE NOT PAYING ATTENTION trotsky Jul 2016 #16
Not totally unique. kwassa Jul 2016 #19
Not even fucking close, kwassa. You're dreaming. trotsky Jul 2016 #20
who is trying to excuse crimes? Not me. kwassa Jul 2016 #21
So you're responding to your own strawman with another. trotsky Jul 2016 #24
Since no one said that's the "totality" of the Catholic Church, just what part do you disagree with? cleanhippie Jul 2016 #28
C'mon, cleanhippie. trotsky Jul 2016 #35
It's all or nothing with some people Lordquinton Jul 2016 #36
And many aren't. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2016 #14
Nothing like edhopper Jul 2016 #2
Our UU Church has always been a welcoming place. redstatebluegirl Jul 2016 #3
Two UU evangels in one thread Lordquinton Jul 2016 #7
This blog post is unhistorical. kwassa Jul 2016 #10
Well at least your personal experience trumps everyone else's. trotsky Jul 2016 #15
You missed the point of my post, or just avoided it. kwassa Jul 2016 #22
No, I got your point just fine. trotsky Jul 2016 #25
My church has been very welcoming to me and my fellow LGBT Christians. hrmjustin Jul 2016 #13
Unfortunately, yours is one of few exceptions. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #29
Actually my experience in NYC is that more churches are becoming inclusive. hrmjustin Jul 2016 #30
Again, your experience is one of few exceptions. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #31
Well NYC is a different experience than the rest of the country and world so point taken. hrmjustin Jul 2016 #32
Very Welcoming & Supportive: NeoGreen Jul 2016 #17
If you consider humanism and/or ethical culture to be religion(s), no_hypocrisy Jul 2016 #26
An important distinction here Lordquinton Jul 2016 #27
And yet so many seem to not know that. cleanhippie Jul 2016 #33
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