By Father Jonathan Morris
Fox News [United States]
July 1, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287409,00.html
Last Friday, I wrote a column about an Associated Press report that gives some useful, although very incomplete, data about the extent of sexual abuse in Protestant Church communities.
Since I have already written and spoken extensively in public about the horrific abuse scandal in the Catholic Church — in particular the reprehensible cover-up by some of its leaders — my intention in highlighting this new data was only to broaden the tent pegs of our understanding that sexual abuse is a plague, present in every corner of our society.
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My article also pointed out that in a very sick society like our own, where sexual deviations of all kinds are accessible to any curious browser, there is no wonder that some very sick people have infiltrated the ranks of religious organizations of all denominations.
Finally, I suggested that while we must work unceasingly to establish structures to protect our children and to bring justice to perpetrators and healing to their victims, it is disingenuous, or at least naïve, to suggest good policy alone will fix the problem. The sexual abuse of minors will only increase if Western society continues to glorify sexual promiscuity and graphic pornography as part of freedom of expression and to tout personal liberty and rights, while rejecting any reference to their corresponding moral obligations.
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