re: #72 lawhawk

Neither am I.

The church (whether the Catholic Church or the Southern Baptists) covered up abuse, rape, etc., and silenced the victims while moving around the abusers from parish to parish. They engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the details of the abuse for decades.

They get zero credit for coming forward now.

They do not get any benefit of doubt now.

They should lose their tax exemptions. They got those benefits because they were perceived as a social good, but the crime and the coverup should end them.

All churches have this problem to one degree to another.

reformation.com (list from local press accounts of churches of every denomination involved in child or adult sexual abuse)

The Catholic Church just gets the best press. The SBC is coming under scrutiny. They all have that problem.