We Are Guilty Too!
The Roman Catholics have nothing on us. We Protestants can sin with the best of them! Indeed, it may very well be a by-product of the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church that a keen eye is now being increasingly focused on the Protestant churches. Make no mistake about it: The sexual abuse of children is a sin, unequivocally and indefensibly. And it is a social, sexual, and religious problem affecting the larger society and the religious communities and institutions that are embedded in it. It is a social problem. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children , “the sexual victimization of children is overwhelming in magnitude yet largely unrecognized and underreported.” The Center quantifies this magnitude by pointing out that one out of every five girls, and one out of every ten boys, will be sexually abused before they are adults. If you know any adolescent or pre-adolescent children, chances are high that one of them has been or will be