Parents getting kids involved in church should agree their child may be molested.

[Locut0s]

They should need to sign a waiver that they agree that their child may be sexually molested by someone in a position of power and that they are OK with that. In fact they could lay out what acts they agree their children will be in on and how often they will be abused per year, name, date of birth and signature. Just get it all out in the open and make it all legit. It's not like it hasn't been happening for centuries anyway. Ok I'm joking, dark humour, but one almost feels it's at that point.

[rcrush]

1. I wouldn't be surprised if the Church started doing that

Not at all.

[David Zephyr]

2. Well, dark humor aside, there's a lot of truth in what you say.

I think kids would be safer playing near quicksand than in a church.

[Ocracoker16]

4. probably true if the church is Catholic

[DeSwiss]

6. I wish it were that simple.....

Durant, OK: Southern Baptist youth worker charged on rape and forcible sodomy of a child

Texas: Southern Baptist youth pastor indicted on 9 counts of sexual assault of a child

Guilty! "Murdering minister" gets 65 years

Darrell Gilyard admits fathering child of congregant - Now in prison for child molestation

Former president of Arkansas Baptist State Convention urges leniency for minister convicted on child-sex abuse

TIME ranks Southern Baptists' rejection of sex-offender database as a top "underreported" news story of 2008

http://stopbaptistpredators.org/index.htm">Stop Baptist Predators

- It would be a grave mistake to think that only Catholics are doing this......

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. You can make that argument for any activity children participate in, hence the reason why

my husband or I have always been present/involved at their activities.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I hope a church doesn't require parents to sign a waiver.

I bet Colorado would bypass the need for a waiver and just hold all churches harmless in such cases.

[timtom]

7. Public schools, as well.

[Igel]

8. Shhh.

That's not molestation. That's part of the "21st century skills" curriculum.

Just as pedophiles and hebephiles in churches were routinely made to disappear from the public consciousness, so now school teacher pedophiles and hebephiles are disregarded.

Ephebophiles are celebrated.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. In my denomination, anyone who works with children in any capacity,

even as a volunteer, is required to take a workshop in sexual boundaries.

Of course, we're not as strict on sexual matters as either the Catholics or the Southern Baptists are. Most parishes are fine with GLBT people, and I've known a number of Episcopal couples who lived together before getting married or who just lived together and didn't get married.

As a Lutheran pastor, my father used to find himself on the mailing list of just about every religious magazine in the country at one time or another, and the Southern Baptist magazines were CRAZY on the subject of sex. They were just obsessed with teenagers having "lustful thoughts," and we all know what attempting to suppress a thought does to a person.

There was even one article by a young man who did not kiss or even touch his fiancee because it "gave him lustful thoughts." My first reaction was, "I should hope so," and my second reaction was, "They're going to have a real interesting wedding night."