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Many Women Targeted by Faith Leaders, Survey Says

Jacqueline L. Salmon
Posted: September 10, 2009.

Print: The Washington Post

The study, by Baylor University researchers, found that the problem is so pervasive that it almost certainly involves a wide range of denominations, religious traditions and leaders.

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1. John Wilkinson

shocking(sarcasm). Schopenhauer is great on the all-prevelance on sexual motivation in life. The odious thing is when you try to suppress it, which of course is the spine of at least the monotheisms we’re afflicted with today.

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Someone ought to suvey how men and boys have been targeted.  I bet the percentage is higher.  This is the clergy we’re talking about.

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Well, it’s better they try and ‘sharpen their pencils’  against grown women then 9year old boys. It’s always a questions of lesser trauma when dividing about religious consequences and behavior.

The appalling… the apparent counter argument will be: One priest in south Missouri never come on to his flock! And some non priest also strive for pussy at work… never mind, it’s not what God intended and it’s not My specific congregation and religious practice. Nice try evil atheist God hater!

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ha.

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