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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also of note, for those of you following the Pedogate issue, at 38m+ they delve into the problem of child sexual abuse in the school system.

The average yearly child sexual abuse cases against Catholic Priests : 201

The average yearly child sexual abuse cases against Public School Employees : 29,000

Without getting into the war on the Catholic Church (exposing their very real issues, but ignoring the abuse in schools, Hollywood, Washington, and promoting the real issues of the Spanish Inquisition yet ignoring the overwhelming crimes of the Anglican Church, etc) this is significant.

For the record, I'm an agnostic-leaning atheist (brought up Protestant resisting all the way). I think religion is generally stupid but has many good features. While I think it's a great idea to have a separation of church and state, I think its FAAAAR more important to create a SEPARATION OF BANKS AND STATE.

FYI the vice-principal of my high school was charged for groping boys. I didn't follow that story to the results. My younger brother was good friends with him and did weekly sailing races together but said nothing funny happened or was indicative. Decades later, (ironically?) my brother has grown up to be a principle at several private American schools. (We're Canadian.)