A serious abuse case emerges in the Episcopal Church, leading to other revelations

From Philadelphia-

I hope I'm not so naive as to be shocked and overwhelmed when a serious abuse case is revealed within my own Communion. You can read the full story here: www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/07/episcopal-bishop-reinstated-despite-sex-abuse-failure

The gist of it is that an Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Bennison, failed to report sexual misconduct by his younger brother, a youth minister. At the time he was defrocked. It has now been overturned on the grounds that, first: Charles Bennison did not commit the offense himself, and two: the statute of limitations has run out.

I believe that the result would have been different if Bishop Bennison had had an affair with a minor girl, as his brother did. But the "two wrongs don't make a right" idea applies here. Even though Bishop Bennison couldn't bring himself to call the police--perhaps the brother and the girl protested that they were in love--he was clearly involved as having knowledge of statutory rape.

This story branched into other emerging abuse stories, and it would again be naive in the extreme if I wrote from the point of view that only the Catholic Church were suffering through its agonies of international castigation. I'd say that it would probably be within the parameters of percentage and numbers.

More here-

http://www.examiner.com/x-26492-Tucson-Liberal-Christian-Examiner~y2010m8d9-A-serious-abuse-case-emerges-in-the-Episcopal-Church-leading-to-other-revelations