Ministers, Priests & Truth!

1)Protestant Ministers have a divorce rate equal to the general population. Over 50% of first marriages fail in the USA. Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States. U.S. Dept. of Statistics, Vital Statistics.

2) Barbara Zikmund author of Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling and Rev. Helen Cohen of UUA General Assembly have done in depth studies about the trends of women ministers over the past thirty years. The results are as follows: women ministers are more theologically liberal, more likely to be divorced, and much more likely to leave the ministry than their male counterparts. Rev. Cohen study also reveled that with the inception of women ministers people have noted a, "loss of moral authority, turning ministers into caretakers, and a complicating attitudes about authority." Every Protestant denomination that ordained large numbers of women over the past thirty years has suffered losses in membership. The United Methodist for example have lost over 10 million members and Episcopalians have lost half of their adherents in the United States.

3)The Christian Science Monitor April 05, 2002 reported that despite headlines focusing on the priest sex scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with sexual abuse allegations of minors are Protestant.

4)Pedophiles and Priests by Philip Jenkins, Professor of History and Religious Studies at Penn State, has done extensive research of pedophilia and sexual abuse among the clergy and has come up with some rather eye opening facts. It seems that while 1.7 percent of Catholic clergy have been guilty of pedophilia , a whopping 10 percent of Protestant ministers have been found guilty of the same crime. Jenkins argues convincingly not only that clergy sex abuse is far less widespread than the headlines suggest, but that there is nothing at all particularly Roman Catholic about the problem. Jenkins unmasks the media’s unholy war against the Catholic Church, and he shows how dissidents within the Catholic Church have used this issue as a weapon to advance their agenda of a married clergy and women priestesses.