The Southern Baptist Convention has finally released a report detailing the decades-long child sexual abuse by its clergy.
Of course, this hands-on abuse is horrific. But for more children have been damaged by the church’s explicit teaching that masturbation and children’s sexuality is sinful. This form of child abuse goes on every day in every orthodox religious institution–in plain sight.
Why don’t medical & psychological professionals speak out about this? Why don’t the rest of us?