Ms Scolding began her opening remarks by summarising in detail the background of the structure and workings of the Church of England; the significance of the Established Church’s being embroiled in allegations of child sex abuse; and why the diocese of Chichester had been selected as a case-study.
Though the parishioners, former and current are hurt, the primary victims are, and always will be, the children who were sexually exploited and abused in the creation of this material. Creator, distributer, and viewer are all culpable— this material would not be created were there no audience.
Bishop Thompson last year told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse his efforts to expose a decades-old culture of abuse and cover-ups had led to a concerted push to get rid of him.
For decades GLBT folks have been falsely accused of being a threat to children. They have been reported to have an agenda to groom future GBLT people by taking advantage of children. A reality TV Show family, the Duggars, have been influential of late in promoting those falsehoods about GLBT folks. They were actively a part of the successful campaign to overthrow an anti-discrimination law in Fayetteville AR. Yet, all the while they damaged the reputations of GLBT folk, they tried to conceal their own dark secret of a child predator in their own home.
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