Comments on: Numberscruncher: Suffer Unto Me the Little Children http://popdose.com/numberscruncher-suffer-unto-me-the-little-children/ your daily dose of pop culture Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:47:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: JonCummings http://popdose.com/numberscruncher-suffer-unto-me-the-little-children/comment-page-1/#comment-41040 JonCummings Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:34:44 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=21251#comment-41040 This is a really interesting take on the church scandals, the gender bias within the clergy and their relationship to public policy. I have no idea what the right answer is; I've always thought that churches should be required to separate out the income that is earmarked for charitable and ... I don't know the proper word ... "devotional" work and should be taxed on the rest, but who knows where to draw the line?<br><br>As for your personal experience on the sidelines of an authority figure's sexual misconduct, I've experienced a similar one in recent years -- minus the religion. A popular male teacher and girls' basketball coach at my middle school was recently forced to answer for accusations of decades-ago improper sexual advances & behavior with dozens of girls, including many of my classmates. It seems extraordinary that some of these girls didn't come forward at the time, but he was such a funny and popular teacher that it's easy to imagine how difficult it would have been to take action against him.<br><br>It's all as unfathomable as it is real, and I feel terribly for the classmates (who haven't been identified, of course) who are still paying for the teacher's crimes. This is a really interesting take on the church scandals, the gender bias within the clergy and their relationship to public policy. I have no idea what the right answer is; I've always thought that churches should be required to separate out the income that is earmarked for charitable and … I don't know the proper word … “devotional” work and should be taxed on the rest, but who knows where to draw the line?

As for your personal experience on the sidelines of an authority figure's sexual misconduct, I've experienced a similar one in recent years — minus the religion. A popular male teacher and girls' basketball coach at my middle school was recently forced to answer for accusations of decades-ago improper sexual advances & behavior with dozens of girls, including many of my classmates. It seems extraordinary that some of these girls didn't come forward at the time, but he was such a funny and popular teacher that it's easy to imagine how difficult it would have been to take action against him.

It's all as unfathomable as it is real, and I feel terribly for the classmates (who haven't been identified, of course) who are still paying for the teacher's crimes.

]]> By: JonCummings http://popdose.com/numberscruncher-suffer-unto-me-the-little-children/comment-page-1/#comment-31326 JonCummings Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:34:44 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=21251#comment-31326 This is a really interesting take on the church scandals, the gender bias within the clergy and their relationship to public policy. I have no idea what the right answer is; I've always thought that churches should be required to separate out the income that is earmarked for charitable and ... I don't know the proper word ... "devotional" work and should be taxed on the rest, but who knows where to draw the line?<br><br>As for your personal experience on the sidelines of an authority figure's sexual misconduct, I've experienced a similar one in recent years -- minus the religion. A popular male teacher and girls' basketball coach at my middle school was recently forced to answer for accusations of decades-ago improper sexual advances & behavior with dozens of girls, including many of my classmates. It seems extraordinary that some of these girls didn't come forward at the time, but he was such a funny and popular teacher that it's easy to imagine how difficult it would have been to take action against him.<br><br>It's all as unfathomable as it is real, and I feel terribly for the classmates (who haven't been identified, of course) who are still paying for the teacher's crimes. This is a really interesting take on the church scandals, the gender bias within the clergy and their relationship to public policy. I have no idea what the right answer is; I've always thought that churches should be required to separate out the income that is earmarked for charitable and … I don't know the proper word … “devotional” work and should be taxed on the rest, but who knows where to draw the line?

As for your personal experience on the sidelines of an authority figure's sexual misconduct, I've experienced a similar one in recent years — minus the religion. A popular male teacher and girls' basketball coach at my middle school was recently forced to answer for accusations of decades-ago improper sexual advances & behavior with dozens of girls, including many of my classmates. It seems extraordinary that some of these girls didn't come forward at the time, but he was such a funny and popular teacher that it's easy to imagine how difficult it would have been to take action against him.

It's all as unfathomable as it is real, and I feel terribly for the classmates (who haven't been identified, of course) who are still paying for the teacher's crimes.

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