The Catholic Church is like the Dark Side to Drag.
Instead of the fabulous garish fashion and outpouring of love, expression, and inclusion in a cheaply decorated tax paying dive bar that is no threat to anyone you get from a drag show, the Catholic Church is a bland seepage of shame, repression, and exclusion in an expensivly adorned tax exempt cathedral that tends to threaten all manner of earthly punishment whenever it gets a little power.
Sexual Abuse is a problem in all churches. The only reason the Catholics get it so bad is because they are the largest Christian organization on Earth, and by a long shot.
The southern baptist convention apparently has pages and pages of accusations and evidence of their own and recently voted not to release it.
Im personally an atheist, but I dont believe that church leaders are more prone to harm than others. Only that people who would harm children are attracted to jobs that provide authority over,and access to, children.
I do, however, believe that a religious organization is more likely to suppress or cover up accusations. Many churches place the good name of the leader or organization above the goodwill of its congregates.
This is for sure true. Power corrupts but it also attracts corrupted people. Hierarchical authorities are resistant to enacting consequences on authority figures because in the mind of the authoritarian that would undermine their authority. So for the good of the organization many people within it believe they must hide evidence of wrongdoing. Plenty more within the organization will justify it as the fault of the weaker party.
Most cults of authority are like this and will inevitably produce heinous abuses that multiply in scale in response to how much influence, protection and power in society they have.
Jehovah’s witnesses, The Amish, Haredi, and Mormon church benefit from The American government’s structural deference to white-coded religious authority. Other cults also take advantage of this like Scientology, Adventists, the military, and political parties.
They’ll just claim that exposing a child to drag is sexual abuse.
Facts don’t matter to these bozos. It’s all about getting high off the feeling of sanctimony, regardless of how false it is.
