The Catholic Church has no lock on covering up for sexual
depravity.  A fifteen year old girl
raped by her church’s deacon and then forced by her pastor to apologize for
being raped to her church’s congregation? 

The pastor,  Chuck Phelps of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord, New Hampshire,  read 

a single-page letter written for [Tina] Anderson
apologizing for allowing herself to get in a compromising situation and for
getting pregnant.  Church members
were then asked to come forward to offer their forgiveness, Anderson said.  Willis [the rapist] had to apologize
for cheating on his wife.  “They
said, ‘We forgive you for getting pregnant,’ ” she said. “It felt stupid, it just
felt wrong.” 

While Phelps admitted to her Willis was 99 percent at fault, she was still one percent to blame.  Therefore she had to ask forgiveness.  Significantly, Willis, at 99 percent, was not asked to ask forgiveness for
rape, just for extramarital sex. 
This moral and spiritual abomination did not stop there.  Tina Anderson was sent to Colorado where

a minister there asked her to write a letter to Willis’s
wife, apologizing for abusing her trust by having sex with her husband.  Church members there monitored her
phone calls and didn’t allow her to be with people her own age, she said.

Bizarrely, apparently her parents remain members of this obscene church
to this day.

Hard as this is to believe, it is the inevitable spawn of arguing what is highest and most Sacred is only male.  It emerges from all too many weak minded or morally depraved Christians and Muslims (I am not aware of recent Jewish abominations against women, although the Old Testament has its share).   

This country desperately needs to free
itself from the spiritual darkness of conceiving the Sacred in purely male
terms, let alone the sadistic and sick image of an all powerful male deity that
can only forgive people sins that occurred before they were born by the
sacrifice of his innocent son by still other people.  That is a libel on what is masculine as well as what is
feminine.