Vatican comment on paedophiles draws gay groups' anger

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MontanaHatchet said:

mrstickball said:
Still doesn't change the fact that the Catholic church has really awful human beings in their organization.

Maybe when you ban your priests from marrying, they develop awful desires like pedophilia?

I find it oh-so strange that we don't have these vast, world-spanning problems in the protestant church which has nearly the same membership as the Catholic church. Yes, there are pastors that do plenty of stupid things, but its rarely something as heinous as pedophilia. Usually, its consensual sex among adults (either adultery or homosexuality).

That doesn't sound right. The Protestant church is a good bit smaller than the Catholic church, if memory serves. 

It really depends on how you define Protestant. I was using the very broad term including Anglicans, and Orthodox. Using such metrics, there are about 800-900 million Protestants (about 650m Protestants/Anglicans) + 250m Orhtodox and 1.1 billion Catholics.