KabU*Um! The Former USS Iowa Fires A Damaging Broadside At The U*Us Of Allegedly Sleezy (Sic) "Baby Boomer" U*U Ministers Accused Of Sexual Misconduct


KabU*Um! The former 'USS Iowa', "less than new" Iowa Class battleship recently acquired by the U*U Jihad Navy and. . . not only completely refitted but also rebaptized as the U*U Jihad Navy Ship -

U*UJN 'Name Of State Withheld In Order To Protect The Identities
Of Allegedly Sleezy (Sic) Baby Boomer U*U Ministers Accused Of Clergy Sexual Misconduct'

fires a damaging broadside into the U*Us of hypocritical U*Us sailing on the U*U Ship of Fools on the U*U Sea of Hypocrisy.

Comments

Hi Robin:

First time I have heard about the UU Jihad Navy, and the fact that they have acquired a warship is impressive. Can they sail it up the St. Lawrence?

I am curious to learn more about the clergy sexual abuse. Is it rampant among UU clergy? Are the females guilty too or only the males.

I didn't realize this was such a big issue that the UU needed Navy warships. Does the UU Jihad Navy also do battle with clergy abuse in other denominations?

All the best,

David Markham
Robin Edgar said…
:First time I have heard about the UU Jihad Navy,

What took U*U so long David? The U*U Jihad Navy has been the scourge of the U*U Sea of Hypocrisy for almost as long as that Transcendentalist Super Hero known U*U World-wide as The Emerson Avenger has been *alive*. But I guess you probably didn't know that the dreaded Emerson Avenger was a Transcendentalist Super Hero either. Well neither did I until U*U RE director Cranky Cindy quite confidentially told me he was. ;-)

:and the fact that they have acquired a warship is impressive. Can they sail it up the St. Lawrence?

They can sail all over the U*U World as long as there is enough water to float the boat in question David. The U*UJNS Manhattan sailed *down* the Saint Laurence, crU*Uised around Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula and New Brunswick, past* between NU*U-Found-Land and Nova Scotia, steamed right past Boston and Providence Rhode Island, and just fired a warning shot across the bow of a rather large U*U Ship of Fools on the island of Manhattan, perhaps not inappropriately once New Amsterdam, earlier today.

:I am curious to learn more about the clergy sexual abuse.

So am I. . .

:Is it rampant among UU clergy?

Well to paraphrase a US President guilty of what the UUA would, at least *theoretically*, consider to be sexual *misconduct* it all depends on the meaning of the word "abuse". If we stick to what the UUA, its very aptly named Ministerial Fellowship Committee aka MFC, and perhaps the Unitarian*Universalist Ministers Association consider to be clergy sexual misconduct, it is "less than minimal". . . If one believes the testimony of Rev. Daniel Harper aka Mr. CrankPants clergy sexual misconduct, as fairly broadly defined by U*U officials, would *appear* to be rampant in that he claims on his Yet Another Case Of Unitarian*Universalist Clergy Sexual Misconduct blog that -

In my Unitarian Universalist tradition, some experts estimate that over fifty per cent of all Unitarian Universalist congregations have experienced an incident of clergy sexual misconduct since the 1960’s; that is to say, within living memory.

Of course as famous but "less than Unitarian" author Mark Twain once said -

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

If one divides about 1000 or so U*U "churches" by the better part of 50 years one arrives at a rough figure of about 20 cases of U*U clergy sexual misconduct of all kinds within the U*U World per year, assU*Uming of course that those experts are right about their own rough estimate. Is 20 cases of clergy sexual misconduct per year, out of 1000 "less than safe" U*U congregations, "rampant"? U*Us tell me. . . Then again one has to ask, how many cases of U*U clergy sexual misconduct go completely unreported for various reasons?

:Are the females guilty too or only the males.

Well, to quote Peacebang aka Rev. Victoria Weisntein verbatim -

Are ya kidding me? How about the good ole ministers (see, I’m not even saying what GENDER they are!) who commit serial adultery and still get the plummiest pulpits?

In a word. . .

Yes

In fact I know of a number of cases of female U*U ministers being accused of, if not found guilty of, clergy sexual misconduct by another female, and I am not talking about the jilted wives of female U*U clergy who are having an affair or a "fling" with their husband or other form of "partner".

:I didn't realize this was such a big issue that the UU needed Navy warships.

The UU aka U*U World definitely doesn't need U*U Jihad Navy warships, be they Iowa class battleships, Star Trekking space ships, or top secret Stealth submarines but it kind of asked for them. . .

:Does the UU Jihad Navy also do battle with clergy abuse in other denominations?

The U*U Jihad Navy kind of has its hands full dealing with U*U clergy sexual misconduct *and* apparently quite rampant non-sexual misconduct. It is after all the >U*U< Jihad Navy. As the UUA's "less than perfect" official apology to victims of clergy sexual misconduct states -

Other denominations have done better. . .

Even The Wonderful Wizard of U*Us can only do so much from behind* the screen of his "obsolete" yet awesomely powerful X86 computer. . .



* Or would that be in front of?
Robin Edgar said…
"They can sail all over the U*U World as long as there is enough water to float the boat in question David."

U*Us can thank me for not saying anything about "motion in the ocean". ;-)