Herman Cain's Alleged Sexual Harassment And UUA Negligence Towards And Complicity In UU Clergy Sexual Misconduct - What's The Connection?
Unitarian Universalist minister and sexologist Rev. Debra Haffner is 'Raising Cain on Sexual Harassment' in The Huffington Post. Her article about sexual harassment accusations against Republican would-be presidential candidate Herman Cain raises some questions about how the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations responds to clergy sexual misconduct. So I asked some of these questions in a comment responding to this comment by Skeptic406 -
Not only is it Slick Willie's "private business" but he will actually inspire a "less than perfect" Unitarian Universalist minister who unceremoniously dumped his first wife to marry a neighbor's wife he coveted to say -
"I am so proud of you. Hang in there."
Source -
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/10/dan_cryer_makes_being_alive_an.html
I can't help but wonder if the "specific national religious denomination" where "up until now" sexual harassment training had been optional at its headquarters was none other than the ever so progressive Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. . .
It may be that the UUA now has a required course on clergy sexual misconduct prevention and how to create a congregation free from sexual abuse, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct etc. etc. but the fact of the matter is that the UUA has a shameful history of being incredibly lax in its disciplining of "less than perfect" Unitarian Universalist ministers who are guilty of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct, to say nothing of numerous forms of non-sexual clergy misconduct. But don't take my word for this. Take the word of UU minister Rev. Deborah Pope-Lance as presented during the UUA's Berry Street Lecture -
http://www.uuma.org/page/BSE2011
I wonder how many UUs know that they elected a UU minister who was justifiably accused of clergy sexual misconduct involving an adulterous affair or "fling" as President of the UUA?
Not only is it Slick Willie's "private business" but he will actually inspire a "less than perfect" Unitarian Universalist minister who unceremoniously dumped his first wife to marry a neighbor's wife he coveted to say -
"I am so proud of you. Hang in there."
Source -
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/10/dan_cryer_makes_being_alive_an.html
I can't help but wonder if the "specific national religious denomination" where "up until now" sexual harassment training had been optional at its headquarters was none other than the ever so progressive Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. . .
It may be that the UUA now has a required course on clergy sexual misconduct prevention and how to create a congregation free from sexual abuse, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct etc. etc. but the fact of the matter is that the UUA has a shameful history of being incredibly lax in its disciplining of "less than perfect" Unitarian Universalist ministers who are guilty of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct, to say nothing of numerous forms of non-sexual clergy misconduct. But don't take my word for this. Take the word of UU minister Rev. Deborah Pope-Lance as presented during the UUA's Berry Street Lecture -
http://www.uuma.org/page/BSE2011
I wonder how many UUs know that they elected a UU minister who was justifiably accused of clergy sexual misconduct involving an adulterous affair or "fling" as President of the UUA?
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