Blacks and Latinos in the UPCI Question.

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

UPC and anyone we "know" aside... Statistically, is there greater incidence of sexual moral failure among preachers of some races?

Originally Posted by tstew

Not to the best of my knowledge. Personally, I know of moral failure of people from almost every conceivable background...and I also know qualified, holy men of every conceivable background who hold themselves above sexual moral failure. I fail to see the relevance though. Perhaps you could expound a little.

Originally Posted by tstew

Hoover, I'm not trying to be disagreeable for the sake of argument, but I am very curious as to what the sexual immorality angle had to do with this. I also just wanted to add that we can become diverse by including qualified minorities where they were at one point intentionally excluded. Most often in the real world, when something was intentionally damaged, it must be intentionally fixed.

Originally Posted by TRFrance

I was baffled by that too. The sexual immorality thing came from way out of left field.

Perhaps he will clarify.

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Seems to be impying blacks preachers ciimit more sexual sins, maybe???

Sorry folks, did not mean to throw a bomb and leave...

Some time ago I did read an article on sexual immorality among black clergy. Perhaps someone can help me ID the piece.

The article was introspective and I believe the study was led by scholars and clergy within the black community. It made the case that immorality was at very high levels and shutting the offenders out of the ministry as many traditional churches have done would leave a giant hole in the "black church" leadership. Consequently many have come to accept this as a part of black culture and restitution to the ministry is nearly always a given - often without any lapse of the office.