erog84

I completely agree. It's sad that we can now look back and see how much some of these church leaders (Throughout all religions) have failed us. Yes they are only human, just like anyone else, but I think many of us, myself included, expect more out of them.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I would rather a paper trail showing I covered my bases than ignoring a situation if it comes back to bite me. There is never a perfect solution, and will always be "exceptions to the rule", but as I stated before, better safe than sorry.

There is definitely plenty of people that fall into that.

Having read your posts for years now (long time lurker), I think you would appreciate a "common sense" approach. When someone is saying child abuse or rape, that is much different than a single bruise. And if you aren't sure, better safe than sorry.

I don't think some general views by certain people over the past 40 years represent every young mans struggle today with pornography. Pornography is in much more abundance at such a younger age, that I personally feel like it is a lot more difficult issue for young men in 2018 than it was in 1980 on a whole (everyone is different).

Yea, maybe I miss-interpreted. I read it as the "church court" since I am so used to people calling it that.

This is what I quoted, and was replying to his personal situation. Perhaps there is miscommunication going on because your response is hard to match up to what I said based on his personal situation. Maybe you felt like I was responding to the original posting? Here is my reply regardless. - Sent by himself. If he was able to send the knowledge of knowing child abuse was going on to a church authority, he should have been sending that to the legal authorities. - I don't think the Church should be involved at determining the legality of those things other than turning over what information they are given to the authorities (legal ones). If you want to let the Bishop know what's going on, fine, but that should be secondary to letting CPS (or police, etc) know.

And this is the problem in my view. That information should have been sent to the local legal authorities, not the local ecclesiastic authorities. We see the same issue across many organizations, who keep it all internal when it should be handled outside the organization. How many occurrences have happened just like this, where the local church authority covered it up? Hopefully very few, but I am not too optimistic about that.

Divorce proceedings can change by state, so just keep that in mind when hearing about what to do from someone other than your lawyer. From my understanding, in some states cheating on a spouse can effect the outcome, while other states it can't be used at all, so make sure you clarify that with your lawyer.

Looks like Kobe did let it out that this is his last season. I'm sure it sucks for him, but it happens to everyone. I am sure alot of laker fans are breathing a sigh of relief though!

I watched Lakers and Warriors last night, and all I could think was " sure if you let me shoot that much I could hit 1-11 also", which is what Kobe's shooting was. I'm sure there is hope he gets better throughout the year, but much longer of this and he needs to save himself the embarrassment and retire, because last night was so mediocre. He didn't look like he belonged in the nba. Warriors have faced a few good teams, but overall their schedule has been really weak, and all their players are healthy. Any great team needed some luck to elevate them higher, and that is waht the warriors are seeing right now. Will be interesting to see if they lose one of their top players to injury and have to play against a fully healthy cavs/spurs team and how they will deal with it.

I have been into MMA I would guess about 10 years now, watching almost every PPV and keeping up on alot of the fighters. But occasionally there will be a fight here or there that makes me step back and question it... for a day or two, then I am back into it. These type of fights would be ones where the ref isn't stopping it even though it is obvious the guy is out on his feet and is just taking a beating until he goes unconscious. Blood and cuts, broken limbs, none of that phases me but when someone can't fight back, the fight should be stopped asap. Sadly most of the refs are terrible.

Warriors one game from setting best starting record, but luckily we have the Mighty Lakers to stop them! Congrats to warriors on the new record :)

I guess we shouldn't be suprised anymore at Coach's getting fired. Seems coachs are the first people on the hotseat and the stars are usually blameless. Being from AZ and a huge suns fan, it's shocking to people here that I am a big fan of the Spurs. The more I read about their organization the more respect I have, and it shows how successful they have been. More organizations need to try that model, and be PATIENT, and see where it takes them.

Holly showed great movement, something I really haven't seen too much of her since she crossed over to mma. She finally is showing what many people expected of her, and that is great. But Ronda wasn't actively trying to take her down, the one instance she did was more opportunistic. IMO Jon Jones is not a great example to compare to Holly Holm. Jon jones uses his length really well to keep distance, Holly uses alot better foot work and Angles. Holly came from a boxing/kickboxing background, Jones comes from a wrestling background, huge difference when discussing Holly keeping it on the feet. Jones has improved ALOT on his BJJ, and we haven't seen too much of Hollies. Slipping out of ONE arm bar attempt though does not make me think she can continue to do it in a rematch if Ronda focuses on that. I believe Holly is a legit top teir fighter in that division, and that the win wasn't a fluke by anymores. But we see this all the time, bad gameplans can make great fighters look amateur. Holly still has a good chance to win the next fight, but I would put my money on Ronda (if she mentally gets over the beating she took, which might not happen at all).