Section 29

Citation: Section 29
Parent Document: Donaldson v. State of Montana, 2012 MT 288 (2012)
Jurisdiction: Montana (state)
Effective Date: 2012-12-17
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/889962/donaldson-v-state-of-montana/ ↗

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prodigious, and I make no attempt to cite all of it here. The following resources confirm
my observations in this regard: The City University of New York, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests
and Deacons in the United States 1950-2002 (Feb. 2004), http://www.bishop-
accountability.org/reports/2004_02_27_JohnJay_revised/2004_02_27_John_Jay_Main_R
eport_Optimized.pdf; Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine
Human Values, 199-201 n. 14 (Free Press 2010); Catholic Sex Abuse Cases,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases (a thoroughly annotated article on
the subject); Sandra M. Schneiders, The Effects of Women’s Experience on Their
Spirituality, http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/833521schneiders.html; Judith
Levitt, Women as Priests, N.Y. Times (Sep. 29, 2012); Rachel Donadio, Pope Rebukes
Priests Who Advocate Ordaining Women and Ending Celibacy, N.Y. Times (Apr. 5,
2012); Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious,
http://www.usccb.org/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=55544.
In a similar vein, while officially condemning homosexuality, the Boy Scouts of
America, a federally chartered organization, incongruously maintained a different
approach in dealing with pedophile adult scout leaders and volunteers. For decades, the
organization maintained secret “perversion files,” failed to report incidents of child
sexual abuse to legal authorities, covered up sexual abuse reports, handled sexual abuse
claims “in house” via face-saving measures, and facilitated the sexual abuse of children
by allowing pedophiles excluded from the scouting program in one state to reenter the
program in a different state (not unlike the approach of the Catholic Church, as noted
above. See Petula Dvorak, In Boy Scouts’ “Perversion Files,” Vivid Details on the Child
Molesters among Us, Washington Post (Oct. 26, 2012); Paul Duggan, Boy Scout
“Perversion Files” Released, Washington Post (Oct. 18, 2012); Bob Rogers, Montana
and Wyoming Men Identified in Boy Scouts’ “Perversion File,” Billings Gazette (Oct.
18, 2012); PRWeb, Monumental Boy Scouts Child Sex Abuse Report Released,
http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebboy-scouts/child-sex-abuse/prweb10134925.htm
(Nov. 15, 2012).
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I Timothy 1:10, and Jude 1:7 (New King James Version). The primary condemnations of

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