Should churches be banned from being built in neighborhoods with children?

Question

With all the child rape and sex scandals in the church wouldnt it be best for the safety of our children that churches not be permitted to open in residential neighborhoods?

They would still be allowed to operate in a business community

Answer 1

Let's worry about banning crackhouses from being built in neighborhoods with children first.

Answer 2

Let's see...
allow sex criminals to live near children or by schools...
allow the crackhouses to use children to do their dirty work, exposing them to meth and cocaine.
Blame the church for a few people, and ALL the church is branded child molesters.

Some choice thought processing, I'd say.

One thing, Catholic church scandals make world wide news, but a woman in Virginia goes to court for killing her unborn child hours before birth by placing a gun to her womb. That;s not the worst news.
a. She has two other children.
b. The judge dismissed her case, "No harm, no foul."
This news barely made headline news.

You tell me what the problem truly is.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, those who abuse children are everywhere, not just in churches.
I'd think a neighborhood with a church in it would be a good place to bring up children, because it would be so quiet and people wouldn't be going to the church at all hours of the night.

Answer 4

Should we ban children from attending church? Lets just ban neighborhoods with children. Then we can build churches anywhere. I think it is essential for my child to grow up in church. There are kids that get raped in churches yes. By sick PEOPLE!!! There are sick people everywhere. NOT JUST CHURCHES. I don't know if this is a stab at Christianity, or just a specific denomination, but I think its kind of extreme.

Answer 5

I grew up in a neighborhood that most people couldn't survive in.
I would be dead if we didn't have a church in that neighborhood.
If you want to help children first try to take away the crack houses where they take children to be raped at away.
You really want to take the one place that sets moral codes for people away from children?
Pfft. What is this world coming to?

Answer 6

Well schools are going through the same controversy, are you saying that we should not have schools near neighborhoods as well? That sound a little one sided, seeing as how all the bad people in any given group only make up about 10% of it's people.

Answer 7

No, no, no, no, no! Force churches and sex businesses (bars, porn theatres, etc.) to be built on the outskirts of the city.

First, it will keep kids away from them, and keep the priests and pederasts - oops, pastors - away from the kids.

Second, only those who *really* believe strongly will make the effort to go out that far. It will weed out the false christians from the real ones.

Third, it will make it easier for priests and pastors to spend money - oops, time - with sinners and bring the people closer to their frock - oops, flock.

Finally, it will reduce the number of trips their mutual customers make. The pent get released and then repent for the least.


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Answer 8

Exposing children to religion is an inexcusable crime. Churches should only be located in non-residential areas and surrounded by strip joints and adult bookstores as a cushion between them and neighborhoods where children live.

Answer 9

Lets take a look in the jails and see how many sex offenders were ministers? (not many)

Unfortunately, the world is the master of sexual perversion, not the church. So I dont see how youre going to keep your kids out of the world.

Answer 10

You might consider closing schools or family homes first. Maybe you should get some good hard cold facts before you jump to such suggestions..

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Systems was developed by the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Human Services in partnership with the States to collect annual statistics on child maltreatment from State child protective services agencies. For the year 2001, it was found that approximately 903,000 children were victims of child maltreatment, 10 percent of whom (or 90,000) were sexually abused. It also found that 59 percent of the perpetrators of child abuse or neglect were women and 41 percent were men.[i]

In 2001, clinical child psychologist Wade F. Horn reported on the work of researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. The researchers found that nearly 20 percent of low-income women, recruited through family planning, obstetrical or gynecological clinics, had experienced child sexual abuse.

Horn summarized the researchers’ findings on poor women as follows: “Family friends and acquaintances compose the largest group of perpetrators (28 percent), followed by such relatives as uncles and cousins (18 percent), stepfathers (12 percent), male siblings (10 percent), biological fathers (10 percent), boyfriends of the child’s mother (9 percent), grandfathers and stepgrandfathers (7 percent), and strangers (4 percent).” Horn was struck by the fact that 10 percent were biological fathers and only 4 percent were strangers. “Which means,” he said, “86 percent of the perpetrators were known to the family, but were someone other than the child’s father.”[ii]

According to Dr. Garth A. Rattray, about the same incidence of abuse occurs among all the socio-economic classes. For example, he reports that “about 85 percent of the offenders [of child sexual abuse] are family members, babysitters, neighbors, family friends or relatives. About one in six child molesters are other children.” Unlike the first study cited, Rattray reports that most of the offenders are male.[iii]

It is obvious that children are much more likely to be sexually abused by family members and friends than by anyone else. This suggests that if preventative measures are to work, they must begin in the home, and not someplace else.

Answer 11

That is nonsence! You cannot blame all churches for what happens in some. There are far more un disclosed rapests and molesters in the homes surrounding the churches than what may or may not be in the local Churches. Are you in Church? IF you aren't ..... you need to be! And repent. It is not the Christian who commits those sins, but the false self proclaimed christians who is not one, and does not have a relationship with God, but with satan.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.