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?

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