text: David, my sentiments entirely.  For years discussions and deliberations and even blogs (such as this one) on this subject have been very toxic, with people talking past each other. Innuendo, stereotyping, over dramatizing, over generalizing, etc have been part and partial to the subject of child abuse, be it clerical, secular, or domestic. SNAP was organized during the days of panics over proposed Satanic cults engaging in child sex orgies, day care center sex abuse, recovered memory hysteria and fraud.  Regrettably this was at  a time of very significant sexual abuse of under aged by priests. 
  
  SNAP may have had some members with good intentions 25 years ago, but recently the leadership of SNAP has been associated with radical anti-Catholic bigotry and polemical street brawling. 
  
  Let us hope that a reorganized SNAP or some  new org of another name emerges that will work for the good of victims and be helpful to the Church in addressing the problems. Must not be angry all the time.