text: In a certain sense, it doesn't matter whether it is 7% or 2%.  The offenders were/are priests, persons whom we have been taught to believe (perhaps erroneously) are "other Christs".  These are the folks who were supposed to direct us in the ways of salvation and protect us from the Evil One.  There's no comparison there with public school teachers, or even our parents, regardless of percentages.  Perhaps even worse are the sins of the hierarchy.  There were no burning sexual urges driving them.  They simply wanted to protect the institutional church at the expense of the Church, the People of God.  Talk about misplaced priorities.