King said the dream of her father would never be realized as long as churches stay silent about poverty and injustice. Next year's conference will be held in June in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The LDC is the professional organization for deaconesses who completed the education program of the Lutheran Deaconess Association at Valparaiso. Sexual misconduct by clergy spreading, says counselor About 10 percent of the nation's clergy have been or are engaged in sexual misconduct, says a Presbyterian minister who served as a confidential clergy counselor for 19 years. Several factors affect the rising incidence of clergy extramarital sex or affairs, Rediger says.
Clergy are human beings.
They are affected by the seductiveness of increased sexual promiscuity. Secrecy and unexplained private events can be dangerous.