Another Voice: ‘Affair’ involving clergy is really sexual abuse

When I hear the media report a pastor’s sexual sin as an “affair,” it awakens a deep well of despair within me, remembering my own “brush with the devil.” Simple, lax descriptions such as, “falling from grace,” or “an act of indiscretion,” completely miss the mark on what is happening to religious communities throughout the world.
After my “indiscretion” with my pastor, I learned it was not an affair. There was no consent. It was merely an illusion of a consensual relationship when once we understand who is responsible to keep appropriate boundaries and why.

http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/another-voice/another-voice-affair-involving-clergy-is-really-sexual-abuse-20160407