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How shocking that there are so many UU's in the readership of Salon!
I was a UU high school group advisor for several years. I have found that most people who worked on a serious level with teenagers were extremely thoughtful and pro-boundary. The UUA in general has taken many steps in developing curriculums and guidelines for working with children of all ages. In fact, OWL was preceded by a much looser and more I'm-Okay-You're-Okay, let-it-all-hang-out curriculum called AYS and was developed as a more conservative approach.
In any church, or other institution, some of the people who are attracted to working with teens have major boundary issues, or are even pedophiles. There were teachers in my high school who slept with students, and it was often swept under the rug. And consider how the Catholic Church dealt with this very issue.
How lucky for LW that she is part of a church where there are already procedures and guidelines in place to deal with this issues in an above-board way.
