Like the writer, I agree that it's difficult to disagree with the concept of the registry. But the way it's been put into practice has been insanely ridiculous..
Just as priests are denied their sexuality; which is as natural to human behavior as anything could be, many republicans are brought up under a right wing conservative fundamentalist christian ideaology that demonizes human sexuality. They are taught that sex outside of marriage is bad, homosexuality is bad, masturbation is bad; even that thoughts of sexual behavior is bad.After years of repressing natural tendencies these individuals who have been unable to find a healthy outlet for their sexual activity with a consenting adult prey on children in the hopes that because they are children they can keep their "shameful & sinful" sexual behavior a secret.The truth is that liberals are allowed to express themselves sexually with consenting adults and are not branded by their peers as evil, or backslidden, or destined for hell because of it.Since their sexual needs and desires are fulfilled with consenting adults they have no need to prey on children to meet their needs because they have nothing to hide and no unfulfilled sexual desire.I do not believe that these people start out as pedophiles or intend to become pedophiles. They seek only a release for their natural sexual desires and since their peers have denied them any healthy expresion of them they resort to trying to conceal their sexual activity by exploiting children whom they believe they can control enough to keep their "dirty little secret".There are pedophiles in the liberal community but this arises from people who have become so perverse or devoid of any morality or social obligations that they do not percieve anything as being immoral. Such as egypto-cabalists like Aleister Crowley or Timothy Leary. Or they are socio psychopaths or often victims of child abuse themselves with ongoing mental health issues.I do not mean for this post to be all inclusive and I acknowledge that there are many pedophiles who may fall outside these categories.I believe that regardless of how these individuals became criminally perverted they should be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.Be they republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, athiests, agnostics, christians, ect...The church should not shelter them, government should not shelter them, communities should not shelter them, and family should not shelter them.If they do the crime they must do the time.For people to ignore that priests have a higher rate of pedophilia than others is to invite continued abuse of children. The church, the government, we the people must not attempt to ignore potential avenues that lead to this perversion.Only by addressing these issues openly will we ever be able to resolve them. For you can kill them all and that does not prevent the next bunch. It is like treating the symptoms of a disease and not the disease itself.There has been a high rate of pedophilia in the GOP in the last few decades and we should not ignore this either. That is not to say all republicans are pedophiles, just as not all liberals are gay.
It doesn't protect kids as much as people hope it does. Sure you can warn kids about the sex offender so they don't go near him, but what about the offenders who operate outside of their home area? Do they think they are incapable of driving to the school with a pedo van? It isn't even the creepy neighbor who does the most molesting, that is a domestic issue. It also raises the question, are they admitting to letting an unreformed and dangerous person out of jail? This list ruins the lives of people who just got into situations a moral person could find themselves in. They could take a piss in public and get on it. Say a young man is 18 years old and his girlfriend slightly younger and they have sex and the father reports it, he might get on the list depending on the laws of the area. During divorce a spouse might lie and accuse someone of molesting the children. These people are the ones getting f**ked. They would have to redo the list to include only child predators for it to be of any use to parents.
booksnmore4youJan 29, 2009
All very valid arguments worth considering. However, the title is misleading. She is arguing for reforms to the system, not calling it all stupid.
amyvernonJan 29, 2009
Like the writer, I agree that it's difficult to disagree with the concept of the registry. But the way it's been put into practice has been insanely ridiculous..
Closed AccountJan 30, 2009
Just as priests are denied their sexuality; which is as natural to human behavior as anything could be, many republicans are brought up under a right wing conservative fundamentalist christian ideaology that demonizes human sexuality. They are taught that sex outside of marriage is bad, homosexuality is bad, masturbation is bad; even that thoughts of sexual behavior is bad.After years of repressing natural tendencies these individuals who have been unable to find a healthy outlet for their sexual activity with a consenting adult prey on children in the hopes that because they are children they can keep their "shameful & sinful" sexual behavior a secret.The truth is that liberals are allowed to express themselves sexually with consenting adults and are not branded by their peers as evil, or backslidden, or destined for hell because of it.Since their sexual needs and desires are fulfilled with consenting adults they have no need to prey on children to meet their needs because they have nothing to hide and no unfulfilled sexual desire.I do not believe that these people start out as pedophiles or intend to become pedophiles. They seek only a release for their natural sexual desires and since their peers have denied them any healthy expresion of them they resort to trying to conceal their sexual activity by exploiting children whom they believe they can control enough to keep their "dirty little secret".There are pedophiles in the liberal community but this arises from people who have become so perverse or devoid of any morality or social obligations that they do not percieve anything as being immoral. Such as egypto-cabalists like Aleister Crowley or Timothy Leary. Or they are socio psychopaths or often victims of child abuse themselves with ongoing mental health issues.I do not mean for this post to be all inclusive and I acknowledge that there are many pedophiles who may fall outside these categories.I believe that regardless of how these individuals became criminally perverted they should be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.Be they republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, athiests, agnostics, christians, ect...The church should not shelter them, government should not shelter them, communities should not shelter them, and family should not shelter them.If they do the crime they must do the time.For people to ignore that priests have a higher rate of pedophilia than others is to invite continued abuse of children. The church, the government, we the people must not attempt to ignore potential avenues that lead to this perversion.Only by addressing these issues openly will we ever be able to resolve them. For you can kill them all and that does not prevent the next bunch. It is like treating the symptoms of a disease and not the disease itself.There has been a high rate of pedophilia in the GOP in the last few decades and we should not ignore this either. That is not to say all republicans are pedophiles, just as not all liberals are gay.
ryan83189Jan 30, 2009
It doesn't protect kids as much as people hope it does. Sure you can warn kids about the sex offender so they don't go near him, but what about the offenders who operate outside of their home area? Do they think they are incapable of driving to the school with a pedo van? It isn't even the creepy neighbor who does the most molesting, that is a domestic issue. It also raises the question, are they admitting to letting an unreformed and dangerous person out of jail? This list ruins the lives of people who just got into situations a moral person could find themselves in. They could take a piss in public and get on it. Say a young man is 18 years old and his girlfriend slightly younger and they have sex and the father reports it, he might get on the list depending on the laws of the area. During divorce a spouse might lie and accuse someone of molesting the children. These people are the ones getting f**ked. They would have to redo the list to include only child predators for it to be of any use to parents.
Closed AccountJan 30, 2009
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