I agree, but this does no mean the attraction must always bear as great a temptation. There is no cure for alcoholism, but there are many who overcome it. There is no cure for diabetes, yet there is treatment.
Yea, the solution is going to be in controlling their sex drives, thus saving alot of young kids in the process.
Well, that is society as a whole…If you look at incidents where adult men have sex with underage females, most of society wants the guy hung on a tree, but when it involves a female adult having sex with an underage boy, the reaction is much more muted. I think this is because boys do not hold sex in the same regard as females, boys just see it as an act that feels good, females, especially young females see it as VERY important, emotional connection between 2 people, they dont view the sex act in the same way at all, the female is more concerned with the emotional side and the ‘inner feelings’ of it versus just the physical side of it.So nice that the first reaction of some is to defend homosexuality instead of the victim??
This gay rights nonsense has gotten so far out of hand, as has the double standard of when underage girls vs young boys are abused.
An earlier post sent me to check out this b4u-act group. I think your suggestion of chemical therapy might be a good one, especially combined with counseling and, God-willing, spiritual help. Such a one should never be around children alone, but such a person who took this path should be given the respect due the choices made contrary to desire and temptation.
…which means what, exactly? Churches will be forced to officiate marriages between adults and children? Pedophile marriage cakes? Please. You do realize that many states and localities already offer protections based upon sexual orientation - I have yet to see one that protects pedophiles. Our society is collectively hysterical about child safety. Your predictions will not come to pass in any foreseeable iteration of the U.S. I can imagine.
And an alcoholic is always an alcoholic, no matter how many hours of counseling they get. That does not mean treatment programs to help them abstain are not worthwhile.
You do realize that counseling people to abstain but not necessarily to change their attractions is the official approach of the official, approved ministry for homosexuals in the Catholic Church? I don’t think there is any official “pedophile” ministry but I can’t imagine the approach would be much different. “Conversion” ministries are the domain of evangelical protestants.
True, but it’s already happening as Christians keep God confined to the walls of a Church because some in the outside world might be offended.
I dont know what our society will look like at this time, or how churches will react to this, but I doubt a 40 yr old will be able to marry a 6 yr old, even if pedophile laws are changed in anyway, there must be a line somewhere.
I find your comment interesting considering that the abuse was attributed to homosexuality in the very first post.So nice that the first reaction of some is to defend homosexuality instead of the victim??
This gay rights nonsense has gotten so far out of hand, as has the double standard of when underage girls vs young boys are abused.
That should be the argument, and it’s a pretty compelling one. I frown on equating homosexuality and pedophilia. Calling someone a pedophile seems to be a card that people play, sort of like calling someone a nazi or screaming racism.
Well, look at the majority of these cases, when young boys are abused, (Im talking about ages from infant to 10-12 years old)…99.9% of the time, it is an adult MAN who is doing the abusing, in fact, Ive never heard of a case where an adult women sexually assaults a young boy…it is always an adult man, I think this is important to keep in mind.So nice that the first reaction of some is to defend homosexuality instead of the victim??
This gay rights nonsense has gotten so far out of hand, as has the double standard of when underage girls vs young boys are abused.
It is a myth that women don’t sexually abuse children. Current stats say around 10% of abuse being by women, but it is suspected that the numbers are much higher because many times women aren’t caught and/or reported. I saw a documentary of women in prison for sexual abuse several years ago. The stories of what these women did to their own children was sickening.
It’s in the past, so you’d need a time machine, but the age of consent in Delaware until 1880 was…seven.
“Always”?
which is why I asked for a future date (besides, in your example, a 40-year-old man molesting a 7-year-old boy would never have been tolerated in practice anyway). In western nations, age of consent on a wide range of issues has almost inexorably increased over time. Sexual age of consent is not really an exception there, as your example shows. The decrease in voting age from 21 to 18 in the 1970’s was a big exception to that (as was the decrease in drinking age until that was abruptly reversed back to 21 in the 1980’s.)
Because most gay men think this is just as disgusting as you do.
You seem to believe that gay men are all paedophiles, yet you are pro death penalty. Jesus never said anything about homosexuality, but he did say, “Thou shall not kill”. I understand the human temptation for justice, but we are meant to moderate the impulse to kill, whether state mandated or not. The Cathecism urges that the DP only be used for safety reasons basically. “The cases in which execution of the offender is an absolute necessity 'are very rare, if practically nonexistent”.
They - along with pedophiles, abortionists and terrorists - strengthen my commitment to being cautiously pro-death penalty.
He did not say he was pro-death penalty, I believe he said that in particular cases the option of the death penalty is compelling. Moreover, Jesus was a Jew who followed the mosaic law to the tee, thus he must have believed in the morality that it expressed on issues such as homosexuality . . . . etc.
