Really…because it certainly feels like an attack. Although only unless you have been a victim of this can you TRULY understand how damaging it is.
Without going into TMI for a public message board, I fully understand this.
But no, I would no advocate breaking the seal of confession. But I’m not advocating being all nambe pamby with these people. “Oh…it’s not your fault…you have a disease…” That type of thinking makes me sick.
If they act on it ONCE…It’s a CRIME!
Agreed.
Going back to my very first post on this thread (#16):
Acting on that pedophilia is both a crime and a grave sin.
(snip)
Having said that, to repeat,
Acting on that pedophilia is both a crime and a grave sin. Society must have the appropriate laws in place to severely sanction ones who would be tempted to act on their desire. Society must take action, in the sad event that it does happen…to restore the correct order and to protect future victims. It goes without saying that society should not be so “tolerant” as to allow such grave moral disorders to happen in the name of “tolerance.”
Let’s not be soft about it. It’s not “oh they slipped…” It’s they acted on it and destroyed a life. But most people can’t truly understand how it is to be…let’s say 3 years old and the man who is supposed to be raising you…and teaching you about life is violating you.
Yup.
And child porn just adds fuel to their fire…why is it even allowed? And regular porn that dresses up women as young kids… It starts a very dangerous fuel/fire.
Agreed. And viewing / possession of kiddie porn is a felony (at least in this country). No argument with that at all.
In fact, I don’t have an argument with the concept where you have a 20 or 30 something year old cop acting as a honey pot in order to snag one of these folks.
Are you say that God created men to desire young kids? And they have no control over it?
Hardly.
It’s hard…but yes I believe my abuser has the right to reconciliation with God in the confession–without that seal being broken. In fact it’s what I pray for him (and it’s about all I can pray for him).
But what I don’t advocate is this soft approach to it…has that helped any? Really? When we let people know that those thoughts are gravely disordered…that if you have them you HAVE to seek help immediately. Only then will we get the seriousness of this across. And then maybe get these statistics to drop.
The text of yours that I bolded is exactly the point I’m trying to, obliquely, get at.
The men in the pulpits need to love their flocks enough to boldly and unambiguously shout that ANY sexual behavior outside of a one man - one woman relationship are gravely disordered. Whether that is a couple of young adults living together, whether it is teenagers at the Catholic high school snogging behind the school between classes, whether it is Adam and Steve and their civil union, or whether it is this most disgusting crime.
While the side of hedonism has been pushing and pushing and pushing for decades, now, the ones who are supposedly the “good guys” have been too concerned with being “nice” – and now perversion of all sorts is socially acceptable (and those who support actual Christian sexual morals are seen as being “haters”)
Mark my words, if it doesn’t stop, pedophilia will be decriminalized. DSM-5 is going to lump pedophilia together with hebephilia (pedophilia is a desire for pre-pubescent kids while hebephilia is a desire for pubescent ones). By the time DSM-6 is released in a few years, it will be off the books,
if this group has its way:
If a small group of Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s bible of mental illnesses — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.
The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine “ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process” and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.
The trouble is that you’ve got to set the gospel standard for sex…to prevent the above from gaining any more of a foothold. But you have to do so in such a way that somebody would be willing to try to get help before it’s too late.
(BTW, much of what I wrote in post #16 is almost taken word-for-word from the catechism 2357-2359. I substituted one key word…)
