Posted on 08/16/2011 6:24:28 AM PDT by wizard1358
It’s simple: execute pedophiles and rapists
In your call for stern punishment of “sex offenders” doubtless you are thinking of those who commit forcible rape or of adults who force their sexual attentions on pre-pubescent children. You forget, perhaps, that in most of these United States as 17 year old who has sex with his 15 year old paramour, both regarding it as consensual, though the state does not, is a “sex offender”, too, and in many states is put under the same disabilities of not residing near schools, playgrounds or daycare facilities as those who commit the vile acts for which you propose execution.
Or do you, perhaps, want Sharia-style executions and honor killings of those who commit fornication? I trust not. Certainly fornication is a sin, but Christian penitentials have traditionally penanced it less severely than murder, sodomy or adultery, and our society does not seem to be minded to make it a crime, well not unless one of the fornicators is below some arbitrarily determined age which has no relationship to sexual maturity.
Some things are defined as “sex offenses” that should not be.
But, yes, forcible rape, or rape of a child (I do not include older teenagers in this group for statutory rape purposes) deserve hanging, IMO.
I don’t care if people fornicate; that’s between them and God, and the other person.
There’s nothing complicated in what I wrote, why make it so?
All I’m saying is that after they’ve served their time, they should have no restrictions placed on their movements or living arrangements, any more than any other released felon. If they are going to be considered dangerous for life, keep ‘em locked up.
It might make society look a little more closely at what is really criminal, and what, as you so quaintly put it, is just sinful. Not that I disagree with you on the terminology.
This reminds me of someone who buys a home near the airport, knowing it’s there, then complains about the noise, and tries to get the airport shut down.
If the halfway house was there before the day care center, they shouldn’t have opened where they did.
Mark
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