We do not send pedophiles to prison to change their attractions.
We send pedophiles to prison first to protect children from their predations. I don’t believe in rehabilitation can be forced on a criminal. They either want to change or they don’t. Prison is about punishment not changing people.
Secondly we to try to deter them from yielding to their attractions in the future.
Some of the scientists say pedophilia is a sexual orientation, meaning that it's unchangeable, regardless of how much jail time or beatings or therapy someone is dealt."
Personally I agree with this and believe that if a man or woman is convicted three times or more of molesting children it should be a life sentence with no parole.
I am sad when I hear the mindless saying: “You can’t legislate morality.” We have always legislated morality.
This article shows where we are headed when we redefine marriage. Can a person marry his sister? How about brother or grandmother? The question is not do we draw a line concerning morality but rather where do we draw that line?
Maybe a child should be able to marry her grandfather - then when he dies the granddaughter could receive SS for life. Maybe she should marry many seniors and collect all of their SS payments for the rest of her life.
This fall in Maine we get to vote for the 4th or 5th time on homosexual marriage. God help us.
I agree with most of what you said in #2, except for this:
“......and believe that if a man or woman is convicted three times or more of molesting children it should be a life sentence with no parole”
That is two too many victims before putting the pervert away forever. If proven without a doubt in court, one time is enough to remove the menace from innocent children.