Hescominsoon
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I never said pedos aren't a threat..but the threat has been totally overblown. Rulings like this play on that fear and allow the continued usurping of our Constitution.Couple of thoughts here for everyone who has posted in this thread. I'm going to be blunt and shoot from the hip on this one:
1) You've been trolled. No offense to the O.P., but he tossed this bone in here and hasn't said jack all since. Waiting for all the dogs to come after the bone and start tearing each other to bits. This is a discussion forum, and yet the O.P. has not replied to this thread. I'm calling him out on that one. If I were a moderator, which I'm not, I'd be seriously looking into his post history to see if he does this a lot, although he could also genuinely be a concerned American trying to raise awareness of the issue.
2)
I would challenge that thinking. I spent my mid-late teen years in a small town outside Edmonton, AB. Now, I had at the time a gifting (the gift of foolishness?) that caused me to often come into contact with this sort of thing, but, of the fifteen teenage girls that I was friends with in that town, thirteen of them had been raped by family members before they were twelve. I do not say this lightly.
Pedophiles are more than just a "threat." Not if you are a young woman.
The other two (the non-raped girls) were cousins of mine. I am extremely blessed with a very thoroughly Christian family, where it didn't happen. As far as I could tell at a young age, it might happen in 10% of unsaved families. That's probably WAAAAY over the top to say, but where I was living, it sure felt like it.
I do feel that it is higher in non-religious families than religious ones, but I don't have (nor care to go looking for) stats on this.
These attacks are covered up by families through fear, be it fear of the family member, fear of the fallout if it comes out, fear of society's judgment, or sheer stupid hope that it just goes away.
The real threat of the pedophile, I'd say, isn't the ones on TV -- it's the ones in our homes, in our families.
Nowadays, I'm in much healthier circles. I know about 4 or 5 women in these healthier circles who were raped before they were 12. Usually this causes long-term psychological problems that they have to fight their whole lives. Go figure.
3) Comparing pastors to pedophiles is like comparing apples to water dogwood. Just saying.