Everyone gives lip service to being 'concerned' about pedophiles.
It's the social equivalent of being 'opposed to war' or 'being glad
no one got hurt in the tornado.'
But the way people think about child rapists and child abusers
is stilted and way off track.
The average person (especially due in part to Fox News and
churches) believe most pedophiles to be homosexual, and of
course believes that most (if not all) homosexuals are actually
pedophiles.
But even when molestation is same-sex based, it has little to do
with orientation. Seeing children as sexualized objects, or seeing
them as capable of consenting to such behavior, is a pathological
disorder. A sickness of mind and spirit. It is in no way connected
to homosexuality or heterosexuality.
Actions of abuse are about abuse; lust, frustration, rage, possession.
They denigrate the object of desire, even as the perpetrator
reconciles the incident as 'loving' and 'consensual,' or beneficial
to the child in some way.
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| What'cha covering for, Bill? Secrets, or stupidity? |
(More precisely, homosexuality is not a pathological disorder;
and even hundreds of years of churches' hateful rhetoric and
indoctrination cannot change that. This is supposedly no longer
the Dark Ages, but many people's minds are dealing with the
information that was disproven and outdated long ago.)
But because people see homosexuality as an illness, they easily
make the jump that--as bad as they have been erroneously taught
about the nature of homosexuals is--surely child rape must be in
our wheel house.
Well, here's a newsflash. Homosexuals are attracted to adults
just like heterosexuals are attracted to adults. Those that are
sick are sick; they are not reflective on every other homosexual
on the planet, just as no thinking person would attribute one or
two black men's actions to every other black man on the planet,
nor the actions of a few women to every other woman on the planet,
and so on.
(And if Boy Scouts of America is such an upstanding organization, why
did they feel compelled to cover up over 500 cases of child sexual abuse,
refusing to report the incidents to police over two decades? **
Were they looking out for their members, or were they keeping secrets for
powerful married members of the community, helping keep their group
and funding intact, and doing their best Catholic-style face saving?)
Character is individual; we all are to be judged solely on our
independent actions and honor, not on surmised prejudices.
And it isn't openly gay people who are the threat to anything!
(Hence the ridiculousness of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, or the Boy
Scouts ban on (openly) gay scouts and masters, or DOMA, etc.
Those of us who are content and free with who we are not the
ones who typically do wrong to others. It's the duplicitous
'upstanding citizen and 'pillar-of-the-community' who's hiding
secrets and living a double life you need to be worried about.
All those 'too good to be true,' obsessed with public appearances,
religiously-obsessed, goofy sumbitches who are the real threat.
The ones who have manufactured their entire lives to appear
to be everything people want them to be, for the express purpose
of drawing in victims, taking advantage of them, making them
question themselves, threatening them with the perpetrator's
ability to make things difficult for them, and who dispute a
victim's credibility if caught (since no one in the town wants to
believe the truth behind their 'perfect neighbor/congregant/father.'
It's not the devil (stereotype, mythologized, bogeyman, etc.)
that you think you know that is the problem. It's the devil that
made you ignore them; usually the same ones who rally the troops
to crucify us self-loving gays and lesbians.
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