[ImaGraftedBranch]

That was what happened to my brother. Normal, all-american kid, baseball player, etc. Raped by a high-school teacher, and blackmailed him to keep quite to protect my Dad's reputation (well known in our city). This triggered years of destructive behavior. He succumbed to aids at an early age and died several years ago, after being a daily pennatant for the last six months of his life.

Homesexuality is not something that people are born with. SOMETHING HAPPENS, or SOMEONE CHOOSES. PERIOD. Either way, it goes against God and nature.

[Polycarp]

I have another friend from grade school, who was molested for several years as an early teen. Fortunately, he survived, is successful, and has raised a beautiful young family. But he is psychologically scarred for life, and he will never reach his full potential that his talents and abilities would have allowed, due to this severe trauma.

Homosexual predation of young male teenagers is rampant and culturally accepted in the homosexual movement, and it is irrefutably the ROOT CAUSE of the current crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.

Its no longer about just letting two consenting adults do whatever they want in the "privacy" of their own bedroom.

Theirs is an all out, full court press to stigmatize ANYONE who rejects the notion that homosexual behavior is intrinsically disordered, and to tear down ANY remaining legal constraints against their behavior, including predation of young teenagers.

Always remember the words of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

As an attorney for the ACLU Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-authored a report recommending that the age of consent for sexual acts be lowered to 12 years of age ("Sex Bias in the U.S. Code," Report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, April 1977, p. 102).

The paragraph reads as follows: "Eliminate the phrase "carnal knowledge of any female, not his wife, who has not attained the age of 16 years" and substitute a federal, sex-neutral definition of the offense.... A person is guilty of an offense if he engages in a sexual act with another person.... [and] the other person is, in fact, less than 12 years old..)"

[luckymom]

It happened to a friend in high school as well. A group of gay men moved into the house behind his, and watched my 16 y.o. friend in his swimming pool, lured him over, and the rest is his-story, and a sad one at that. This was in the mid-70's, it wasn't that uncommon in So. Cal even then.

[RAT Patrol]

A friend of mine's son was raped as a child by a neighbor kid. He ended up raping another kid himself and has been struggling with the issue for years. It messes kids up so badly.

[Fraulein]

He succumbed to aids at an early age and died several years ago

I am deeply sorry to hear about your loss. What a shame, really.

[Saundra Duffy]

So sorry about your brother. God bless you.

[GrandMoM]

....so sad. God be with you.

[razorbak]

I remember a young man whose life took a similar course because his father molested him regularly as a boy. He died an alcoholic, while his Dad portrayed himself as a fine upstanding church-going man in the community. This pervert exposed himself to my pastor friend's two girls. Just when my pastor friend and our associational director of missions were going to lower the boom on this sicko, he suddenly died of a heart attack. How many other people did this guy victimize before he croaked? Just one of the reasons why God created Hell.

[nosofar]

"Homesexuality is not something that people are born with. SOMETHING HAPPENS, or SOMEONE CHOOSES. PERIOD. Either way, it goes against God and nature. "

I doubt people actually 'choose' to be homosexual in the same sense they might choose what movie to go to. At best, though, homosexuality is a kind of deformity. Sure, homosexual behavior might be influenced by genetics but only in the same way alcoholism or obesity might be. Environment easily has as much do with it. I wonder how many homosexuals were abused as children or had a homosexual 'big brother' to indoctrinate them.

[Salvation]

So sorry about your brother. Through his penitence I know that he has received God's blessing.

God bless you and your family.

In dealing with the grief that such encounters inevitably perpetuate, click on my name and the check out the hotlink provided for Beginning Experience. You will find a group fairly close in your area.