Posted on 03/23/2011 10:17:34 AM PDT by bkopto
A football legend who was convicted over under age sex with a prostitute, has told an interviewer 'everybody does it', adding the case had left him 'screwed'. Ex New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who was caught paying a 16-year-old girl $300 to have sex with him in a hotel room, made the outrageous comments in a interview for Fox News last night.
Taylor, 52, was sentenced yesterday to six years probation and was forced to sign the sex offenders register.
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It’s not my church, genius.
How is any of that a “justification” for the indefensible?
He IS a sex offender - that whore is quite the visual offense.
He did raise a valid point, in that even ID means nothing adn is not a defense.
Given that false ID is everywhere, short of a DNA and records check, how can any male protect himself from such charges if he is lied to by a female. Oh, just so as not to offend Obama, let’s make that ‘lied to by a female or a male.”
You are a fine one to be decrying the rancor on this thread when you are the one who initiated it all the way back at Reply #4.
I think you should be made to donate $300 to FR for posting that photo!! Sorry, but something about her face gives me the heebie-jeebies.
It clearly proves that some Catholic FReepers follow the same MO: Point to other organizations that also molest children as a deflection and or excuse of their own church’s misgivings.
Here’s an example on this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2693400/posts?page=78#78
Let me make this simple for you. It’s is akin to a bank robber complaining to the judge that he shouldn’t be scorned for his crime due to the fact that other criminals have also robbed banks.
“Everybody does it” is a vile excuse to a very evil crime against children.
Oh I’m sorry, I thought this was a forum where we discuss and share ideas.
You’re just trolling now.
I think debating ideas is what this site is all about although you will always have abuse in everything constructed by man—it is the nature of man that is immutable—unlike what Marx thinks: Nature of man does NOT evolve and you can not reach “utopia” here on earth. There is scientific proof of that.
Progressives count on people getting discouraged and giving up....it is why the constant push and their success in promoting the illogical, unworkable theory of Moral Relativism.
Man is lazy and will give up in a lot of cases....You see it with these pseudo=Christian churches with homosexual pastors.....enough already...people get sick of being labeled haters and bigots and give up the fight and allow their children to be told lies and half-truths so that the atheist worldview will dominate. The destruction of the family unit creates people who do not believe in lasting relationships and any Objective Truth also.
When the natural family is destroyed, all Objective Truth will be destroyed for it is the foundation of order and logic, freedom and self-sufficiency in cultures. Homosexuality and perversion is an attack on the moral foundation of children and perverts their worldview which can never be based on Natural Law Theory—where all logic, reason, and science originates. Cicero would call this removal from Natural Law Theory a gross injustice....Unjust law which will always devolve into chaos. It is what ruined the Republic of Rome in Cicero’s estimation (Pillar of Iron).
16 is a minor, 19 is an adult.
Very different things.
> “16 is a minor, 19 is an adult. Very different things.”<
Different, yes, but not a difference comparable to that between life and death.
Apply your standard universally. The selective face-rubbing is what many find irritating. Case in point, when female public school teacher molests an under age boy, what comments do we see on FR? “Definitely not guilty!”
It is always easy to bash the biggest target, but let’s not forget there are plenty of abusers who need serious punishment.
Finally, at what point is forgiveness given? Don’t Americans and Christians generally believe in redemption? With many of the abuse cases going back 40 years and the perpetrators long dead, why keep dragging it out? When is enough enough? What more reparations do you want? One doesn’t see this focused attention on abusers from any other category.
Just think about.
I don’t do it. So your premise fails, Larry.
I do not see that as "Everyone's doing it so what's the harm" at all...which is what LT basically said.
I stand by what I said.
Egads! Gloria Allred is better looking! It is the end of the world!
Can someone please get LT on tape supporting Obama?
If there is anything long-time members of FR know, it’s that I can debate like an adult just fine. More importantly, there’s no need to waste time debating the silly and evidence-free assertion you have put forward.
That said, I’ll address your post 36, just to demonstrate the stupidity presented in it. Sometimes one likes to hit an easy target. What you’re doing is...
1. Taking one Catholic priest and making him the entire Catholic Church.
2. Taking words spoken by that priest meant to show how bigoted it is to judge someone as a pervert just because a vanishingly small percentage of their coworkers did the same thing (and wear certain clothing other people who commit the same crime don’t wear) turning them into “It’s just fine to be a child molester.”
To illustrate the absurdity you’re pushing, it’s as if you posted an account of a black man who had never committed a rape saying that a number of rapes are committed by whites, Hispanics and Asians and most women are raped by someone they know, and you pointed to it as “proof” that all blacks think it’s OK to commit rape because everybody does it. How do you think the mods would view that?
Twisting words, ascribing one person’s opinion to hundreds of millions, letting the media do your thinking for you...that’s not arguing like an adult in this universe. That’s liberalism and bigotry.
So, in as adult a manner as you deserve, I repeat: Get bent.
What are you doing about the molestation in public schools, which is ten times higher?
You know, other than getting on a high horse about less than 1% of priests?
You’re short on reading comprehension. The priest’s point was that the man’s prejudice against priests was unfounded, not that molestation is OK because people engage in it.
Actually...when it comes to consent...it varies by state.
Age of consent in many states is 16...and in Hawaii its 14 or 15...if the person is less than 5 years older (so<19/20)
In many states it is 17...or 18....with ranges on how old the "other person" can be varying.
For instance...in Texas where the consent age is 17, a Senior in High School who turns 18 during his senior year (as I did) and who has a sophomore as a girl friend who is 16...has a defense and likely won't get prosecuted if daddy gets ticked off that his little girl did the nasty...
But in North Dakota/Virginia...if you are 18...and they are 17...its a class A misdemeanor.
In Maine teens its OK for 15 YO to be with 19 YO...and in UTAH...its OK for a 16 YO to be with a 25 YO.
And no...I'm middle aged so I don't have a travel sheet...I just looked these up...;-)
Anyway...given that there are no hard and fast rules that apply across the board...it's wise for all young men to know the laws of their state...if of course they insist on acting immorally.
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