Posted on 10/20/2014 8:25:57 AM PDT by walford
“Since when is a crime a disability?” asked Jeff Herrity. His son, Brian was a victim of child molestation by Catholic priest, Gil Gustafson from 1977 to 1982, Brian was ten years old when the abuse began. “If that is the case, everyone in prison should be disabled”, said Herrity. This was thirty years ago, in 1983, Gustafson was convicted of molesting Brian and was sentenced to a forty dollar fine, ten years of probation, and six months in jail, he only served four and a half months and was released. The abuse “mentally and physically destroyed” him. Brian died in 1995 at 28. It is estimated that Gustafson abused between four and fifteen victims. In 2002, Officials in Rome sentenced Gustafson to a life of prayer and penance. In July of 2006, Gustafson was declared disabled and collects disability checks in addition to the support the Pension for Priests gives him. Gustafson also runs his own ‘Leadership’ consulting firm and the church nudges clients his way. So, disability, a church pension, and his own firm, yeah, he’s living the life of a frugal priest, pardon me, ex, child molesting priest.
An assist professor at Rutgers University of Law is saying that pedophilia should be protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The people with the mental disorder pedophilia should not be discriminated against, because they were possibly abused as children. She also claims that pedophilia might possibly be genetic, neurochemical, or neuroanatomic. There have been some clear distinctions made between pedophilia and child molestation. Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to prepubescent children, that is not acted upon. It is just the desire. However, if a pedophile acts on his/her sexual desires, then it becomes child molestation, therefore, a crime. Most people use the terms interchangeably, but there is a difference.
In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. Since then, there has been a slow, progressive move toward making LGBT more and more main stream. Now they have taken over the stream and are trying to drown anyone who is straight, Christian, and disagrees with them. If God meant for us to bang anything, we would all have both working parts. Having a government that promotes the militant LGBT agenda, particularly by not defining sexual orientation, is making it easier to introduce pedophilia as a sexual orientation and not a sexual deviancy. In 2003, a group of mental health professionals formed a group called B4U-ACT to redefine pedophilia as a sexual orientation, ‘minor attracted people’ or MAP. Their goal is to get MAPS protected under the same laws as LGBT. There is an underlying progression to sexualize children at younger and younger ages by promoting the idea that normal friendships are actually sexual attraction. Once that idea is accepted, pedophilia will be accepted. I guess pedophilia will be removed as a mental disorder and they will lose their disability status.
It could be worse, we could live in Greece where pedophilia, compulsive gambling, pyromania, peeping, kleptomania, fetishism, exhibitionism, and sadomasochism are recognized disabilities.
Thus, regardless of whether the mental health community changes its perspective toward pedophilia, the community's perspective as expressed in the law should not. Persons under the age of 16 or 18 cannot legally consent to sex and those who would violate this by forcing or manipulating a minor child into having sex should still be prosecuted.
People will have all kinds of negative urges; that doesn't mean you indulge them. And when you do so and victimize others, you belong in jail.
Rather based on a “sinful lifestyle choice.”
...and the Democrat Party just added another voting block to their pervert base.
It is a voting block they are trying desperately to pry away from its historically established home in the libertarian party.
The Democrats are playing a disgusting game of catch up.
Used to be common sense knowledge, now, sexually abusing a weaker member of society is a "right". Please, someone, point me to the off ramp from this culture.
I think they need to add another B for Bestiality, an I for Incest and an N for Necrophilia.
I mean, as long as we’re throwing away all inhibitions and taboos, social mores, criminal sexual behavior and perversions.
GB²LTIN
They can make any declaration they want to: somebody tries to molest my kids, they die by flamethrower.
Yep..LGBTP from now on that’s what it should be called.
The Planned a parenthood has been including sado-masochism in their sex education classes, maybe you should include that, too.
Do you think that there is an element of sado-masochism in long term abusive relationships? Is there a real difference?
This is exactly where the very dangerous lgbt propaganda leads. It becomes a self justification of whatever horrid sexual desires and urges a person may have and removes any barrier to them feeling compelled not to indulge them and anyone who dares oppose the indulgence of them becomes a bigot. It also is at the very basic level a denial of freewill which is a denial of liberty.
It's getting real close, Claire.
My kids are grown, but my granddaughter is 5 years old. Anyone who molests her will die a violent death.
“B” = Bestiality ...
Because, as the great philosopher Andrew “Dice” Clay reminds us, there is no “Bi”.
I regularly post stories about pedophile priests... and the FR Catholic hit squad attacks me. They know the truth. They know that their church is corrupt to the core, and they don't care.
Rape of any kind should be returned to its correct status as a capital offense. Convicted rapists should be subject to the death penalty ESPECIALLY pedophile priests who hide behind the church while they rape children.
I don’t know if I’d go as far to say the the Catholic Church is “corrupt to the core” but it does baffle me why the parents of molested children would only report these crimes to the Church and not the police.
If your kid gets molested by a gas station attendant, would you only report this to Exxon and leave the corporation to handle it?
Any bureaucracy is going to be motivated to protect their own.
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