Posted on 11/20/2021 6:31:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Deceased would be better.
Catholic Bishops were WAY too long committed to a dubious process of psychological and psychiatric evaluation, rehabilitation, and re-evaluation of consecrated priests with demonstrated or admitted histories of ephebophilia and associated abuse of young boys and lads.
Talk about ingrained.
As time wore in, these attractions and patterns of behavior proved all but impossible to root out.
The men given these supposed chances to reform themselves would have been much better served with programs of long-term isolation into cloistered groups dedicated to prayer and fasting, with deliberate and permanent separation from any related temptations.
As it happened, after too-short or woefully inadequate periods of so-called rehabilitation, they were not infrequently given clean bills of mental health that in retrospect smacked of varying degrees of wishful thinking, after which they were often inexplicably funnelled by their bishops back into the same pastoral, educational, athletic, etc., environments that gave rise to their initial sins and crimes. Thus the odds of recidivism and even worse abuse of young boys were perversely maximized.
There is no way we should ever fall for this siren song or permit academics to fool anyone ever again about the notion of soft-pedaling either the ingrained nature of the evil attractions or patterns of behavior, or the prospects for sufficient rehabilitation of, in particular, adult men whose backgrounds or individual histories show that they either are or have been in the throes of the horrific soul-killing scourge of ephebophilia.
Had to Google what “person-first language” is...
People-first language (PFL),[1] also called person-first language, is a type of linguistic prescription which puts a person before a diagnosis, describing what condition a person “has” rather than asserting what a person “is”. It is intended to avoid marginalization or dehumanization (either consciously or subconsciously) when discussing people with a chronic illness or disability. It can be seen as a type of disability etiquette but person-first language can also be more generally applied to any group that would otherwise be defined or mentally categorized by a condition or trait (for example, race, age, or appearance).
Person-first language avoids using labels or adjectives to define someone, using terms such as “a person with diabetes” instead of “a diabetic” or “a person with alcoholism” instead of “an alcoholic”. The intention is that a person is seen foremost as a person and only secondly as a person with some trait, which does not inevitably define their essence; it avoids essentializing the condition as their prime identity as a human being. Advocates of person-first language point to the failure to mentally separate the person from the trait as reinforcing a sense that both the trait and the person are inherently bad or inferior, leading to discrimination whilst also implicitly reinforcing a sense of permanency even regarding issues that are likely to be temporary. For example, a person with a substance use disorder has a fair chance of achieving long-term remission—many years in which they are healthy and productive—but calling them a “substance abuser” reinforces an unspoken sense that they are inherently and permanently tainted and casts doubt on maintenance of remission. (wiki)
They don’t need to fix what’s in their heads. They need their heads cut off.
American Worldview Inventory 2021- reported by a Christian Post reporter, Leah Marie Ann Klett, May 19, 2021 that 43% of millennials “don’t know, don’t care, don’t believe” God exists.
So they are trying to trick people on this matter as well.
So, bottom line- you agree with the change of word usage and calling them “sex offenders” is counter productive?
Just when you think the left can not get more perverse…
Because we’ve been convinced that being “nice” is a virtue and that it’s bad to be realistic about something and someone.
We have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt regardless of what kind of person they have proved themselves to be.
Because what kind of Christian are you to not be nice all the time or to not expect the best out of others all the time?
They will soon enough.
Well then, just call them "Repeat Sex Offenders," because that's where they're headed.
Or, ACSO.
That sounds like the orifice where the sun don't shine.
It makes it sound worse to me. “Convicted sex offender” is past tense. “Convicted adult who commits sexual offenses” sounds like an ongoing thing.
RE: “Convicted adult who commits sexual offenses”
CACSO for short. :)
Nope. The word change is silly pc BS. Next year they’ll have another one when they figure out that the new one is also stigmatizing.
In a better world, sex offenders should be called, “deceased.”
Sadly they cannot be rehabilitated.
His book should be in every school 5 to 12.
Criminals that do those things CANNOT be ‘rehabilitated’ they need to be exterminated and removed from society. They are useless Oxygen theifs.
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